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This is number 1118. Today's expression is so good.
It is pet peeve. Pet peeve.
Pet pee, pet. It's just like your cat or your dog, but in this case it's not a cat or a dog.
Pet peeve. Pe-e-e-v-e.
So what do these two words mean and what do they mean together?
Pe-e-e-e-v-e simply means something that annoys you, something that bothers you, okay?
And when you see the word or hear the word peeve, you will almost always see it or hear it with the word pets.
And we don't say peeve pet, it's always pet peeve.
Pet, as I said, can refer to a cat or a dog.
And if you have a cat or a dog, if you have a pet, you love your cat or your dog, right?
I have three cats and one dog.
Do I love them? Uhhh. Well I take care of them.
They're my responsibility.
So yeah, I guess in a way I love them, right?
I mean I love them more than mosquitoes and mice, of course.
But no, no, of course I love them.
My dog's name is Moose, my old cat's name is Minty and my two little cats are baseball and tennis racket.
And yes, I love them, of course.
There's such a thing called a pet name and a pet name is basically a nickname that you give your wife or your husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, especially someone you love.
That's my pet name. My pet name for my wife is Zubi Dubi.
That's just a joke, it's not.
But the idea is when I see her, Zubi Dubi, hey Zubi Dubi, Zubi Dubi, I love you.
It's not. Believe me, if my wife, if I called my wife Zubi Dubi, she'd probably kill me.
But that's the idea of a pet name.
A simple pet name would be sweetheart, darling, baby.
But those are very common.
Many times people, couples will have kind of like secret or private pet names.
So what is a pet name? In this case, a name is a name, a pet, somebody that you love, somebody that you feel deeply about.
So a pet is an animal that you love, a pet name is a nickname for someone that you love, and a pet peeve is something that you love to hate.
That's the easiest way to make a definition.
Something that you love to hate.
Something that bothers you so much and you love to complain about it.
You love to say, oh my god, shut up, I hate that.
That's my pet peeve. We'll talk about different pet peeves in a second.
Number one, check out the dialogue.
You okay? No. Listen. Is that Tommy?
Is he? Licking his tongue.
That's my biggest pet peeve.
Yeah, the old tongue flick.
When I was a little kid, I did that.
I remember, you know, I'm probably like four years old, and I remember sitting watching TV doing the tongue flicking.
I don't know what this was, but like making air come through your lips and then out your mouth, it sounds like a fart.
Oh, yeah, I used to do that all the time and I would drive my mom and my dad, especially my dad, it would drive him crazy.
He hated it. It was his pet peeve.
Yeah, loud chewing noises.
Oh, I hate that, right? What about people being late?
Oh, you're always late.
You're always two minutes late.
You're always five minutes late.
You're always ten minutes late.
You're always late. You're never on time.
You're never early. Yeah, I hate that.
Being late is my pet peeve.
That's for sure. The incorrect use of grammar to be honest as an English teacher, right?
You would think I hate people using grammar wrong.
And actually, I don't. I mean, if you're studying English and your grammar is wrong, that's fine.
You're studying English.
But even if you're a native English speaker, so for example, yesterday, we learned the expert in D.D.M.
We learned the expression.
Give them. And that's a horrible, dramatic expression.
When you talk about grammar, it's really, really, really wrong.
But it's part of daily English.
If I go into the south or in some urban areas, their usage of grammar, when they talk amongst them front, they're themselves.
Their friends? Totally different from the standard rules of grammar.
Even British grammar and American grammar rules can be different.
Even New York City editor grammar and Chicago city editing grammar can be different.
Lot of opinions out there.
But grammar adds not a pet peeve of mine.
Bad pronunciation is much more of a pet peeve of mine.
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Pet, peeve. Oh my god. Advertisements are my pet peeve two more times.
And together, let's master English.
You okay? No. Listen. Is that Tommy?
Is he? Licking his tongue.
That's my biggest pet peeve.
You okay? No. Listen. Is that Tommy?
Is he? Licking his tongue.
That's my biggest pet peeve.
