AEE: Want the Lowdown on This Vocabulary?
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Want the lowdown on this vocabulary?
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Find out now. Get your level at allearsenglish.com. slash fluency score. One more time. Go to allearsenglish.com slash f l u e n c y s c o r e. Michelle, how's your week been? Give me the lowdown. Oh, well, my week has been good so far. I had a good weekend. So I'm kind of, you know, although I was very tired over the weekend and now the weather is it was very cold and gloomy this weekend. And today I feel just an immediate change because it is so nice and sunny. So I love it. So that's really the lowdown.
I could use some cold and gloomy weather. So I'm jealous. Let's trade. It's funny because, yeah, I'm asking you, how's your week been when it's like Monday morning? That's kind of strange. But I wanted to ask, I wanted to say, give me the lowdown. We got a great question from a listener about this word. I'm going to go ahead and read that. This is from Mateus. And he said, is there a difference between give someone the rundown and give someone the lowdown? Great question. They are used differently, and we're going to break it down today.
Break it down. Okay, so thank you, Mateus. That is a very good question. And we also wanted to thank a listener who sent us a review.
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The first word of today is lowdown. Lowdown, right? We're first going to start with lowdown, and then we'll cover rundown. So lowdown means, you know, the real often complete or honest truth about something. Sometimes it has insider details that not a lot of people know.
Right. So if someone asked about the latest news about something, I'd say, okay, I'll give you the lowdown and then update them.
Exactly. But it's often more about secretive or unknown information, right? We use it often to give someone inside information. For example, if you're training a new trainee at work and there's some office drama you need to let them know about, you might say, I'm going to give you the lowdown about office politics, right? You're giving them the inside scoop.
Yes, exactly. I like that. The inside scoop. Yeah. So here's another example. All right, give me the lowdown. What really happened at the party last night?
Ooh, something juicy. Said, yes, I want to know what did happen at the party. Or before I joined that club, I want the lowdown on what it's actually like. This is often, right? You want reviews, you want recommendations, you want the lowdown sometimes before making a decision.
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