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Hello and welcome to the English We Speak from BBC Learning English.
I'm Jiayin.
And I'm Neil.
Today, Neil, I wanted to talk about the adjective savage.
Oh, right.
You mean something that's cruel or violent, like a wild tiger.
Well, a tiger is savage.
But I was thinking of another meaning.
What are you on about?
You're wasting my time with all this silly animal talk.
Don't you know what savage means?
I do.
You're demonstrating it very well.
When someone criticizes others severely and cruelly, we could say that they're savage.
You mean being brutally honest saying the truth is savage.
But I was only joking, Jiang.
Just to illustrate the point.
Thanks, Neil.