Hello everybody. My name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions.
You and me every day.
Come on! Let's master English!
Hello everybody welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression Podcast. Today's podcast is brought to you by the wonderful Pavel Melnikov.
stuff. Thank you so much Pavel for sponsoring this podcast. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.
Today's expression, everybody, is a noun, uh, push over.
P -U -S -H -O -V -E -R. It's one A pushover that guy is a pushover He is a push over.
She is a pushover. Are you a pushover?
Me I am not a pushover For some people, maybe for some people for my cats I'm a pushover for a kitty.
I'm a pushover. What is a pushover?
well, it's a type of person and who is very easily influenced.
Who is very weak in front of somebody strong or somebody important.
So for me, when I see a puppy dog, a baby dog or a baby cat, usually, you know, I'm a tough guy.
Uhh, uhh, you know, I'm tough, but when I see a baby dog, agh, I'm a pushover!
Even my voice sounds like a little girl's voice.
Hi, how are you? Oh, you're so cute.
Normally, I sound like this.
But, yep, in front of a dog, a baby dog, a kitten, I'm a pushover.
I'm a total pushover.
in front of a woman?
Get out of my way. In front of a guy?
Get out of my way. In front of President Obama?
You mean nothing to me.
In front of... Is there a human out there who scares me?
Maybe my girlfriend.
Damn, boy, she's scary.
Yeah, I'm a pushover in front of her, that's for sure.
My Mom, yeah, I'm a pushover, a little.
My Dad, not at all.
I remain strong, I remain tough.
The idea of a pushover, it's not a bad thing.
But if you're a pushover to everybody, that's terrible.
Let's check out a dialogue.
Boss, can I go home early tonight?
No, I need everyone here until we finish.
Mr. Heavencroft, could I leave early?
I want to buy a dress.
Oh, Miss Tisdale, of course you can.
Buy a pretty dress, okay?
Heavencroft, such a pushover when it comes to women.
Yeah that's true, I think there's a lot of guys.
a lot of bosses who are pushovers when it comes to women.
Come on guys. The only woman you should be a pushover to is your mother and your wife or your girlfriend.
If you have a wife and a girlfriend, that's a problem.
You should be a pushover to your wife and your mom, Maybe your daughters if you have daughters Yeah, that might be okay But no other woman out there and to another guy don't be a pushover to another guy Maybe your dad a little maybe your boss a little If you're in the military you have to listen to your boss Yeah, well be honest everybody.
Are you a pushover?
and once again, some people are a pushover to everybody.
They do whatever anybody says.
But not me. I'm damn strong.
Ha ha ha. So tell me, everybody, who are you a pushover to?
Be honest, be honest. You can leave me a message on Twitter.
My Twitter handle is CoachShane.
Shane you can leave me a message on Facebook our Facebook pages ESL coach Shane and you can join our Google Plus community and leave me a message there of Course the name of the community is let's Master English join me say hi now.
There are two ways that you Can incur there are three ways three ways you can encourage me To keep making this podcast number one listen Download the podcast listen to it.
Tell your friends please Number two leave a comment share the podcast Say hi Tell me that you're there, you know go to iTunes.
Leave a comment. Leave a rating go to Twitter.
Say hi Shane I like the podcast say hi to me.
Let me know you exist and Number three, if you can donate a dollar, sponsor me for a dollar a month.
That's like three cents a day, three pennies a day.
Now some people don't have the money.
Do not send me money.
I don't want your money.
But if you've got like a dollar a month that you could lose, then lose it my way.
and that that's a big help so that's it listening sharing and saying hi and Becoming a patreon becoming a patron sponsoring me it would mean so much All all those things mean so much So so if you guys do just one of those three two of those three great three of those three excellent But if you at least you're listening to my podcast that that does encourage me to keep making them Cuz it's all for you And I love you.
Alright, alright, umm, let's listen to the dialogue again, and then, and then we'll just leave. I'll have a short comment.
Boss!? Can I go home early tonight?
No! I need everyone here until we finish!
Mr .Heavencuffed... Could I leave early?
I want to buy a dress!
Oh, Ha, Miss Tisdale...
Of course you can! Buy a pretty dress okay?
Heav 'n Croft's such a pushover when it comes to women.
Boss? Can I go home early tonight?
No! I need everyone here until we finish!
Mr. Heav 'n Croft. Could I leave early?
I want to buy a dress!
Oh, Miss Tisdale! Of course you can!
Buy a pretty dress, okay?
Yeah, Heavencroft, such a pushover when it comes to women!
Okay, uh, yeah, thanks everybody!
You guys have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow.
and don't forget let's master English