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Hello everybody. Welcome back to daily easy English Expressions.
And the podcast is going up late today.
It's 837 North of Chicago.
The temperature 63 degrees Fahrenheit very cloudy outside I love it how is your day starting off I am on my second cup of coffee already yeah that's okay it's decaf not a lot of caffeine there's some sugar in there but not too much sugar and some milk how do you start your day do you start your day with coffee too all right today's Today's expression is very, very good.
It is a word, sheer, sheer, S -H -E -E -R and it's an adjective, meaning unrestrained or unmitigated.
And we use it as an adverb too meaning completely.
So I'll give you an example, sheer happiness, complete happiness, 100 % happiness, pure happiness, happiness with no restraint, every happy feeling coming out, physically, emotionally, in your eyes, and your body language and you're laughing.
When you see a child three years old, having a good time, laughing, that is sheer happiness.
It's really nice to see, right?
It is, I love seeing sheer happiness.
When we are older, sheer happiness is, we still have it, but it's less common.
One of the opposite, sheer terror.
sheer terror complete 100 % like it is just pure P u r e pure terror gosh I hope you have never experienced sheer terror I hope you always experience is sheer happiness.
Sheer is a great word.
Here's another example in the dialogue.
Check it out. Oh, you look so happy.
I am. You want to hear sheer beauty?
What are you listening to?
Bird song. Nature does it best.
Yes, it's so true. So where I live...
I live in the country.
You know very much in the country in the woods and the forest there's nothing but trees and grass around me so The springtime and right now the summertime.
This is my first spring here my first summer here has been amazing I have so many birds so many different types of birds in my yard I've got blue birds that are completely blue and I've got yellow birds that are sheer yellow, sheer blue, sheer yellow, and there's so many other birds.
Seriously, I've got probably 30 to 40 different birds in my yard and the songs they sing, we call that bird song, sheer beauty.
Sheer beauty, just 100 % beauty.
Beauty with no stop, it is just amazing.
However, sometimes it's so loud that if I'm talking on my cell phone, I can't hear the other person.
I'm not joking, I'm not joking.
Right now, outside, you can't hear because of the microphone but right now I'm in my house with the windows closed And I can hear birds outside a lot of birds.
They're going crazy.
I don't know they like it here Yeah, they'd know a good place to live sheer beauty sheer beauty.
I want you guys to use the word sheer and Remember the meaning is complete pure P.
U. R. E unmitigated unrestrained I want you guys to use the word shear in a sentence okay and good luck is if you send it to me on Twitter if you make a sentence with the word shear on Twitter I will tell you if your sentence is good or bad okay same thing on Facebook if you leave an example of your sentence using shear on Facebook I'll tell you if your sentence is good or bad.
All right. Remember there are other meanings for sheer, but the meaning that we are learning today is as an adjective to describe something as complete beauty, 100 % beauty.
Pure beauty, unmitigated beauty, sheer beauty.
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You guys have a wonderful day, you deserve it and I will talk to you again tomorrow tomorrow's Friday yaay!
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Oh you look so happy!
I am. You want to hear Shear Beauty?
What are you listening to bird song nature does it best oh you look so happy oh I am you want to hear sheer beauty what are you listening to bird song nature does it best
