Sample: Hitch 1 Vocab
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AJ Hoge
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🗓️ 28 April 2009
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | First of all, swept off my feet. |
| 0:04.0 | He says, no woman wakes up saying, God, I hope I don't get swept off my feet today. |
| 0:10.0 | Swept off my feet is past tense. |
| 0:14.0 | Present would be sweep off my feet. |
| 0:18.0 | And this phrase, this idiom, it means to |
| 0:22.0 | make someone fall in love very deeply. |
| 0:27.1 | Usually we say a man sweeps a woman off her feet. |
| 0:33.4 | Sweep of course comes from like you have a broom. You're cleaning the floor and you sweep the floor. |
| 0:39.6 | But it has the idea that also of a man knocking a woman off her feet. |
| 0:46.8 | So you can imagine she's so in love she falls down, right? |
| 0:50.9 | She falls off her feet. She falls down and the man catches her. Right? This is the image that you want to imagine for this phrase. |
| 1:00.0 | The woman sees the man. She's so in love, she falls down and the man catches her. |
| 1:06.0 | He sweeps her off her feet, right? |
| 1:09.0 | He picks her up, he takes her off her feet. |
| 1:12.0 | So this phrase means a man makes a woman fall deeply in love, very quickly, very suddenly, |
| 1:22.0 | very strongly, he makes her fall in love. |
| 1:25.0 | So he's saying, no woman wakes up saying, in the morning, |
| 1:30.0 | I hope I don't, negative, I hope I don't get swept off my feet. |
| 1:34.4 | Which means every woman does want to be swept off her feet. |
| 1:39.7 | According to this character, he thinks every woman loves romance. |
| 1:44.6 | She might say she does not, but really she wants love. |
| 1:48.7 | That's the meaning of that sentence. |
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