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Michelle Kaplan

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

Or whatever.

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

And those kids were not fun to be around because they were always tattling.

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

What we would call as a bonus word for today, tattletale.

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

You're a tattletale.

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

And the verb is to tattle on someone is to go and tell the teacher that this kid did this and that kid did that.

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

And there can be adult tattling too, right?

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

Ratting out, tattling.

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

A co-worker tells the boss you've been leaving early every day, right?

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

That's not great.

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

Siblings will do that to each other for sure.

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

Let's talk more about rats.

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

That's one way to use it.

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

And we'll talk about a few more in just a minute.

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

So there are a lot more here, Michelle.

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

You know, for example, to rat someone out.

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

That's the first one that came to mind when we were earlier in the episode.

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

To rat someone out is to tell someone an authority or person in charge of someone else's wrongdoing.

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

Right.