Visual Vocabulary - Your Guess Is As Good As Mine - Speak English Fluently and Naturally
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Welcome to Visual Vocabulary, the new animated
series from EnglishAnyone.com that helps you
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learn useful English expressions the same
way native speakers do so you can master them
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quickly, AND start using them confidently
in your conversations today!
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Today’s expression is “Your guess is as
good as mine.”
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This very common phrase lets you say that
you don’t know or understand something,
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but in a more native-sounding way.
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Imagine looking at a complex math problem
on a board with a friend.
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Neither of you enjoys math, and has no idea
about how to solve the equation.
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When your friend asks you what you think the
answer is, you can only guess.
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So by telling him that “Your guess is as
good as mine,” you’re saying that you
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don’t know, and any answer you might say
has the same chance of being correct as anything
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else.
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Your guess is as good as mine.
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Your guess is as good as mine.
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“Your guess is as good as mine” is a phrase
you can use in both professional and casual
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situations:
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A: Do you know how to put this bookcase together?
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I just got it and it has no instructions.
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B: No idea.
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Your guess is as good as mine.
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A: Your guess is as good as mine, so what
do you think we should do about the problem
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at work?
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B: I wish I knew.
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Let’s ask Bob.
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He always knows what to do.
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A: Ted’s opinion is as good as mine, so
ask someone more knowledgeable.
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B: Sounds good.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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A: Maybe we shouldn’t eat this.
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Can you tell what’s in it?
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B: Your guess is as good as mine.
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Well, that’s the end of this lesson.
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But if want to continue getting fluent in
a way that removes the guesswork from your
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learning, take our free English fluency test
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