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Hello and welcome to the English We Speak from BBC Learning English.
I'm Neil and with me today is Helen.
Helen, what are you doing?
I'm just stamping on this clock.
Yeah, I can see you're really destroying that clock.
My question is why?
Well, don't you remember you told me that you were going to be a little late for the recording session.
Yes, I had to delay things by.
An hour and I asked you what I should do while I was waiting.
Yes, that's right.
And you told me that I should just kill time, so that's what I'm doing, killing time.
Well, I did tell you to kill time, but I didn't mean destroy a clock.
In English, when you say you're killing time,
it means you're doing something that isn't really important just to occupy yourself before the start of your next plan
or arrangement.
Yeah, that's right.
Killing time has nothing to do with violence towards clocks.