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Today's expression is, is top shelf.
is Top Shelf, T -O -P Top Shelf, S -H -E -L -F.
Well, what's a shelf?
Well you have to think of a library, they have many, many books.
They have books down below and then books a little bit higher and then higher and then higher and then higher and higher and higher, Those books are on book shelves.
So each layer of books is a bookshelf.
So I'm looking for a book about Cote Shane.
The Cote Shane book is on the third shelf.
Oh here it is. Okay, so libraries have books on many different shelves.
So now you understand shelf.
So, top shelf means the upper shelf.
The shelf that is the highest. So at the library, if something is on the top shelf, it has no special meaning, but in daily English, if we say something is top shelf, that means something is the best. Oh, yeah, you bet.
So, for example, cars.
What's a top -shelf car?
Well, if you're thinking about safety, believe it or not, Volvo is a top -shelf car.
If you're thinking about very sophisticated, perfect for the business -man or business -woman, then we might say Mercedes -Benz is top shelf.
If we're talking about sports cars, oh, definitely Lamborghini is top shelf.
Now, not only Mercedes -Benz is top shelf for a business person, but so is BMW and other companies too.
And of course when it comes to sports cars, not only is Lamborghini top shelf, But so is Ferrari.
Of course. There's Bugatti.
There are many Porsche There are many top shelf cars.
So if something is top shelf It's not the number one best it is simply the best There are many products that could be the best But that top shelf means the top I don't know five percent That's the idea.
So if something is top shelf it might not be number one but it is definitely really really good, probably the top 5%.
Let's check out a dialog.
Daily easy English podcast is top shelf.
How so? Oh, every day.
Coach Jane makes a podcast every day, free English every day.
Really, I should start listening too.
That's what I try to do, a new podcast every day hopefully it's not too difficult and I do try to make it easy for everybody to understand and I will tell you this, our podcast is doing amazing.
Let me give you some statistics.
right now we are at six million seventy -eight thousand six hundred six downloads that is amazing we're just over one year old and already over six million downloads six million people have listened well not necessarily six million people, but yeah I don't know.
You do the math. It's too much for me, but it's so amazing and it is my great honor to be part of your English lessons thanks a lot I promised to do my best to keep this up every day some people say please stop not every day only Monday through Friday maybe maybe on year three I'll switch to monday through friday we'll see about that but anyway hopefully you agree that daily easy english is top shelf i do my best that's it everybody you guys have a fantastic day think about other things that are top shelf restaurants or actors in my opinion Bruce Willis is top shelf cars and other things maybe
neighborhoods something like that.
Podcasts, English teachers.
What else can you think of?
Things that are top shelf.
You guys have a fantastic day, practice the dialogue two more times and together, let's master English!
Daily, Easy English Podcast is top shelf.
How so? Oh, every day.
Coach Shane makes a podcast everyday free English everyday really I should start listening to daily easy English podcast is top shelf how so how every day coach shame makes a podcast everyday free English everyday really I should start listening to
