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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

Yeah.

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

If I found out Elsa's boyfriend was cheating, I would definitely rat him out.

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

So maybe someone's loyal to Elsa, right?

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

Not so much the boyfriend.

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

And so that's an appropriate sort of ratting out.

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

OK, so this is tricky because we've got to be careful with the word order here.

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

The first one is to rat someone out.

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

And this next one, guys, is to rat on someone.

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

OK, so they're very close, but both work.

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

Or everyone agreed to stay quiet about stealing the candy.

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

But someone ratted on us.

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

The teacher knows.

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 for sure for sure yeah this means you know we have a rat or i smell a rat someone in the group is sharing information they shouldn't but we don't know who it is yeah um so only a few people knew the knew the plan not every now everyone knows we definitely have a rat yeah someone must be leaking our strategies to our competitors i think we have a rat

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

It's kind of funny.

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

This is something that we get introduced to in grade school, but then it can go on throughout our whole lives.

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

I mean, you could talk about like double agents or spies and things like that.

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