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Hello, I'm Neil and hello I'm Faye. And hello I'm Faye and welcome to the English we speak. Now Faye here's a question for you if you you had some news, what would you do?

Mmm, I would tell someone of course.

Yes, but some good news, some amazing, incredible news about yourself.

Like, for example, I'm having a baby. Are you really?

Oh of course not but if you had exciting news like that how would you tell people?

I'd use social media tell all my friends tell everyone

in the office I would shout about it but not literally exactly which is why in

English we say we would shout it from the rooftops, which

means we would share some information publicly so everyone knows.

I guess this is how people shared important news before TV, radio and the internet had been invented.

Exactly, they would climb up somewhere high and shout it out.

Let's hear some examples. Congratulations for getting a first in your degree.

You should go and shout it from the rooftops.

I know you won the lottery, but don't shout it from the rooftops otherwise everyone

will be after your money. We all know Ming is in love with Geehan he's been

shouting it from the rooftops.

So to shout something from the rooftops means to tell everyone your good news.

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