AEE 2589: Party's Over! How to Say Something Is Coming to an End
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2589. Party's over. How to say something is coming to an end. Welcome to the All Ears English podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
What is the significance of knowing when a party is over?
We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection. With your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl. coming to you from Colorado and New York City, 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.
Sometimes you have guests over and they never seem to leave or you want to gather a group of people, but they aren't listening. Today, learn new phrases that are oozing with personality to handle these moments.
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Hey there, Michelle. What's shaking? How's it going? Hey. Lindsay, everything is good over here. How about you? I'm good, Michelle. But do you ever have, I mean, do you like to invite friends over to entertain them, just to hang out?
Yeah, actually, recently, I've been very excited because Dan has invited some friends over. And I think it's very nice because before we moved, most of his friends were just my friend's husbands. And actually, these ones are too. But he's developed his own unique friendships with them. And it's not only if I'm there, you know? That's good. Yeah. He had them over and it's, yeah, it's very nice. So, but I like to have people over. What about you?
I do. I do. But do you ever worry they might stay too long or does that ever happen to you? They overstay their welcome.
See, I'm always happy to have people stay as long as possible. The only thing is getting my kids to sleep. So like, for example, you know, my friend Ian, who some of you may have recognized from some of our courses. Yeah, we do music together. And so he comes over and my kids love him. He and his wife, we're all very close. But, you know, sometimes then it becomes... harder to get them to sleep. And, you know, so it's not, it's not so much the, like, I like having people there. It's sometimes just hard for, you know, figuring it out with getting my kids to sleep. Yeah, for sure.
I think Ian, by the way, was in our B2 fluency course. So guys, if you haven't seen the B2 fluency course, if you are at that level, check it out. Go to allersenglish.com slash B2. We interviewed, you interviewed Ian about his traveling lifestyle, right?
How can you express that it's time for guests to leave?
And we brought that into learning some language. Really cool. But yeah, I mean, even if you don't have kids to get to bed, surely there is a certain moment when you're tired, which it's time to go to bed, whether it's 1 a.m., whether it's 10 p.m., 1 a.m. They need to leave at some point. And in American culture, it is a faux pas. probably more so than other cultures, I'm going to say that, to overstay your welcome. This is a big thing, I think. I mean, if you're really close to someone, then this wouldn't be an issue. You just would blatantly tell them, you got to go home. Look, you got to go. But we're talking about people that maybe we're not quite as close to, and it's still like maybe... There's still a bit of self-consciousness there.
So how do we deliver that message that it's time to go? I mean, Michelle, have you ever broken this unwritten rule yourself? Have you ever committed a faux pas where you overstayed your welcome?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:19
2
What is the significance of knowing when a party is over?
0:19–3:56
3
How can you express that it's time for guests to leave?
3:56–13:47
4
What cultural norms exist around overstaying your welcome?
13:47–14:19
5
How can you navigate the awkwardness of ending a gathering?
14:19–20:43
Speakers
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