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dot com. Hello, this is the English.com. Hello, this is the English we speak. I'm Faye Faye

and hello I'm Rob.

Why have you brought a bowl of fruit into the studio?

I'm not feeling great and you know fruit is packed with vitamin C,

so I thought eating some would do me good.

I see. Well, I'm sorry you're not feeling great but we have got a

program to do and an English phrase to teach. If you don't mind I might just read a few lines from the script today to save my voice.

Perhaps I could just read the funny lines?

No, Rob. You can't just cherry pick what you want to say?

Cherry pick.

No, Fay, there aren't any cherries in my fruit bowl.

So I won't be picking any.

I wasn't referring to your fruit.

When you cherry-pick something, it means you choose only what's best or most desirable out of a group of things or a group of people.

But Rob, you're not going to do that are you?

Um, shall we hear some examples of other cherry pickers?

Josh says he cherry-picked the players for his football team based on their skills,

but I know it's because they were his friends.

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