Andrew

So often we use it in these kinds of sales and contract negotiation situations.

Exactly.

All right.

Very good.

Why don't we transition now into our second key expression for this episode, which is a fun one to say.

It's really fun to say.

It is double down, double down.

And this is a verb.

So it's to double down in the dictionary form.

And Indiana, I know that this

Expression originally comes from the card game Blackjack, but you and I were chatting before we hit the record button for this episode, and we both have never played Blackjack before.

So we're just going to tell you guys that the original meaning, the original literal meaning of Double Down comes from the game Blackjack.

But since Indiana and I don't know about this game, we won't try to fake it and say that we understand.

So let's skip over the origin and just get to the idiomatic meaning.

And again, Indiana, could you do the honors and tell us how we use this expression in our regular everyday lives?

Yeah, exactly.

And the thing that's a little bit difficult to understand with double down is I think in the moment, double down usually has a negative meaning.

It's a negative connotation, a negative sense to it.

However, when time passes and we're looking back, you know, we say hindsight is 2020 like from our present perspective in the present.

If we look back at history, often we can say, oh, yeah, he should have done this or he should have done that because like.