E127 – How to Manage Awkward Situations with Luke’s English Podcast (P2)

🌟SPECIAL GUEST🌟 Much more special than Dan the Man (although he’s here too 😬), we’re joined by Luke from LEP and we talk about THREESOMES 3️⃣, POOING on walls 😲, taking BULLETS 🔫 and much much more! Some SERIOUS RnR vocab and lots of SPECIAL surprises for this SPECIAL guest! 😀 I know that’s a lot, but just keep CALM and keep on ROCKin’ baby! 👊

The RnR vocab that you will learn in today’s show:

I’m pumped. I pumped myself up just earlier on.
Sorry… I jumped the gun there.
Well I’ve never really wanted a threesome with you… so this is not… it’s not great news.
in order to get all the dirt on exactly what happened.
What happened?! Did they fall out with each other?
Yeah! Well not only is everything fine… you’ve dragged me into the situation too!
We’re gonna start rowing again!
Well anyway… regardless of what happens… and I’m not gonna ask you what actually went down.
just leave your child to like… take all of like the… the grief. So the grief… is like the criticism let’s
I’ll… I’ll just take the bullet as it were.
It has backfired before… because I remember one time I held the door open for someone…
And I’m… I don’t know how to deal with it…
So no half measures in something like this.
I would just say ‘Give it 5 minutes.’

RnR Grammar

Luke used some SERIOUS RnR grammar / vocab in today’s show when he said:

“I’ll… I’ll just take the bullet as it were”.

Why has he put ‘as it were’ at the end there? Is this a conditional? Is he crazy? The answer is… neither of them!

We sometimes use this to say ‘so to speak’ or to make what we say ‘less precise’, so in this case, I think it’s clear to say that Luke wasn’t really saying “I will take a bullet and happily get shot”, it was used in a metaphorical sense so to make it ‘less ‘precise’ he said ‘as it were’ at the end.

And THAT is RnR grammar…. (but kind of vocabulary) 😬