Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 540

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  Hi there, this is Harry.

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  Welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,

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  where we try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language.

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  So what are we going to talk to you about in this lesson?

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  Well, as you know, at the moment, there are real problems with inflation.

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  And when we have inflation, we tend to have lots of problems.

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  And so these particular expressions that I'm going to give you now are linked.

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  generally to problems some of them relating to inflation and some just to other types of problems okay let me go through them now with you explain and then give an example so the first one is to keep the wolf from the door well

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  If you ever read your nursery rhymes,

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  and we used to have the nursery rhyme about Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf

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  as she walked through the forest.

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  And then there was also the nursery rhyme of the three little pigs.

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  And the three little pigs had three little houses, one made of straw.

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  one made of wood and one made of stone.

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  And they locked their doors so that the wolf couldn't get at them.

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  So there's a literal meaning of to keep the wolf from the door.

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  But in our real lives, when we want to keep the wolf from the door,

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  it means we just want to survive.

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  So we want to keep the wolf from the door.

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  So we have to do something, keep ourselves happy.

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