AEE 2551: Embrace Both Meanings of this Useful English Word
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2551. Embrace both meanings of this useful English word. Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer. coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA. To get real-time transcripts right on your phone and create your personalized vocabulary list, try the All Ears English app for iOS and Android. Start your seven-day free trial at allearsenglish.com forward slash app.
Did you know that the word embrace can mean a few different things in English? Today, find out the nuances and how to use them in different contexts. Plus, how are stances on aging and beauty different in regions of the US? Find out today.
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Hey, Lindsay, how are you?
Awesome, Michelle. How's everything going for you?
Everything is good over here. Lindsay, have you embraced wide leg pants yet?
I have not, Michelle. I can't get there. I just can't get there. I don't think they're flattering on me. And nope, I'm still into the straight leg. Not skinny so much, but straight leg all the way.
Yeah. Nice, nice. Yeah, it's funny. My mom actually, she was on a vacation and she saw everybody was wearing wide leg pants. And then she told me, I think I need to do it. So now she wears a lot of wide leg pants. That's so funny. Very cool, very hip, very trendy. Yeah. i haven't quite i i do have some wide leg pants but i'm not sometimes i feel really good about them and then sometimes i feel i don't know about this um yeah usually i'm really late to trends like i'll usually i didn't adopt skinny jeans until like the last three years of skinny jeans so and now you can't get out yeah what are we getting into today Yeah, today we're going to talk about this word embrace because this came up in an episode I did with Aubrey a little bit ago.
It was episode 2537 was cozy up with these holiday phrasal verbs. So guys, we head on over to that after this if you're interested in listening. So we were talking about the word. Well, it actually came up in a totally random way. Because Aubrey was saying she doesn't like those blow up decorations.
Right.
And yeah. And then she said, oh, she should probably embrace them. And I kind of made a joke because I'm like, that sounds like, oh, you're saying, oh, I should go up and hug them. And because she meant embrace as like, oh, I should embrace them. I should accept them. I should enjoy them.
Yes.
But something about it made me think that she was saying, oh, I should go up to them and I should hug them. Yeah, that's true. Because there are a couple different meanings of embrace. right? Yeah. So we decided this would be a really good episode topic for the future. So we're going to go and talk about that today.
What are the different meanings of the word 'embrace'?
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