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Welcome to the Aid is English podcast.
My name is Jack, and today I have a solo episode where I will explain two idioms.
So we are in the Idiom Academy today, and these are not exactly idioms.
These are more like expressions that we use to describe certain behaviors.
And they're kind of related, the two expressions.
One is possibly an idiom.
Um, the other one is, is more of a, uh, of a, of an expression that we, we use in English.
And, um, the first one that we're going to look at today is the silent treatment.
So when someone gives you the silent treatment, it means that they stop talking to you.
They stop communicating with you.
And this is probably everyone that has experienced a romantic relationship with someone has probably experienced the silent treatment from time to time.
And this can happen between friends.
It can happen between co -workers.
It can happen between lovers.
Um, but it tends to be more common among, uh, in, in romantic relationships, I think.
And the silent treatment is where you're having perhaps an argument or, or something.
And one person completely stops communicating with the other person.
so they they act as if you they cannot hear what you are saying so if you say something to them you ask them a question they give no response um you might follow up with another question um can you hear me they don't give you a response um it could be in an office situation.
It could be something like, hey, good morning.
And nothing, no response.
Just completely pretending like you don't exist, like you are invisible.
And we call this behavior the silent treatment.
And the way we would use it in a sentence is he or she is giving me the silent treatment and it can just from my own experience with this sort of uh behavior is that it can be very frustrating because um oftentimes when you have an argument or a disagreement with someone you want to discuss it you want
to talk about it You want to resolve it.
And if the other person is giving you the silent treatment, they are completely shutting any communication down, which often makes the other person really, really angry.
So it actually makes the situation worse because one person is talking and then yelling and then screaming and the other person is just acting as if they can't even hear you and it's very unhealthy I think it's an unhealthy behavior um and it it brings out the worst in people i think um because it means
that all communication has been shut down between the two people or the two parties and so if you've ever experienced this where someone gives you the silent treatment send us an email or send us a message and let us know about your experience with that, because I'm very curious to hear some of your
stories of dealing with either giving the silent treatment to someone or getting the silent treatment from someone.
And so, yeah, this is a very common behavior, probably unhealthy.
But just from a language standpoint, if we're learning English here, I'm just giving you a name here, a term that we use in English, and we call it the silent treatment.
And we often use it with the verb to give, to give someone the silent treatment.
Our second one is similar to the first one, but it's a little bit different.
There's a slight difference between the two of them.
And the second one is, this one is more of an idiomatic expression.
And this one is the cold shoulder.
And we also use this one with the verb give.
So, you give someone the cold shoulder, the cold shoulder, okay?
And let me give you an example.
I'll do like a short dialogue to give you an expression, to give you an example of this expression.
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Um, hello Mary. And then Mary doesn't even turn around.
She might just turn her head a little bit and say, hi.
and then she turns her head back and ignores you so she acknowledges that you're there but she only gives you just one word just hi and then turns around and keeps talking to other people and you feel like you didn't receive a warm welcome from her it was a very short just hi and not like a hello good
to see you hi i'm so glad you're here that kind of thing just a very short a very curt response um which makes you think that oh no mary is angry with me i did something wrong and i've upset mary but i don't know what it is mary is giving me the cold shoulder and you can kind of make sense of this idiom
because it's it's like it's like the person turns their body kind of away from you and gives you their shoulder instead of their instead of eye contact they kind of give you a shoulder they kind of block you a little bit with their shoulder and it's like oh you couldn't even turn around and look me
in the eye and say hello to me all like all i get is a very slight little turn and uh a turn of the head and you know hi and then um and then ignore and then she ignores me and doesn't really engage with me and talked with me and and tell me she's glad to see me and so we would say mary is giving me
the cold shoulder and so yeah i'm i'm also curious if you any of you out there have ever received the cold shoulder from someone um and what was the reason did you was the person upset with you this you know oftentimes it's because maybe that other person is there's they're angry with you about something
and you might not know what you did wrong um and so you know you may want to investigate further and ask someone else you know hey is is mary upset with me is she angry with me she gave me the cold shoulder at the party and this is you know this is again i think we've all experienced this from time
to time. And there's probably always some reason why the person is giving us the cold shoulder.
But I just wanted to share that expression, that idiom with you, because I think these are very useful for social situations and for personal interactions with people.
And, you know, how do you express these feelings that you're, that you have?
And so you could say someone is giving you the silent treatment.
They're not talking to you.
They're acting like you don't exist, like you are invisible, or they might be, they might acknowledge you, but very, very, in a very, very short response, just like, hi, you know, um, and that's getting the cold shoulder, uh, a kind of cold response.
And so there you go.
Silent treatment and the cold shoulder.
Those are our two expressions for today.
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