4 ways to exaggerate like a Brit - English In A Minute
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British people love to exaggerate. We say things
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aren't literally true in order to make an
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impact. We use 'forever' to say that something
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takes a very, very long time. 'Sorry i'm late.
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I was stuck in traffic forever.'
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We use the phrase 'dying for' to say that we really, really need
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something. Obviously, we're not literally dying.
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'I'm dying for a cup of coffee.' If something is
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hurting a lot, we can exaggerate using the phrase
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'it's killing me' or 'it's killing'. Again,
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we are not literally being killed.
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'My tooth is killing me.' We exaggerate by using very,
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very large numbers like 'thousands' and 'millions'.
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Again, this is not literal - it's
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just a way to say 'a lot'.
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'I'm so busy. I've got thousands of emails to reply to.'
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