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Hello and welcome to The English We Speak where we explain phrases and expressions used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too.
I'm Feifei.
And I'm Phil.
Phil, you are dripping wet.
What happened?
Well...
The weather seemed fine when I left home,
but then I got five minutes down the road and it started raining really heavily.
I guess I learnt the hard way that you need to have an umbrella if you live in London.
Well, I suppose the good thing is that if you learn the hard way, then you probably won't forget.
Now, shall we learn this expression?