Learn the English Phrases TO PULL YOUR WEIGHT and TO PULL A FAST ONE

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In this English lesson,
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I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,
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to pull your weight.
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When you pull your weight,
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it means that you are on a team
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and you are doing the same amount of work
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as the rest of the team.
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Or you are working with a group of people
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and you do the same amount of work as everyone else.
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So when you pull your weight, it's a good thing.
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Sometimes when you are on a sports team
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everyone else plays really hard and you don't
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and we would say that you aren't pulling your weight.
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Sometimes at work you're on a team with three people
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and everyone does the same amount of work.
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We would then say that you are pulling your weight.
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So it's always good to pull your weight.
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People really appreciate it when they work
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with other people that pull their weight.
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I think it's super important.
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I've worked with people that don't pull their weight
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and that can be really, really frustrating.
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The other phrase I wanted to teach you today
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is the phrase to pull a fast one.
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When you pull a fast one on someone
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it means you play a trick on them
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or you play a practical joke on them.
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Sometimes I pull a fast one on Jen.
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I play little tricks on Jen
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but usually in a good way.
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I do it like this.
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Sometimes there's a job that Jen needs to do on the farm
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and I will tell her that the job's not done
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even though I already did the job
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so that when she goes to do the job she sees that it's done
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and then she kind of laughs.
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So I let her think she still has to do the job
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even though I already did it.
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I do this sometimes with our vehicles too.
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I'll pull a fast one on Jen.
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I'll tell her that the van needs gas.
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So if she's going to the grocery store
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I tell her you need to stop and get gas as well
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even though I already filled it up.
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And then when she gets in to leave
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she notices that the fuel gauge or the gas gauge is on full
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and I think that makes her smile.
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So sometimes I pull a fast one on Jen.
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I played little tricks but in a good way.
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So to review, when you pull your weight
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it means you do your job well,
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you do the same amount of work as everyone else in the group
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or on the team.
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And when you pull a fast one on someone
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it means you trick them
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or you play a practical joke on them.
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But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
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This comment is from Tan.
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And Tan says, hi, Bob, sorry, my bad
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I haven't had time to watch your videos in recent days
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because I've been preparing for my examination.
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Thank you once again for your awesome lecture.
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And my response is,
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I understand life gets busy sometimes.
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I wish you all the best.
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So thank you Tan for that comment.
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And that's absolutely no problem.
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There is no obligation to watch these videos.
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It's totally understandable.
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Life does get busy sometimes.
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I have the same thing, even though it looks like
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I easily put out all these videos.
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Sometimes it's a little challenging
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because life gets busy, right?
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There's things to do.
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Places to go, people to see, we sometimes say in English.
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So totally no problem.
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And I do want to wish you all the best on your examination.
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I'm not sure if you did it already or if it's coming up?
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I'm imagining it's probably some kind of English test
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but maybe it's a driver's test or some other examination.
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I hope it goes well.
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In fact, right now it is exam time at my school.
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So I am a teacher, exam time for me is really nice
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because students write exams and then I grade them.
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There's no stress for me, but for students,
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exam time can be quite stressful.
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So I certainly hope that my students
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at the school where I work have a good exam week.
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I hope that everyone else in the world
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who's learning English
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and has English examinations coming up does well.
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I hope you've studied a lot
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and I hope you just do really well on your examination.
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So anyways, it's Bob the Canadian here,
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hope you're having a good day.
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I will see you in a couple of days
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with another short English lesson.
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