Easy English Expression, rehashed.
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I've had so many excuses.
Right now, my throat is killing me.
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I'm sick, so...
I'm missing it.
I can't wait to get back to the Let's Master English podcast.
But we do have EQ number 259.
This is what I am not.
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Let's go back in time.
Today's expression.
Oh, boy.
A slacker.
A slacker.
That guy is a slacker.
Are you a slacker?
Don't be a slacker.
What is a slacker?
S-L-A-C-K-E-R.
A slacker is somebody who doesn't work hard.
Yeah, a lazy guy, a slacker.
You know these people.
They're everywhere.
Sometimes they're at your office.
Everybody is working hard.
But there's one guy who just...
Doesn't work.
He's always talking with people.
He's always printing something stupid.
He's always on Facebook.
He's always in the bathroom.
He's always doing something, making coffee. joking, chatting.
He's not working.
Sometimes you have a school project or a work project and you do a lot of work and the other guy does a lot of work.
But there's that one guy who doesn't do anything.
So why does a slacker mean somebody who doesn't work hard?
Well, the idea is this.
Let's say our work is building the pyramids in Egypt.
And each of us must pull a huge stone up the pyramid to make it higher and higher and higher.
Is that rope tight?
Oh, yes.
You're pulling the rope.
If somebody were to touch the rope in the middle, it would sound like a guitar string.
Ding, ding, ding.
You're pulling so tight.
But the slacker...
His rope is loose.
And in this situation, we say the rope has slack.
It isn't tight.
And that's how this nuance of a slacker, it's not tight.
It's not being pulled.
It's not being worked.
A person who is a slacker is somebody who's not working.
Don't be a slacker.
Check out the dialogue.
Tim makes me mad.
He doesn't do much work, does he?
He's such a slacker.
Why does the boss keep him?
Oh, yeah.
At the office, there are always going to be slackers.
And it's a mystery.
Why does the boss keep those guys?
The boss should fire the slacker, right?
If you were the boss, if I were the boss, I would fire the slacker.
Well, it's never easy to fire the slacker.
And sometimes the slacker is the president's son.
Or daughter.
Yeah.
It doesn't have to be a guy.
It could be a woman too.
Oh boy.
Yeah.
Slackers.
They're everywhere.
I was in the army a long time ago.
I was in the army.
So many slackers in the army.
Unbelievable.
But now I'm your coach.
I hope you don't think I'm a slacker.
I work hard.
I work as hard as I can.
I'm not a slacker.
Are you a slacker?
Don't be a slacker.
That's why we have weekends.
We have days off.
We have vacations.
Then we can slack.
But otherwise, don't be a slacker.
Tim makes me mad.
He doesn't do much work, does he?
He's such a slacker.
Why does the boss keep him?
Tim makes me mad.
He doesn't do much work, does he?
He's such a slacker.
Why does the boss keep him?
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