Wet weekend
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🗓️ 11 July 2017
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
When can a wet weekend be dry? Find out with another authentic English expression
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from BBC Learning English. |
| 0:03.0 | To find out more, visit our website. |
| 0:06.0 | The English we speak. |
| 0:09.0 | From BBC learning English. |
| 0:11.0 | dot com. Hello I'm Faye. See Learning English. English. . . |
| 0:13.0 | Hello I'm Faye. |
| 0:15.0 | And this is the English we speak. |
| 0:17.0 | And hello, it's Rob here. |
| 0:19.0 | Good weekend, Faye, |
| 0:20.0 | Amazing. |
| 0:21.0 | The weather was great, so I went on a trip to the seaside. |
| 0:25.0 | And you were going camping, weren't you? |
| 0:27.0 | I was, but it turned out to be a bit of a wet weekend. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh no, you mean it rained?'s unlucky the sun was out all weekend here. |
| 0:36.6 | Oh well the weather was fine but I didn't go the car broke down again so I stayed at home doing DIY all weekend boring so a wet |
| 0:46.6 | weekend doesn't have to involve rain nope a wet weekend means a boring and |
| 0:52.1 | disappointing time. |
| 0:53.6 | And it doesn't have to be at the weekend either? |
| 0:56.7 | Correct. |
| 0:58.0 | This phrase just means the situation is boring, |
| 1:00.9 | just like a wet weekend is. You can also use the expression to describe boring people. Here are some examples. |
| 1:08.0 | That was a wet weekend. My friends were coming to stay but cancelled at the last minute. |
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