Hi, everyone. This is Ellie from China.
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Welcome to episode 406 of Everybody ESL, the podcast for everybody who wants to improve their English, practice their English, or just learn more English.
My name is Ben and I have a mini episode for you today where I am going to teach you about one English topic.
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Okay let's get on with this mini episode.
In this episode, I am going to tell you about an interesting and common phrase.
The phrase is Down Memory Lane.
That's D -O -W -N -M -E -M -O -R -Y -L -A -N -E.
What does down memory lane mean?
Does this make you think of anything?
Can you guess what this might mean?
Down Memory Lane is about remembering old times.
Another word for that is reminiscing.
Down Memory Lane has to do with thinking about old times, thinking about your past, thinking about your life when you were young.
You will usually hear down memory lane, used in a longer phrase, like to go down memory lane, to walk down memory lane, to take a trip down memory lane.
If you do one of these things, if you go down memory lane or walk down memory lane, or take a trip down memory lane, that means you are thinking about or talking about old times.
You are thinking or talking about your past. You are thinking or talking about the time when you were young.
It always means thinking or talking about your past. It doesn't mean thinking or talking about life If 100 years ago, or 200 years ago, or something like that, it means thinking about your own past. And it usually has a happy, positive feeling.
It means thinking in a positive way, thinking in a happy way about the past. Why do you think we say memory lane when we are talking about this?
What is memory lane?
What does that mean?
Memory lane sounds like the name of a street.
Here in the United States, streets usually end with the word street or road or lane or avenue.
Streets have names like First Street, or Maple Street, maple is a kind of tree.
Or West Avenue, or Sunset Lane, something like that.
The names of streets sometimes end in the word Lane, L -A -N -E.
This is the same word you see in the phrase Memory Lane.
The idea here, I think, is that when we talk about going down memory lane, we are talking about it as though it is a place we are going.
We are walking down this special street in the neighborhood, a street called Memory Lane, a street that is all about your happy memories.
When I hear somebody talk about memory lane or going down, or walking down memory lane, I imagine them traveling down a street in the neighborhood, or traveling down a street in the city.
And for whatever reason, this is the way that we often describe this activity.
This is the way we often describe the activity of thinking and talking about happy things from your past, happy memories from your past. And that is down memory lane, an interesting and common phrase that I think you should know.
This is the end of episode 406 six of everybody ESL.
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