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The English we speak from bbclearningenglish.com hi Fei Fei.
What are you up to?
Hi Neil.
Oh, I'm just ironing a few clothes.
That's a big pile of clothes.
I'm going on holiday.
Everything has to be neat and clean.
You're even ironing your shorts.
Nothing like perfectly ironed shorts.
Nah, that's long Fei Fei.
They're shorts, not long.
Very funny.
You know what I mean.
Long is British street slang which we use to talk about a task which is boring and not really worth it.
Exactly.
Ironing is long.
It's dull and takes forever.
That's because you do it all wrong.