Lindsay McMahon

So anyway, but that could be another episode for another day.

But yeah, keeping secrets is part of building connections.

It's all about building and maintaining someone's trust.

So when you share someone's secrets or something that could get them in trouble, you know, you betray their trust and you break that connection.

So

You know, today we're going to share some common expressions to talk about betraying trust.

And all of these phrases have something in common.

Lindsay, what is it?

The word is rat.

Rat.

yes yes oh gosh okay interesting yeah this is gonna be this is gonna be an interesting one so lindsey guys we want to remind you to hit the follow button wherever you're listening to the all ears english podcast so you never miss any episodes yeah good um so when we call someone a rat in english what does it mean michelle what does it mean

Yeah, well, a rat is someone who betrays our trust by telling on us.

So they usually share something that can get us in trouble or make us look bad.

And they might share that information with an authority figure.

Yep.

You didn't give us homework.

Right.

Yeah.

So yeah, I mean, as far as examples go of a rat, yeah, that's one of them when a student tells the teacher something.

So like, if the student observes another kid cheating on a test, and they tell the teacher, that would be like, like a rat.