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Slag off.





Welcome back, dear English, enthusiasts. This is Daniel. I'm the Vocab Man. And I was wondering, I mean, Don't get me wrong. I strongly believe that I have been learning a lot in the last four years here producing the Vocab Man for you, but let's take a closer look at it. Today is episode 66 and yeah, I have been producing over five hours in total.

So. Let's imagine if I produced double the amount or triple the amount, I mean, five hours in over four years, it's nothing. And let's say if I produced three episodes a week, I'd probably learn even more expressions. And as a result, of course, I would have become even more fluent in English, which is my goal, of course.

And I suppose it's your goal too, so I was just thinking, so now let's get started with an expression, which is a rather weird to me. It's called to slag off.

Because you must never, ever slag off the speaker because everyone, when you hear yourself, everyone always just gives, oh my God, I can't believe I sound like that company developed like that key thing is you focus entirely on you as the listener and you ask yourself just the following three questions.

Number one, how much does the speaker value? What he's saying to how much does the speaker value me as the listener? And then finally. Does the speaker make me care on that?

So to slag of means to criticize strongly, to say very bad things about other people, but it could also be a performance, etc. So it's rather a slang. So be careful when using it.

Some people are sort of saying, well, John Lennon know, he used to really slack off Paul McCartney. Um, and, and Paul says, no, no, no. He, we, we got on very well. It was just the way he was. He would be fast and loose and say crazy. Um, no Gallagher style things or Liam Gallagher style things. And actually he sentence overrated.

Anyway, he couldn't, uh, record an album like pipes of peace. If he tried.

So I repeat to slag someone off means to criticize them in an unpleasant way. So I think it's, it's rather British, right. And informal as, as I said before. So I really, I hope that you don't slack me off producing this episode, please, but if you have any suggestions for future episodes just drop me an email at myfluentpodcast@gmail.com.

Thanks.

Now I can tell you positive. I could slack off the professions and the juppies and how lots of them get paid for achieving very little goals . Um, I could question and challenge, but now I actually think, I think good things about people and places. Um, I rang a friend the other day. And I said to him, look, if I pay for your airfares, will you come to Northern New South Wales with me to the rainforest.

I just want to hang out in the peace and quiet. And, um, I can't do it on my own. And he said, yeah, I'll clear it with my wife. And I reckon that's alright