AEE 2599: Build Someone's Confidence By Fighting This Battle
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2599. Build someone's confidence by fighting this battle. 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 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.
Do you ever need to help someone feel less embarrassed or to make them feel strong? Today, get a key phrase to personify objects or events and build connection.
You can be technically correct in English and still not sound natural. Maybe your sentences are grammatically right, but something feels stiff, a little robotic. Not quite how a native speaker would say it. That's nuance. Fluency lives in collocations, phrasal verbs, and word choice, not just grammar rules. If you keep using the same safe phrases, it may be time to stretch. Find out your level and what vocabulary skills you're missing in our free two-minute quiz. Go to allearsenglish.com slash fluency score. That's allearsenglish.com slash f-l-u-e-n-c-y-s-c-o-r-e. Hey, Lindsay, how are you? Great, Michelle. Glad to be here on the microphone with you. What's going on today?
Well, Lindsay, do you have any trusted cleaning products that can get out any stain?
That's a good question. Sometimes I've had luck with stain stick, you know, like the little stick that has the gel that you put on things. That's what it's called? Yeah, like stain stick. I think at least I remember when I was a kid using that because I used to get stains in all my clothes. Of course. So really, stains are no battle for what, Michelle? A stain stick, I guess. Yeah, I guess.
We're not sponsored by stain stick. No, no, no, no, no. Well, that's good to know. Okay, I'll have to look it up. So today we are going to talk about an expression that deals with strength. So what is it, Lindsay? You just used it.
That's it. So the expression today is X is no battle for Y, right?
Yeah, so this is a fun one. So essentially this means Y or like the stain stick in that example is better or stronger than X or the stain in some way. So the stain can't compete with the stain stick. It's going to die. Yes, yes.
And this is fun. This gives us an element of interest in our language and we can comment on things. I mean, this is cool. This is going to be really cool today, Michelle. I'm excited.
Yeah, this is a fun one. Yeah. And you know what I'm excited about? Our reviewers, because we got some great reviews. Lindsay, would you like to read the names for us?
Yes.
How can you help someone feel less embarrassed?
Huge shout out to Ailyn from Iran who reviewed us on February 8th. And Ailyn said, how I love this podcast. Aw. Wonderful. And then ID 276-6479-239 from the US. That person left us a review and Haqqani Rasooli. Thank you so much, guys, for taking the time to go over and tell us what you think about the show. And if you guys haven't done this yet, let us know what you think about All Ears English. You know, you could even ask us your question right there inside your review.
Okay. Yes, exactly. We do look at those. So that's a great place to ask questions as well. All right. Well, thank you guys so much. So, Lindsay, X is no battle for Y. Do you hear this a lot in conversations or when might you hear it?
I hear this and then I hear variations of this sometimes. But strength is an important thing in life, right? Or competition is an important thing in life. Usually it comes down to can this thing beat this thing, right? Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. It makes me think of, I just went to the rodeo actually a few weeks ago. Really? So Denver has a famous, the stock show, the famous Denver stock show. Okay. They do all the things. They do the bull riding.
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