AEE 2688: Come in Guns Blazing With These English Idioms
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What is the purpose of the “Come in Guns Blazing” episode and how does it help English learners?
This is an All-Ears English Podcast, episode 2688. Come in guns blazing with these English idioms.
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 Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer. Coming to hear From Arizona and Colorado USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all earsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. Don't be gun-shy about improving your English. Today, find out how and when Americans use gun-related terms in English conversations.
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Hey Lindsay, how are you today? Good. Aubrey, how's it going? What's happening with you?
I am great. I have a question for you. When you were a kid, when you were growing up, who always called shotgun or did you fight over it?
I mean, both of us did, right? So yeah, there was a period of time, I think when I was like a young teenager where both of us were constantly, my brother and I always wanted shotgun. Of course, you want to sit in the front seat. If you're a kid, right? Yeah. I'm in this
phase right now phase. I'm in a phase right now where my kids all want to be shotgun. Okay. When if my husband's driving or if I'm driving and one of us, they want us to sit in the back. And for a while we're like, no, we're sitting up front. But then it's actually more peaceful if one of us is in the back. So I'm like, I would actually rather ride in the back, have no one fight.
Oh that's oh so you mean you can keep the piece in the back. I can keep the piece in the back and let one of them
sit in the shotgun.
I see. Okay, interesting. Well, hey, whatever works, whatever works. I wonder if our listeners are wondering, shotgun, what does that have to do with the front seat? Well,
if so, you guys missed a recent episode. We're gonna give you that number really quick that came up in a previous episode. Twenty five eighty-five was Beat the Light, How to Connect Over Risky Driving. But we promised a follow up with more gun phrases because we were realizing how many phrases like shotgun we use that are ki that are like you would think they're about guns, but they're not. We use them to mean something totally different.
Yeah, and I mean this is, you know, uh for better or for worse, usually for worse, frankly, uh guns are a huge part of our culture, right? Uh they have been historically. And uh maybe we'll touch on some of the issues that we do have with guns in our culture, but to actually refer to guns in these idioms, Aubrey, is it okay, would you say? I mean, despite all the problems we have with school shootings, we have violence in the US.
with guns that's what's really interesting is that just the word gun has been adopted into so many phrases where native speakers don't think about guns when they use these words. So shotgun is a good example. We only think of the front the passenger front seat of a car. You know, we're not thinking about where this idiom came from and what it has to do with guns. And all of today's phrases are like that as well. They're casual. They're playful. You're going to hear them. You can definitely use them.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the “Come in Guns Blazing” episode and how does it help English learners?
0:00–6:27
2
How can listeners discover their English level with the two‑minute fluency quiz?
6:27–8:07
3
What does the term “shotgun” mean in everyday American conversation?
8:07–15:21
4
How is the idiom “gun it” used to encourage someone to speed up or act quickly?
15:21–19:53
5
What does it mean to be “gun shy” and when should you use this phrase?
19:53–22:02
Speakers
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