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Welcome to the Aid is english podcast.
My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co host Sochil.
And Sochil and I are going to unpack three expressions today.
And all of these expressions have the word shut in them.
And so our first one is shut down.
And so what does it mean to shut down or shut something down?
Shut down refers to, if I could use an example, my dog was, you know, starting to bark in the background, and before he got out of control, I made sure to shut it down.
So it's like stopping something kind of you.
It's like either something's going to be a commotion or already is the commotion, and you're trying to put a stop to it before it gets out of control.
Or it already is out of control and you're trying to put a stop to it.
Yeah, you're shutting it down.
And that.
And that's more of the, like, conversational usage.
Right.
And then one of the more, like, common ones would be like, shut down the computer.
You know, just click whatever and shut it down.
You could.