Video - American English Words of the Week #3 - Phrases that Aren't Cool Anymore
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🗓️ 7 November 2014
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| 0:00.0 | Rolling, rolling, rolling. |
| 0:02.0 | Is it, okay. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, welcome back to Weekly Words. I'm Alicia and today we're going to talk about phrases that aren't cool anymore. |
| 0:11.0 | Woohoo! |
| 0:12.0 | I probably say a whole lot of these phrases, so I'm about to embarrass myself. |
| 0:15.0 | The first phrase is sweet. Oh, sweet's not cool anymore. |
| 0:19.0 | Sweet means cool. Sweet means something that's good. You might say, oh man, that skateboard trick you just did was sweet. |
| 0:28.6 | Groovy! I still say groovy. Um, groovy means cool, groovy means good. Um, it was used in the 70s when, you know, funky, groovy music was popular in a sentence like, |
| 0:40.3 | oh, hey, those are some groovy moves on the dance phone. |
| 0:46.3 | I don't know if we can use that. |
| 0:48.3 | Going steady. Going steady is kind of an old-fashioned phrase as well. |
| 0:52.3 | Going steady just means you're dating, someone who is dating someone else. Like me and Trisha are going steady. |
| 0:58.0 | It just means you're dating, you're a couple. |
| 1:00.0 | Not, oh, this is, this word is actually what the entire holiday of April Fool's Day is based around. |
| 1:08.0 | That's a lie. |
| 1:09.0 | Particularly, I would say, for junior high school students, this phrase is very popular. |
| 1:15.5 | They might say something like, hey, Steve thinks you're cute, not... |
| 1:21.6 | So in other words, it's often used as an insult. |
| 1:24.6 | Duh. |
| 1:25.6 | Oh, duh. Duh. Oh, duh. Duh. |
| 1:28.3 | Duh. |
| 1:29.3 | D is used when someone says something really stupid or something really obvious. |
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