Meaning of I DROPPED THE BALL - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So I dropped the ball.
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It is 12:08 on a Monday I didn't do a one
minute English lesson for you guys yet, so
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in English we would say I dropped the ball.
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So I thought that would be a good saying to
do.
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In English if we say, "I dropped the ball!",
it means that we didn't finish something or
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succeed at something that we said we were
going to do.
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The day got away on me.
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That's another great saying by the way.
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The day got away on me.
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We were really, really busy on the farm today.
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We spent a lot of time making hay to feed
to our animals through the winter, and because
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of that I didn't get in the house until midnight
and then I realized that it was already after
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midnight by the time I got my camera hooked
up.
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So sorry, but I dropped the ball.
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