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Hello everybody, welcome back to Let's Master English.
My name is Coach Shane.
Thank you so much for listening to my podcast. It's not my podcast, it's your podcast. These expressions that we learn and practice are your expressions.
People have asked me the questions and I'm just giving you the answers my explanations my interpretations and it is my honor.
Today's expression oh boy.
A slacker. A slacker.
That guy is a slacker.
Are you a slacker? Don't be a C.
K. E. R. A slacker is somebody who doesn't work hard. Yeah, a lazy guy, a slacker.
You know these people, they're everywhere!
Sometimes they're at your office.
Everybody is working hard, but there's one guy who just doesn't work.
He's always talking with people.
he's always printing something stupid he's always on Facebook he's always in the bathroom he's always doing something making coffee joking chatting he's not working sometimes you have a school project or a work project and and you do a lot of work and the other guy does a lot of but there's that one guy who Who doesn't do anything?
So why does a slacker mean somebody who doesn't work hard?
Well the idea is this.
Let's say our work is building the pyramids in Egypt.
And each of us must pull a huge stone up the pyramid to make it higher and higher and higher so when we pull the stone let's say there's a big stone and there's a rope R -O -P -E and if you're working hard is that rope tight oh yes you're pulling the rope if somebody were to touch the rope in the middle it would sound like a guitar string ding ding ding you're pulling so tight but the slacker, his rope is loose.
And in this situation we say the rope has slack.
It isn't tight. And that's how this nuance of a slacker, it's not tight, it's not being pulled, it's not being worked.
A person who is a slacker is somebody who's not working.
Don't be a slacker.
here. Check out the dialogue.
Aw, Tim makes me mad.
He doesn't do much work, does he?
He's such a slacker!
Why does the boss keep him?
Oh yeah, at the office there are always going to be slackers.
And it's a mystery.
Why does the boss keep those guys the boss should fire the slacker right if you are the boss if I were the boss I would fire the slacker well it's never easy to fire the slacker and sometimes the slacker is the president's son or daughter yeah it doesn't have to be a guy it could be a woman too, oh boy, yeah slackers they're They're everywhere.
I was in the Army a long time ago.
I was in the Army. So many slackers in the army.
Unbelievable. But now I'm your coach. I hope you don't think I'm a slacker.
I work hard. I work as hard as I can.
I'm not a slacker. Are you a slacker?
Don't be a slacker.
That's why we have weekends.
We have days off. We have vacations.
Then, we can slack.
But otherwise, don't be a slacker.
That's today's expression, everybody.
Now, once again, I don't know if I told you yesterday, but I'm in the middle of moving.
The place I lived was just too loud, so I'm coming to this place, I'm here now.
And it's much quieter.
later. I don't know how the audio quality is yet.
I hope it's better.
I hope that there is an improvement and because of that, moving from one house to another is so much work.
So hopefully after I get everything moved, I may take a couple days off but then I promise I will stop slacking and I will do even more work for you guys Thanks a lot together.
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