2021-06-24
15 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome back to my lesson and podcast.
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Okay, so what am I going to talk to you about today?
Well, what I thought I would talk to you about are nationalities, and in particular, some expressions and idioms that we use using the names of certain countries.
Okay.
And hopefully they mean something to you and I'll give you an explanation.
So let me read them to you first, and then I go through them one by one to go Dutch.
It's all greek to me.
An indian summer, pardon my French, a dutch uncle mexican standoff, and then another one from Mexico, a mexican or the mexican wave to take French leave spanish practices, and finally, russian roulette.
Okay, so let me go through them and give you the examples, and hopefully you'll explain, or you'll understand what they mean when I explain them to you.
And you might come across them in books or in movies, so you just have a better understanding what they mean and then how to use them.
So to go Dutch, well, Dutch is about the Netherlands and Holland, but when we say to go Dutch, it means when we go out on a date with somebody, we split the bill 50 50.
Now, in some countries, there's the expectation when a man invites a woman for a date that he will pay everything.
But in some countries, we do go Dutch.
Certainly in the UK and in Ireland, if you go out on a date and you're not sort of a couple as yet, maybe it's the first few dates, then they almost certainly go Dutch, mostly because men and women are now both working and usually not always, they're both earning an equal amount of money if they're sort of around the same age and the same sort of profession.
So to go Dutch is quite easy and it's quite commonplace.
So if you want to go Dutch, then you will split the bill.