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Michelle Kaplan

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7426 total appearances

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All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

Right.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

Yeah.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

And that's a really good question.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

It's a fun twist on this episode today in this topic.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

It's true.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

There's an exemption there where when you tell like your best friend something, you understand they're probably going to tell their spouse.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

Really fascinating.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

The word that they have in common is rat.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

Vermin.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

Mm-hmm.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

And yeah, I can imagine what words we're going to teach today, right?

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

And a lot of them are derived from this rat, the word rat.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

And it's not always necessarily a secret that was told to them.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

It's usually something they just observed.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

So it's a little bit different than the secret, telling the secret to the partner, right?

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

It's like telling on someone.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

Like remember in school, there were always kids that were tattletales, you know?

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

Yeah.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

Yeah.

All Ears English Podcast
AEE 2632: Don’t Be a Rat! Expressions for Betraying Someone’s Trust

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.