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EQ number 299.
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Number 299.
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Today's expression is so good.
I'm giving you a noun and a verb and a phrasal verb.
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So the noun is a mooch.
M-O-O-C-H, a mooch.
The verb is to mooch, M-O-O-C-H, to mooch.
Past tense, mooched, E-D.
You know, present progressive, I-N-G, mooching.
And the phrasal verb is to mooch off someone.
To mooch off, M-O-O-C-H, preposition O-F-F, and then someone.
To mooch off someone.
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So there you go.
Mooch, to mooch, and to mooch off someone.
To mooch off me.
To mooch off my dad.
To mooch off of someone is also possible.
So what does it mean, to mooch?
Oh boy, tumuch is bad.
Tumuch means to take something or use something or eat something that belongs to somebody else, but to take it, to eat it, to use it like it is your own.
For example, if you come to my house, I have many books and Oh, and I love my books.
Lots of history books.
Lots of ESL books for learning English.
Lots of very interesting books.
Lots of business books too.
And I used to have a friend.
He's no longer my friend.
But he would come to my house and he would look at my books and he would not even ask me.
He would just take a book and take it home.
He would never ask.
Now, sometimes he would bring it back, but other times he would never bring it back.
And I would go to his house and I would see my book and I would take it.
It's crazy.
But not only books, CDs, music, CDs, DVDs, movies.
Yes, it's the same thing.
But I must say, I am also guilty.
The other day I was looking at my DVDs and I noticed that I had several DVDs that I never bought.
They're somebody else's.
I have no idea whose DVDs those are, but now they're mine.
Where did I get those DVDs?
I mooched them.
I took them from a friend as if they were my own, and I never returned them.
Isn't that terrible?
It's a great word.
He's a mooch.
He always takes things.
Don't mooch off me.
He always mooches off me.
Hey, can I mooch a piece of gum?
Give me a piece of gum as if it were my own.
That's the idea.
It's a great expression.
Are you a mooch?
Do you have a friend who's a mooch?
Check out the dialogue.
Where'd you get those Doritos?
By the microwave.
Those are my Doritos, you mooch.
Those were your Doritos.
Thanks.
Stop mooching off me.
Honey, you're my wife.
Ow!
Doritos.
Do you know what Doritos are?
D-O-R-I-T-O-S.
Doritos.
They're a very delicious chip.
Like a potato chip.
Except it's, I think it's a corn chip with a cheese.
Oh, it's so delicious.
Doritos.
Doritos.
I love Doritos.
Cookies.
Yeah.
You know what?
I went to my dad's house the other day, and my dad bought these chocolate chip cookies.
Now, usually chocolate chip cookies for a package, it's like $2.
But there are some really good chocolate chip cookies, but they're like $6 for a box.
It's really expensive.
So when I saw that my dad had those cookies, I took about six of them.
I was mooching off my dad.
I mooched his chocolate chip cookies.
They're delicious.
Two mooch.
M-O-O-C-H.
A mooch.
I was a mooch.
M-O-O-C-H.
Oh, yes.
Yep.
Especially for food.
If you smoke, you might mooch cigarettes.
Food, drinks, books, CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs.
Yep, that's the idea.
Oh, maybe your cell phone, mooching data, watching.
If you have a cell phone and you use your friend's cell phone to watch a YouTube video, you're mooching his data.
You're stealing.
That's what it is.
Basically, you're stealing.
Oh, well.
That's what we do.
The world is full of mooches.
Are you not a mooch?
If you're not a mooch, I want to hear from you.
You're a great person.
Let's check out that dialogue two more times.
Where'd you get those Doritos?
By the microwave.
Those are my Doritos, you mooch.
Those were your Doritos.
Thanks.
Stop mooching off me.
Honey, you're my wife.
Ow!
Where'd you get those Doritos?
By the microwave.
Those are my Doritos, you mooch.
Those were your Doritos.
Thanks.
Stop mooching off me.
Honey, you're my wife.
Ow!
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