AEE 2655: Are You Slammed with Work? How to Talk About It
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2655. Are you slammed with work? How to talk about it. 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 a good way to say that you have a lot of work? Today, get ways to say that something is happening to you that is out of your control in English.
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Hey, Michelle, how's it going? Hey, good, Lindsay. Lindsay, how was this past winter for you? Oh my gosh, are you kidding me? It's been easy. It's been summer. It's been a California winter over here. Nothing like what you've been dealing with. Yeah, for some reason, we never got any snow. We never got any cold weather. I mean, right now, this is coming out in the summer, so we're... We're talking about this way in the past tense, but we had an easy winter over here in Colorado, but you over there on the East coast got slammed, right?
We got slammed with snow this year. It was, it was crazy. And then like one of the snow storms, it wasn't, there was a lot of snow, but the good thing was it was getting slightly warmer. So the snow, you know, melted fairly quickly, but the first, like one of the other ones, it was so cold. cold that it just wasn't melting and it was just i mean for like a couple weeks it was just like still just ice oh yeah it was crazy so we got slammed for sure you got slammed yeah yeah So, but today we're going to share three verbs that you can use to talk about things that impacted you in a big way. So, and they can be sometimes sudden. So this is going to be a really interesting one. But before we get to it, we just really want to thank our reviewers.
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All right. Love it. So let's go through it. So slammed, right? That's the one we already use. So Lindsay, what does it mean to be slammed?
Yeah, I like saying this. It means something hits you in a forceful, hard way. And it's kind of diverse, the situations we could use here. At the top of the show, we talked about a blizzard, a snowstorm, right? Maybe a hurricane comes through and you get slammed by a hurricane. It reminds me of where my parents' beach house is. We sold it, but they live on the harbor south of Boston.
What expressions introduce the idea of things happening to you out of your control?
And it's this little cove which is super exposed to the open ocean. And so every time there's a storm in New England... That's where the reporter goes and they stand at the very end of the lighthouse that's just jetting out into the ocean. And they're there and they're like swaying in the wind and I'm in situate Massachusetts and oh my God, there goes my hat.
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