Meaning of BACK-TO-BACK - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English when things happen back-to-back
it means they happen consecutively or one
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after another.
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You might have to look up the word consecutively.
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This is often used in sports.
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So maybe you have a favourite football team
and you have a favourite person on that team
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who scores a lot of goals, and sometimes that
person might score a goal and then they might
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score another goal within a couple of minutes.
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And we would say that they scored goals back-to-back.
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We hear this a lot in the game of baseball,
and I know not all of you watch baseball,
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but in baseball if you hit a home run it means
that everyone on the bases comes in to score.
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And sometimes people hit back-to-back home
runs.
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So it means that they come up to the plate
and they hit a home run, and the next time
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they come up they hit one again.
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