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Feifei: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak.
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I'm Feifei and... excuse me please...
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Rob, can we have your attention please!
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Rob: Err, oh alright then... hello, I'm Rob.
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Feifei: Rob, could you take
your feet off the table please!
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Rob: Oh, alright then. There you go...
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Feifei, do I have to present this programme today?
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Feifei: Why, what's wrong?
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Rob: Well, I've done so much work already
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and according to my watch, I should be having
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a coffee break now.
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Feifei: Really! Rob's being lazy because he
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was out late last night.
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Rob, there is a phrase to describe your condition.
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Rob: Oh yes. Overworked? Energetic?
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Feifei: No - the opposite. It's bone idle -
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literally, you are idle right through to
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your bones. In other words, you are very lazy!
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Rob: It's a great phrase Feifei but that doesn't
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describe me. Look I've just
moved my little finger.
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Feifei: Ha ha! I think we
had better hear some more
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examples while you move the rest of your body.
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Examples: The doctor has told my brother
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to do more exercise,
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but he won't do it, he's bone idle.
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You're bone idle - you've been at home all day
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and you're still in your pyjamas!
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My boyfriend's bone idle -
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he won't even get off the
sofa to answer the phone.
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Feifei: So the phrase 'bone
idle' means very lazy -
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like Rob! Hey Rob, I hear it's Dan's birthday
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today and he's brought a
cake in for us all to share.
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Rob: Cake! I love cake -
great, come on let's get some
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before it all eaten.
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Feifei: Ah, you're moving now -
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but you're not going anywhere
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until you've finished this programme.
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Rob: Come on then, tell me what to say.
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Feifei: Just read this script.
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Rob: OK let me see. Hold on, the script says
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that you're about to say 'it's not Dan's birthday,
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it's a joke.'
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Feifei: Sorry Rob, it is a joke -
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but it did stop you from being bone idle!
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Rob: Right, that's it. I'm not going to do
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anymore work for the rest of the day.
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Feifei: No change there.
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Rob, I've got a new name for you.
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Rob: What's that?
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Feifei: Lazy bones.
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Rob: You're cruel.
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Feifei: Bye.
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Rob: Bye-bye.
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