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024: The Best Present You’ve Ever Gotten

Today we talk about the best present we’ve ever gotten, and define interesting words, terms, and phrases that come up in natural conversation. Learn the phrases ‘freaking out’, ‘big deal’, ‘to be up to it’, ‘nailed it’, ‘stand out’, ‘add up’, the difference between ‘implode’ and ‘explode’, and more!

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Show Notes:

  • David’s best Christmas: asking for an Atari and a Speak and Spell, and getting both
  • A ‘stretch’ goal’
  • What is ‘freaking out’?
  • Implode vs. explode
  • An amazing gift from Rachel’s childhood: a video camera
  • The term ‘on tape’
  • The term ‘big deal’
  • The phrase ‘to be up to it’
  • A wad of cash
  • What does the word ‘rouse’ mean, and how it is pronounced?
  • The phrase ‘nailed it’
  • The phrase ‘walk in the door’
  • Experience gifts, the gift of time
  • What does ‘stand out’ mean?  To ‘stand out from a crowd’?
  • The phrase ‘to add up’

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