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Have you ever heard a native speaker use the term squeeze out?
What about bleed out?
Today we answer a listener question about adding the preposition out to a few common verbs in English.
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Hey, Lindsay, how are you?
Hello, Aubrey.
I'm doing great.
How are you?
How's everything?
Excellent.
Really, really doing really well.
I have a question.
I'm curious about your neighborhood there in Denver.
Has it changed a lot since you moved in?
Lots of new neighbors or people moving out?
Oh, that's a good question.
I don't know.
It's kind of an urban leaning neighborhood.
Like it's kind of busy and a bit of a walking neighborhood.
So I'm not really sure, but I do know my next door neighbor is moving out and he's looking to sell his house.
So we may have new neighbors here very soon.
Ooh, exciting.
Hopefully there'll be good new neighbors.
That's always a little scary because you never know.
It could be great.
It could be terrible.
It could go either way.
It could go either way.
Well, I brought that up because we have this really interesting question and we're going to share some vocabulary today.
And one of them is squeeze out, which we often think about people getting sort of pushed out of a neighborhood, either by increased home prices or for whatever reason.
So it's been interesting.
Interesting here too.
Just um, home prices are so high that um, you know, a lot of people just aren't able to buy in the neighborhood or they're getting pushed out, squeezed out, and so hopefully they're hopefully that will change soon, so it's easier to purchase a new home.
Yeah, I think I.
I hear a lot about Arizona in terms of growth uh, and housing prices going up.
There are certain key markets in the US that are really surging.
Yes,
And I think Arizona is one of them, the Phoenix area, which is near where you are, right, Aubrey?
Exactly.
Yeah, definitely.
And this is, you know, there are probably lots of areas, but Phoenix is definitely one of them.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
So we'll get on that, get on into that topic probably on another episode for sure.
But we're going to get into this a little bit, this idea of like squeezing out and using out after a verb, right.
I love it.
Yes, exactly.
Okay.
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Yeah.
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But this question actually came from YouTube, which is another good place to consume the show.
Right, Aubrey?
Absolutely.
If you're more of a visual learner, you can watch these episodes on YouTube.
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And leave a comment there.
Yeah, with a question.
We love that.
Yeah, we get a lot of questions on YouTube, actually.
Really good ones.
So should I read this question?
Yeah, let's do it.
All right.
This is from Layla and she says, Hey girls, thank you very much for your valuable content.
I appreciate and value your efforts to make this content.
I've been listening to your podcast for more than a year and I've learned a lot from you.
Aubrey, I love when we get these messages, these love letters from our listeners.
I know me too.
So it's one thing to listen to a podcast a few times, but like to stick with it for a year or years, like that.
We know you're really loving it.
You're learning a ton.
That's awesome.
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Guys, let a friend know about our show.
So Layla says could you please talk about the meaning of bleed out?
I've seen this sentence today.
There is a fair bit of bleed out these and I've struggled to understand the meaning of the sentence.
Loads of love from Azerbaijan.
Have a great day.
Wow.
Azerbaijan.
Oh my gosh.
That's amazing.
Oh, amazing.
Yes.
And thank you for this question.
I know it can be really tricky when you're learning a new language and you see all these different verbs and phrasal verbs and you see these sentences and it doesn't make sense at all.
And often you don't really have anywhere to look, because if you Google this, I don't know what you would find.
There wouldn't be much.
This is a little tricky.
I think maybe the sentence that she saw was there is a fair bit to bleed out of this, because that would make sense to me, right?
Okay okay, not a super common phrasal verb, but i do hear it used this way.
So we're going to talk about bleed out a little bit and then some related phrasal verbs ring out and squeeze out that we use a little more often.
Um, these are all really interesting.
Yeah, it's all about context, guys.
So we're going to show you, you know, how to use these phrasal verbs, and i think we're talking about phrasal verbs a lot this month right, i love that, this concept of when do we use them, what do they mean?
Okay aubrey, so should we go through our first one?
Then the bleed out yes, so two things here.
Like first, bleed out, you're going to hear most often meaning death from blood loss.
If someone bleeds out, that means they were injured.
They lost too much blood and they passed away.
And the other way you'll hear bleed, not bleed out, but we talk about colors in clothing, bleeding.
I just realized that sentence might've had to do with that.
If it was like there's a fair bit bleeding out of these and you're talking about clothing, that means the dye, the color is bleeding out.
So it could be about that too.
Okay.
Yeah.
So there's a lot of context here, right?
I mean, I know, Aubrey, you're into true crime, right?
So you probably end up hearing a lot of the concept of bleed out.
Like if someone, as you said, death from blood loss, there's been some kind of a murder.
There's lots of famous podcasts that are true crime podcasts.
Or if you watch some of these hospital shows, like Grey's Anatomy, some of these, then you're going to hear a doctor yelling like he's bleeding out.
Right, right.
They're losing too much blood.
Yeah, i feel like that's the most common way that would be used, i think right.
But i like your idea of um my, you know, my clothes bled or bled out.
I guess we could also say they've just bled into each other right yes, right.
And if you're talking about um color bleeding out yeah, because this happened to me once.
I bought these black jeans And I washed them with other clothing and the dye bled out into all the other fabric and everything ended up really dingy and gray and awful.
I was like, whoops, I should have washed those alone.
We've all had our laundry mishaps.
Just last week I was visiting my parents in Boston and I put my mom's gorgeous wool, beautiful wool sweater in the dryer and it shrunk to the size of a two-year-old sweater.
I'm like, sorry, mom.
I've done that to my kids.
My daughter, my teenager, bought a new sweater and I just washed it and dried it.
And it ended up, like you said, like doll clothing.
Okay, well, let's go to a kid's secondhand store then.
Right.
So these things happen.
These things happen.
But yeah, you got to watch out for the, especially in jeans, dye.
Yeah, they use dye in the jeans sometimes.
But the second meaning of bleed out, it is about extracting information, right?
We have many ways that we talk about squeezing information out of something or fun squeezing fun out of something.
And this is a really great way to connect, right?
Asking others about how they squeeze enjoyment out of life, because we have to do a lot of stuff in our lives that isn't that fun.
It might be a little routine, a little boring.
So how do we squeeze the fun out of life?
Oh my gosh.
What do you do, Aubrey, to squeeze the fun out of life?
What do you do?
What's your go-to method?
Anything specific?
Some sports for sure, right?
Pickleball, volleyball.
It's so fun for me.
So I squeeze some fun out of life by being active, but not just anything, not just running or walking right.
Sports, team sports that are really fun for me.
Oh, I love that.
That's so good.
For me, it's being outside.
You know, just I just feel happier when I'm outdoors.
I don't know what it is.
Just breathing in the air, the sunshine on my face.
It's just that's that's my go to.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Okay.
So let's dive in here just with this meaning of extracting information, because this sentence that our listener heard could have been about this right.
If it was, there is a fair bit to bleed out of this.
I can imagine being at work and we're talking about something where we need to pull information out of something.
It might be said that way.
Okay.
There's a fair bit to bleed out of this.
Okay, there's a lot of information to get out of this, but I don't hear that often, do you, Lindsay?
No, this is not a common use for me, so I, I don't.
Yeah, I mean, for example, let's bleed what we can out of this information.
I guess it makes sense.
I just don't.
I don't think it's in my repertoire right, it's not common.
I when I'm like reading this question and trying to think you know, what did they actually hear and what could that have meant?
Because even me I hear that and I'm like hmm, I'm not sure, because we don't hear this expression very often, but it could have meant this.
I could imagine someone saying I need to bleed a lot of information out of this.
You know, whatever it is that's happening, this meeting, this presentation, right?
But I think there are a couple of ways that we would say this much more commonly.
Right.
I think on another episode we could do on business English we could talk about extracting information.
I could talk about the word glean.
What have you gleaned from this?
Sometimes I find that verb annoying, but we use it all the time in academia, right?
Glean insights all the time everywhere.
There's a lot of other things we could say there.
So maybe we'll do that another day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a lot of ways to say that and we use them all a ton at work.
So yeah, be sure to hit follow over on business English so that you don't miss that episode.
I love it.
Okay.
So where to next?
Ring out.
What do we think about this?
I do hear more often.
Same meaning to extract information from someone or out of something, or to obtain something from somebody with difficulty, especially by putting pressure on them.
Right.
So let's give a couple example sentences.
This I would definitely use over bleed out for getting information out of someone.
Yeah.
So here's a sample sentence.
We need to wring some information out of her.
Interesting.
Okay.
Yeah.
So do you hear it this way, Lindsay?
I use this a lot and I hear this a lot.
I don't hear it as much, but I get it.
It makes sense.
When I think about wring out, I just go to the sponge, the basic physical idea of taking a sponge and wringing the water out of the sponge.
Yes.
And I'm glad you brought that up because that's the most common, right?
We wring water out of something that's wet by squeezing it and the water comes out.
This is sort of a more of an idiomatic use to talk about doing the same thing instead of with a sponge, with like a person, to wring information out of someone or or um, It doesn't have to be a person.
It could be a meeting or a document, right?
I'm going to ring everything I can out of this.
Or, for example, we can ring a lot out of this data, meaning we can kind of gather or get a lot of information out of this data that we've collected.
Exactly right.
We're going to read into all of this data and then use that to inform what we're going to do.
And we would say that I'm going to ring a lot out of this information.
Yeah.
What's the past tense of this word?
Ring.
Yeah, and this is really interesting.
It's rung, so it's irregular, right?
W-R-U-N-G, rung out.
And we also use this idiomatically.
If someone says, I feel really rung out, what would that mean, Lindsay?
Oh, I feel emotionally exhausted.
Yes, this can definitely happen.
For sure, you can imagine that visual.
If you are that sponge that's been wrung out.
Yeah, that isn't a good feeling for a person, right?
Imagine if someone's asking you a ton of questions.
You'd be like wow, I feel really wrung out after all of those questions.
Oh, you know, the first thing that comes to mind is our IELTS students right over on our IELTS energy podcast.
I wonder how they feel, you know, after that Saturday afternoon speaking exam and then the writing test Absolutely.
I feel like anyone after a long exam is going to feel wrung out because you're using your brain.
There's all this stress and anxiety or there can be leading up to it.
And so, yeah, you just get sort of emotionally exhausted.
This is a great way to say that.
Oh, I feel really wrung out.
Yeah.
It could happen after conferences too.
But by the way, guys, if you don't know, we have this whole other podcast called IELTS Energy.
And Aubrey, you're over there with Jessica two days a week.
So-
Our listeners should go check that one out too if IELTS is anywhere in their future.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's really fun.
Jessica and I keep it fun so that yes, it's test prep.
Yes, you're learning vocabulary strategies, but in a really fun way.
Believe it or not, you got to check it out.
Check it out.
All right.
We're getting to the last one today, which is squeeze out.
Tell us about this one.
Squeeze out.
So very similar.
You could say you squeeze out a sponge or a rag.
So similar to wring out.
And then we'll also use it to mean force out, often to force someone out of a space or an activity.
But we also talk about squeezing good fun out of something like Here's an example.
Let's squeeze what we can out of our time here before we move, right?
Before someone's only going to be somewhere a couple more weeks, they want to go, do all the fun things and be like let's squeeze every drop of fun we can out of this two weeks.
Yeah.
If we want to go to the literal definition, which is sometimes helpful, think about squeezing the juice out of a lemon right.
You take a lemon, you know, do you have a lemon squeezer in your kitchen?
Right?
You put the thing on the plastic and then just get that juice as much as you can.
Love that.
Yes.
We have a lot of citrus here in Arizona, so I'll end up with like big bags of lemons because they grow here.
So I have two different squeezes.
One of them is like a metal squeezer.
And then I have an electric one that has the plastic, but like it spins it.
So then it comes out so I can make lemonade.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, we have the electric no-nonsense squeezers here.
No messing around over there in your kitchen.
I like it.
Yeah.
All right, should we do a role play to show our listeners how this all comes together?
Yeah, let's do it.
So in this role play, we are chatting about changes to our neighborhood.
And this is a relevant topic right now, right?
Super relevant.
Yeah, here we go.
I'll start us out.
So many people are moving.
I feel like this neighborhood is bleeding people.
Oh yeah, I just found out my neighbors are moving.
I'm not sure why though.
We need to wring it out of them.
Is it possible they're being squeezed out so that shopping mall can be built on the corner?
Well, maybe.
I hope they can squeeze out some fun before they have to leave.
We should plan something.
Nice.
A little block party.
You guys do block parties around your... We did.
We just did one on Halloween.
That was really fun, like a chili cook-off, and everybody came out to chat.
It was great.
Oh, that's very cool.
That's very cool.
Yeah.
We don't do that here in my in my neighborhood, but I was just visiting my aunt's place in California and they had a little Halloween block party.
And I remembered it's, you know, what's nice about the suburbs is nice, right?
Like you know your neighbors, you can enjoy festivities with the families, and that kind of thing is kind of nice.
Absolutely.
Definitely perks, right?
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
Some downsides not being right in the city center, but definitely some good things too.
Oh, for sure.
So here, Aubrey, you said so many people are moving.
I feel like this neighborhood is bleeding people, right?
Yeah.
And this is that use that's not quite as common.
So not bleeding out, but we would say a place is bleeding people if so many people are moving.
It's just another way of saying losing, losing a lot of people.
It's a little idiomatic.
It's a creative use of that, of that concept of bleeding, right?
Exactly.
You mentioned a quickly in the episode about bleeding money, companies bleed money.
That's commonly used and it's being used here in the same way that we're losing.
Exactly.
Yes.
Yes.
Like besides, you know, bleeding actual blood.
We do use it idiomatically to say that someone's losing either money or people.
Will say it's bleeding funds or bleeding people.
Yeah.
I love that.
What else?
What did you say, Aubrey?
And then I said, we need to wring it out of them.
This is something I would totally say if you're like, oh, I don't know.
I don't know what they're then I'll be like, oh, I need to wring it out of them.
Meaning like, I need to extract that information.
I need to get them to tell me.
So it means you're going to be creative in the way you ask.
You're going to come at them in different ways.
You're going to not let down, not back off.
It definitely implies, because there's a reason I'm not just saying, oh, we need to ask them.
It sort of implies you've already asked, and for some reason they didn't tell you.
And now I have to, yeah, like you said, be creative, ask another way, try and get them to tell me.
Oh, interesting.
And then you said is it possible?
They're being squeezed out so the shopping mall can be built on the corner.
Yeah.
So this is one use of that squeezed out to like force someone out.
We'll talk about that because often, like where I live, there was a lot of farmland and they squeezed out all the farmers, and I'm sure they did that by offering them quite a bit of money for their land, but they're squeezing them out nevertheless, right.
They're trying to make room for all of the development that's happening.
Yeah.
It makes me think of you know when all the highways were built after World War II in the US?
I know the government just came in.
I mean, they have the eminent domain concept, right?
Where the government can just kind of come in and say, we're building a highway.
Your example about the shopping mall is a little bit different.
It's probably a private project, right?
But there are situations where the government can come in.
That happened to my grandfather.
He owned a butcher shop in Darien, Connecticut.
And the government just came in and said, we're building I-95 right through this street.
And, you know, that's it.
That's happening.
So it happens.
And they might offer to you know, buy their property, but often lower than it's worth, and you just don't have a choice like yeah yeah yeah, for sure, squeezed out, okay.
And then i said maybe i hope they can squeeze out.
So we used it again, squeeze out, just in a little bit of a different way.
Yeah, you hope they can squeeze out some fun, right?
This is a much more positive use, meaning like, for sure you you, you know, take advantage of the time you have by making it fun.
Yeah yeah, for sure.
I mean it's good to be able to talk about.
I do think that for our listeners guys, the useful conversation topic here is about gentrification, right?
Because people are talking about this, about development and people moving and things changing, like what neighborhoods and cities are in style right now?
What's out of style?
Super interesting conversation From an economic level.
So guys, dive into these concepts, right, Aubrey?
Don't you think?
Yeah, that's a great conversation starter.
And everyone's going to have something to say about their own neighborhood, or they might be curious about yours.
This is a great thing to.
You might not always think to ask someone about what their neighborhood's like if it's changed a lot lately.
If people are moving or moving in.
It's an interesting thing to chat about.
Yeah, I think this could make a great poll question for today, Aubrey.
So maybe we will put up a little poll question for our listeners.
So guys, if you're listening in Spotify, you can vote in our polls.
So check it out right after you finish today's episode.
And any final thoughts?
I mean, that's it.
This is a conversation starter right here.
Absolutely.
Right.
So thank you for this question.
It's interesting.
Vocabulary can be confusing when you hear it in sentences that don't seem to make sense.
Right.
But often it can lead to really interesting conversations.
Yeah, good stuff.
All right, Aubrey.
And good conversation leads to connection.
And that is why we are here.
Absolutely.
All right.
You have a good day.
I'll talk to you soon, Aubrey.
Take care.
Thanks, Lindsay.
Bye.
Bye.
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