Meaning of JUST AROUND THE CORNER - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So when you live in a town you can have people
who live just around the corner from you.
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So if you think about one street meeting another
that person's house is maybe just around the
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corner.
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But in English we also use this phrase to
describe things that are coming in the near
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future.
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So for instance, my birthday is in July, so
in June, the month before my birthday, I could
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say to people, "My birthday is just around
the corner."
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Another way to describe it is, yesterday in
a comment someone said, "Spring is just around
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the corner.", and that was an excellent example
of how to use the phrase, "...just around
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the corner..."
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So once again here Winter is ending and Spring
is just around the corner which means it's
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coming soon.
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