The English We Speak: Make a pig's ear of something

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  Hello and welcome to the English We Speak where we explain expressions used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too.

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  I'm Feifei and I'm joined by Georgie and that is an interesting hairstyle Georgie.

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  Oh Feifei,

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  I was really bored of my usual hairstyle so I tried something different today but it was a really difficult hairstyle to do and I ended up making a real pig's ear of it.

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  Oh well, you could try again tomorrow.

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  So why would you mention a pig's ear when you're talking about a bad hairstyle?

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  Well, that's what we're going to learn in this programme.

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  What does it mean to make a pig's ear of something?

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  Well, if you make a pig's ear of something, you do something badly.

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  You've messed it up.

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  So I tried really hard to give myself a cool hairstyle but I made a pig's ear of it.

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  My hair is a mess.

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