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hi welcome to number five of my 25
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bite-sized lessons which I'm making
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especially as a Christmas present for
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you
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so every day on the run up to christmas
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i'm releasing a new bite-sized lesson
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now today's lesson it's all about the
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word lip so you probably know that al it
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is one all these and together these are
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your lips
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one of them is a lip, your top lip your
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bottom lip and together your lips, now
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you can also call the edge of something
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the lip so the edge of a cup could be
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called the lip of the cup
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we can also use the word lip to me back
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chat or being cheeky
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so if I'm back chatting you being rude
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then I'm giving you lip and you can say
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hey don't you give me lip
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we also would describe someone giving
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lip as being lips. You're very lippy
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today madam. Some common phrases we use
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involving the word lip are as follows
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my lips are sealed this means i won't
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tell anybody or I'm not saying a word
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my lips are sealed usually when we're
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talking about keeping a secret
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please don't tell anybody up I worked my
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lips are sealed to pay lip service to
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this means to talk nicely about
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something so i might pay lip service to
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my mother because she looks beautiful
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this means I'm complimenting my mother
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because she looks beautiful to have a
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stiff upper lip
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this means to put on a brave face and be
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positive it was cold and raining and I
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felt miserable but I had a stiff upper
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lip and got on with it if someone
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punches you or you bang your lips and
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your lips swell up then you would have a
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fat lip
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oh are you all right
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only you have a fat lip is everything
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okay
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my brother gave me a fat lip when we
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were play fighting alia two white ones
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lip to bite one slit means to stop
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yourself from saying something so you
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might want to say something rude
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maybe to your boss if they're being
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particularly difficult but you know it's
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not a good idea
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so you bite your lip and stop yourself
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from saying it so i really wanted to
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tell my boss where to get off but i had
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to bite my lip because I knew it
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wouldn't be a good idea if someone is
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tight-lipped this means that they're not
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talking very much about a certain
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subject so i was speaking to my family
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about next summer holiday but they were
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very tight-lipped about the details so
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they didn't talk very much about the
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detail they're keeping things secret
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something maybe on your lips or on
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everybody's lips
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this means that everybody is talking
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about something or that you're talking
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about something
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so if we're at a film awards ceremony
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and one film is better than every other
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film and everybody's talking about it we
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can say this film is on everybody's lips
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tonight and finally we might say
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read my lips this means pay close
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attention to what I am saying
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read my lips I said no well I hope you
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found that helpful
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lots of new phrases around the word lip
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don't forget there will be a new video
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every day so do press that big red
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subscribe button and if you find this
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helpful
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why not give it a like or even a share
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yay thank you very much
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take care and goodbye
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