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Listen at the end of today's podcast. Today's expression is so good I'm giving you a noun and a verb and a phrasal verb.
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So the noun is a much. M -O -O -C -H.
A much. the verb is to mooch, M -O -O -C -H, to mooch, past tense, mooch -t, E -D, you know present progressive, I -N -G, mooching and the phrasal verb is to mooch off someone, to mooch off M -O -O -C -H, preposition O -F -F and then someone, to mooch off someone.
okay so there you go, mooch, too much and too much off someone to mooch off me to mooch off my dad to mooch off of someone is also possible so what does it mean too much oh boy too much is bad too much means to take something or use something or eat something that belongs to somebody else, but to take it, to eat it, to use it like it is your own.
For example, if you come to my house, I have many books.
Oh, and I love my books.
Lots of history books, lots of ESL books for learning English.
Lots of very interesting books.
Lots of business books, too.
And I used to have a friend, he's no longer my friend, but he would come to my house and he would look at my books and he would not even ask me.
He would just take a book and take it home.
He would never ask!
Now sometimes he would bring it back but other times he would never bring it back and I would go to his house and I would see my book and I would take it.
It's crazy! But not only books, CDs, music CDs, DVDs, movies, yes it's the same thing.
But I must say I am also guilty.
The other day I was looking at my DVDs and I noticed that I had several DVDs that I never bought.
There's somebody else's.
I have no idea whose DVDs those are, but now they're mine.
Where did I get those DVDs?
I mooched them. I took them from a friend, and as if they were my own, and I never returned them.
Isn't that terrible?
It's a great word. He's a mooch. He always takes things.
Don't mooch off me.
He always mooches off me.
Can I mooch a piece of gum?
Give me a piece of gum as if it were my own.
That's the idea. It's a great expression.
Are you a mooch? Do you have a friend who's a mooch?
Check out the dialogue.
Where'd you get those Doritos?
by the microwave. Those are my Doritos, you mooch!
Those were your Doritos, thanks!
Stop mooching off me!
Honey, you're my wife!
Ow! Doritos. Do you know what Doritos are?
D -O -R -I -T -O -S Doritos?
They're a very delicious chip.
Like a potato chip except it's I think it's a corn chip with a cheese.
Oh, it's so delicious Doritos mmm Doritos.
I love Doritos cookies Yeah, if you know what I went to my dad's house the other day and my dad bought these chocolate chip cookies now Usually chocolate chip cookies for a package.
It's like two dollars But there are some really good chocolate chip cookies, but they're like $6 for a box.
It's really expensive.
So when I saw that my dad had those cookies, I took about six of them.
I was mooching off my dad.
I mooched his chocolate chip cookies.
They're delicious! two much m o o ch I much I was a mooch m o o ch oh yes yep especially for food if you smoke you might mooch cigarettes food drinks books CD's DVDs blu -ray discs yeah that's the idea oh maybe your cell phone mooching data watching if you have And you use your friends cell phone to watch a Youtube video you're mooching his data You're stealing that's what it is basically you're stealing Well, that's what we do The world is full of mooches.
Are you not a mooch?
If you're not a mooch, I want to hear from you You're a great person Let's check out that dialog 2 more times and I'll tell you about our book club.
Where'd you get those Doritos?
By the microwave. Those are my Doritos you mooch!
Those were your Doritos.
Thanks! Stop mooching off me!
Honey, you're my wife!
Owwww! Where'd you get those Doritos?
By the microwave. Those are my Doritos you mooch!
Those were your Doritos, thanks!
Stop mooching off me!
Honey, you're my wife.
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