Meaning of A RIP-OFF - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So there are two meanings to the word rip-off
that I want to look at today.
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The first situation where I would use the
word rip-off is to describe something that
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I think is way too expensive.
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Today I went to buy some things for my kids
for school because they are starting school
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again in a couple of weeks and I thought that
the pens were really, really cheap, but I
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thought the pencils were a rip-off.
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So you could buy 60 pens for $8, but you could
only buy 10 pencils for $8.
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So I thought that seemed like a rip-off.
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The second meaning to the word rip-off I wanted
to look at is to describe something that is
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a fake, or a copy, or a cheap imitation.
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Maybe you really, really like Calvin Klein
jeans and you find them very expensive.
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There's a good chance you could buy fake Calvin
Klein jeans.
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You could buy jeans that are a rip-off.
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