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Have you ever walked into a store and someone said to you you name it we've got it?
What does this phrase mean and where might you hear it?
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Hey Lindsay, how are you?
I'm doing fantastic.
Michelle, how's everything in your world today?
Everything's good. Lindsay, do you have any stores near you that have just everything you could possibly want or a restaurant.
Something that you just know there's everything there.
Oh my gosh. Well usually that's a diner for me but you know what Michelle Diners are not really a thing out here.
Yeah. Really. It's really an East Coast. I think diner was invented on the East Coast. I have a feeling I feel like I've read that it was invented in Jersey but I'm not sure our listeners will have to research that.
I have a feeling it's Jersey because Jersey is like that diner state.
Yeah. I there's a lot of diners here a lot but So, okay, what is a diner?
A diner is the place where you can go and get pretty much anything.
When I think of a restaurant where I could get anything, usually they have huge, well, in New York and New Jersey, they're often open all night, which is very cool.
You get a huge menu and it's got tons of things on it.
Usually the food is not necessarily outstanding, but it's good enough for a midnight snack or a nice breakfast with your friends.
And it's just a true experience, cultural experience.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
Yeah. So, yeah, we love diners here in New Jersey.
So Today, we are going to answer a really fun question from Omeed that came to us on YouTube.
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That's right. All right, so here's Omid's question.
Hi Lindsay and Michelle.
I love your podcast a lot and the way both of you explain the natural expressions.
Recently I've come across an idiom called you name it, we've got it and was wondering if there's a common daily natural expression, if this is a common natural expression in conversation, could you please make a video and explain about it?
Thanks so much, I love you all.
Omid from Iran beautiful all right yeah that is a great question I love it yeah definitely now that you're saying it definitely makes me think of diners um 100 % we we're gonna get into this today great question guys remember to hit the follow button wherever you listen to all ears English so Lindsay do you hear people say this you name it we've got it this feels like something you'd hear from someone in the 90s, like spinning a sign outside of a dollar store or something, you know, trying to get people in there.
I don't know. It just, it feels like a, um, something from an age of like have heavy commercialism.
Right. Uh, but yeah, you might hear it, especially in like a Walmart, a big box store gone.
Now. I think Kmart's gone.
Isn't it? Kmart. Do you remember Kmart?
Of course. Yeah, no, I do remember Kmart, but yeah, I actually.
Yeah. Yeah. Now that you think of it, I know there was one in New York that closed down, but I didn't realize they were all gone.
I haven't seen it in a while.
No, there might be more there just there might still be a few.
Um, it's a competitor to Walmart, but Walmart kind of won out in the end.
But essentially these big box stores are kind of common in the United States.
Right. We can walk in, we can buy pretty much anything in that store.
Yeah. I think we did a whole episode about Costco, didn't we?
We did Costco for sure.
The Costco effect. Yeah.
The cost go effect.
That's right. So, um, yeah.
I mean, you would hear this, you might hear it at a store like a big box store, um, restaurant, cafe.
I mean, uh, I was also thinking some sort of client service, like a party planner, a florist, um, something like that.
Anywhere where you're getting a something from a selection of items. Um, yeah.
Who might say this?
Who's going to be the person who says this?
I think, uh, certainly the owner of the business, if they're present on the floor of the store or the restaurant, the barista may be, um, just a floor manager, someone who's in charge of selling maybe signs.
I think more often you'd see this on a sign actually.
Ah, could be that too.
Yeah. I mean, and the, if you were the one doing the buying, you could say it, I mean, let's say you're recommending a store to someone.
You could say, oh, you examples here.
Here we're at the coffee shop.
All right. Perfect.
Here we go. Let's do it Michelle.
All right. What kind of milk do you have?
Almond milk, cashew milk, soy, 2%, half and half, you name it, we've got it.
Great. Yeah. I guess you're a local barista might say that too, right.
Though I find that often these, these trendy cafes tend to have just one, one thing, like they might have almond milk and then that's it.
Maybe almond milk and skim milk.
They usually don't have the whole gamut of options, from what I've seen, at least. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It really depends.
Well, you don't get any milk, right?
Because you drink it black.
No, I don't. That's right.
But usually, I'll hear if someone I'm with asks for it or something, yeah, for sure.
Yeah. Awesome. All right.
So here we go. Here's another one.
Now we're at the shoe store.
All right. Do you have a size seven?
Yep. You name it. We've got it.
Nice. All right. I would hope they would have all this.
cyber, not always, right.
Not always not always at all.
But yeah, let's I mean, so how does this feel to you?
You've kind of touched on.
It seems to you like to me, I felt it's kind of casual, cool and breezy.
But to you, the way you're talking about it sounds like you have a different impression of it.
No, I mean, I think it's common. I think it sounds it just depends on what kind of store you're in.
It just reminds me of just a heavily commercial environment, right?
Where people there's a lot of buying happening.
Yeah, we have everything you could possibly want, right?
Right, right Reminds me of a bygone era, you know, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, I think it's generally positive I mean the like the of the only other context I could think of it is totally different I mean like talking about sickness.
So for example Let's do this.
Uh, Lindsay. Well, I'll ask you.
Did you get a lot of the typical winter illnesses this year?
No, not really. I actually don't think I got a head cold this year.
What about you, Michelle?
Did you stay healthy or did you catch something?
I mean, I, I definitely had a few colds, but I was scared to say anything because it was a really, uh, everybody on the East coast was super sick.
This whole, whole winter.
But you might hear something like this.
Oh, it's been such a rough winter.
Yeah. Oh gosh. Did you get the flu?
You name it. We got it.
Stomach bug flu, all of it.
Oh my gosh. Yeah, so that's another good example or, or I guess another scenario could be if you have a friend over to your house and they're not feeling well, maybe they need like aspirin.
You have all the kinds of aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, whatever it is.
Then you open your medicine cabinet.
You name it, we've got it.
What do you need? Yeah.
Right, right. Exactly.
But generally you would hear this more in a commercial sense.
You go to a store. It's really about buying things, right?
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Okay, love it. Michelle, what are some other things that we might say?
Because we don't We don't want to always be saying the same thing, especially if we work on the floor of a store, a big box store.
What else could we say?
All right. Well, you could say anything and everything, for example, check out our candy selection.
We have anything and everything you could think of.
Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Also, you could say we've got it all.
So you could say, yes, we do have a ton of stickers.
We've got it all. Dinosaurs, stickers, stars, princesses, all of it.
Yes, I love it. So this is good before listing things or after listing things, right?
For example, we have a giant selection.
So this is maybe more direct, more commercial sounding, we have a giant selection of gift wrap here so take a look around.
Yeah. Yeah, and you could also do something, use it to recommend something to someone, right?
So if you want to talk about a place's inventory, you name it.
They've got it. Right.
So like, you know, a target.
Oh, head on over to Target.
If you're looking for X, Y, Z, you name it.
They've got it. Right.
I mean, Lindsey, do you shop at any like what's your what's your big box store of choice really?
Yeah, I think it's Amazon, Michelle.
Yeah, that's the way we're all going, right?
I mean, if I need toilet paper or just like, printer paper for my printer, I will usually just go to Amazon.
Yeah, so that's what I do.
What about you, Michelle?
Do you go to Target?
I will go to Target, but I'm not, I make the mistake of going with my kids to these places, I'm like, oh, let's do it, let's go, it's horrible.
I mean, it is just, it's a nightmare.
They see something they want, right, and then they, Yeah, everyone, we all, They all walk out with toys.
I don't think I bought anything for myself in a year.
I don't know, I am like, oh, can I look?
And no, we just have to go to Costco a couple of times because we had my daughter's birthday party.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I love that, yeah, so we were there.
And then, it's yeah, it's an experience.
Guys, you should listen to, we just did an episode about saying experience, so definitely head on over and listen to that one.
Yeah, so let's do another role play.
We've done a few mini ones.
Let's do one more before we go.
Alright. And this time we're in a flower shop.
I love being in flower shops, Michelle.
It's just I want to smell everything.
You know, it's just it's an awesome experience.
So here you work in a flower shop.
Lucky you. That sounds like a dream.
Retirement plan. Yeah.
Um, and I am looking for flowers.
Okay. Okay. Yes. Hi, do you have azaleas?
Yes, we have a giant selection.
Feel free to take a look around.
Oh, thanks. Oh, wow.
You've got it all. Look at these.
Yep. Thanks. Yep. Anything and everything.
I see. Oh. And do you have tulips?
Yellow tulips? Oh, yes.
You name it. We've got it right over there in that corner.
Excellent. Nice. Nice.
So, yeah, I definitely I agree that it's friendly.
It's kind of showing good service at the same time.
Um, but what I was saying earlier broadly it points to like a massive amount of selection in commercial, in, you know, in a commercial market, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's kind of both like the person on the floor is being friendly, but also there are a ton of options, which I don't think is true everywhere, right?
Like there's just a lot of things you could buy because our economy is so dependent on buying.
Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, exactly yeah.
Do you buy flowers for your home?
I wish I did more often.
I wish I did you know cuz when I do I think oh this was a great thing to do it just brightens up the kitchen do you wish I don't tell me once you did do that a lot do you that's really funny that you remember that yeah I used to I used to I always get into it I'm like oh I'm gonna start buying flowers every week and then okay gave me some flowers recently because she is what's going on vacation and she's like these flowers are just gonna die so you might as well enjoy them for a little bit of snow yeah I have some tulips they're all all dying.
But that's, yeah. I think especially in the springtime it's really nice to bring spring like tulips are spring flower, right?
Bring or no, they're a winter spring winter know anything about flowers.
Okay. We'll change the subject quickly.
Let's talk about Boy Bands of the Early 2000s.
Okay. That is your wheelhouse.
I love it. All right, good stuff, next episode, Michelle.
All right, so here I asked you, do you have azaleas?
And you said, yes, we have a giant selection, right?
Yep and then said, oh wow, you've got it all.
Look at all these, I mean, this sounds like an amazing shop.
Yeah, totally, exactly.
So, and then you said, yep, thanks.
Anything and everything, right?
Anything and everything as you said.
And then you said what, Michelle?
Well, you asked me do you have yellow tulips?
And I said, yes, you name it, we've got it right over there in that corner.
Right. Exactly. Very friendly salesperson on the floor.
Love it. Love it. And Michelle, is there another episode that we could check out today just as we're finishing up today's episode?
Yes, this was really fun.
I loved this episode.
We had a good time with this one.
Really good one. Check out episode twenty three eighty five.
That was order in the court.
Everyday courtroom English.
Yes. Order in the court.
was one of my favorite episodes.
It is so cool when we take these, I don't know, these fields, these industries, these areas of life and we bring it into English.
Yeah, yeah. I love that kind of episode.
Yeah. So Michelle, what's the takeaway for today?
Oh man, well we talked today a lot about really commercialism and you know, buying things and how we express that in different context, it can be used in kind of a car salesman type of way, like anything and everything.
At the same time, your local barista could say it as well.
So you will hear this, good to know.
And yeah, but I love it.
And it's important to know if someone says this, they're not trying to push things on you most of the time.
Right. And unless you are in a sales situation, maybe you like a car buying situation, they're just trying to be friendly.
So love it. Good stuff, Michelle.
And you have a good day.
I'll see you very soon.
All right. Thanks, Lindsay.
Bye. All right. Take care.
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