AE 1413 - Expression: Kill Two Birds With One Stone
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What common challenges do people face in daily tasks?
You ever have one of those days where your to-do list feels longer than the day itself? You've got errands to run, emails to answer, dinner to cook, and somehow you're trying to do all three things at once. Maybe you're on the phone while walking the dog. Maybe you're listening to a podcast while commuting to work. Or maybe you plan your grocery shopping so you can grab the parcel from the post office at the same time. When that happens, it feels pretty satisfying, right? One action, two problems solved. Saving time, saving effort and feeling a bit clever about it too. English actually has a fantastic expression for moments just like this. When one smart move helps you accomplish more than one goal at once.
And today, you're going to learn it. Let's go. G'day you mob, welcome to Aussie English. I'm your host Pete and my objective here is to teach you guys the English spoken down under. So whether you want to sound like a fair dinkum Aussie or you just want to understand what the flippin' hell we're on about when we're having a yarn, you've come to the right place. So sit back, grab a cuppa and enjoy Aussie English. Let's go. Music
G'day, you mob. Welcome back to the Aussie English Podcast. I am your host, Pete Smithson, and this is the number one place for anyone and everyone wanting to learn Australian English. Today, we're going to go over the expression to kill two birds with one stone. To kill two birds with one stone. Remember, before we get into it, you can get the free downloadable PDF for this episode. It'll be linked in the description. You will get the exercises in there, the description of the different words in the expression, its meaning, the pronunciation exercise, everything like that in there, too. It's a little cheat sheet for today's episode to help you learn. So, go and check that out. It'll be linked in the description.
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Once again, aussieenglish.com.au forward slash podcast. So, how have you guys been? What have you been up to recently? I wonder if I've told you. I'm not sure if I've mentioned it recently, but I got back into cacti and succulents. So, growing cacti and succulents, these desert plants, desert adapted, arid adapted plants, you know, they live in very dry conditions where water is not very accessible. It doesn't rain very frequently. And I am absolutely in love with a handful of genera, so groups, types of these cacti in particular, from South America and Central America. The genera are astrophytum. Ariocarpus and Copiapoa or Copiapoa, depending on how you want to pronounce it. And they are from places like Southern America in like Texas area, Mexico.
And then the Copiapoa are from Chile, I believe, or Chile, right? Up in the Atacama Desert there, where it's got all this fog everywhere. that comes in, but it never rains. It's really dry, but it has this ocean fog that the cacti are able to kind of take the moisture out of each day. So, anyway, I've been nerding out with that. And my favourite thing at the moment is because it's sort of the end of summer, the flowers keep coming out and cacti, if you don't know, have beautiful flowers, really vibrant colours, you know, absolutely gorgeous. And I've been pollinating different cacti, you know, hoping to create seeds. And I got a whole bunch recently from some of the pollinations crosses that I did.
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