Meaning of AS FAST AS LIGHTNING - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So it's, uh, it's raining right now and sometimes
when it rains we have lightning and sometimes
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we have thunder.
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Thunder is the thing that goes "BOOM!" but
lightning flashes in the sky.
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And when you see lightning, lightning is very,
very fast.
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So we have a phrase in English that we use
to describe people and things and the phrase
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is "as fast as lightning".
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Maybe you have a favourite race car driver.
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Maybe you watch Formula 1, and you would describe
that driver as being as fast as lightning.
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We can also say it a slightly different way.
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We can say that someone is "lightning fast",
or we can even say that they're "lightning
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quick".
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So again, if you have a favourite race car
driver you could say that they are lightning
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fast when they go around the track or you
could say that they are lightning quick with
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their reflexes.
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