Practise English Listening - Five a Day #34.4

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  Hello and welcome to the English Like A Native Podcast.

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  My name is Anna and you're listening to week 34,

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  day four of your English Five A Day, the second season.

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  I'm here to help you to build a habit of dipping into the English language on a regular basis

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  because by doing something small but regular,

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  you can achieve quite a lot.

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  So, let us start today's episode, as we always do, with a snapshot of what's to come.

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  After months of unpaid overtime,

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  the straw that broke the camel's back came when management introduced a fun dress code that banned jeans.

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  By Friday, I was close to the edge,

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  muttering about workplace scum who clearly hadn't read their own code of conduct.

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  Then our team staged a coffee-fuelled revival,

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  blasting music and wearing the brightest, most ridiculous trousers we could find.

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  Because if you're going down, you might as well go down in style.

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  Okay, let's dive in to the vocabulary starting with the idiom.

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  The straw that broke the camel's back.

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  The straw, S-T-R-A-W, that broke, B-R-O-K-E.

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  The camels, C-A-M-E-L, apostrophe S, back, B-A-C-K.

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  The straw that broke the camel's back.

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  This.

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