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Welcome to the A to Z English podcast.
My name is Jack, and I am one of the hosts of the podcast here.
And today I am doing an episode that is related to chinese proverbs that we use in English.
And so I'm going to give you three chinese proverbs that native english speakers will sometimes use.
And I will also explain the meanings of these proverbs.
And another word for these are kind of idioms, I suppose, but some of them are longer, so we call them proverbs.
And so here is number one.
The first one is kill two birds with 1 st.
Kill two birds with 1 st.
This idiom reflects efficiency in completing multiple tasks at once.
It's used to describe accomplishing two objectives with a single effort.
And so I'm trying to think of an example of killing two birds with 1 st, but I think we use it when we talk about, like, for example, if the bank, I need to go to the bank and I need to go to the grocery store.
And luckily the bank is next to the grocery store.
So I can say, oh, I'm going to drive or take the bus to the grocery store, and I will buy some milk and withdraw some money from the atm, okay, get some money from the bank and buy some milk from the grocery store.
And all in one trip, right?
I took the bus to the grocery store, but I also went to the bank.
So I did two things.