English Vocabulary Boost: 25 “LET’S” Imperatives in English

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hey alex are you doing another english
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lesson
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why yes i am paper head it's funny you
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should ask that
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what is it about well i was gonna do it
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about uh 20 common let's phrases
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what yeah let's you can use it in a
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variety of situations
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that sounds useful it definitely is
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paper head
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it definitely is okay i'll just watch
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from
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over there over here yeah
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i have no body so can you just like put
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me down
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yeah no problem no problem
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very chatty that person see a paper head
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just watch and learn all right let's do
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this
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hey everyone i'm alex thanks for
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clicking
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and welcome to this lesson on 20 common
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let's phrases in english the language
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that i will give you
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in this video is incredibly useful
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for your daily life these are
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imperatives
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that you can use and that you will hear
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in a variety of different contexts
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you can use some of them to encourage
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and motivate people
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and you can use some of them to well
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let's find out what you can do with them
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starting from the top
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i grouped these ones together because
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they are all meant to kind of
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motivate action inspire action
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encourage action so let's go
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okay you are trying to say me you
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her our group you're trying to inspire
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them to follow you so you say
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let's go next
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this is a phrase that i used to use and
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still use
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all the time before i entered an english
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classroom
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so as an english teacher sometimes
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i have 10 minutes between a class to
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have a break
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and i have to get my materials ready my
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books
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i have to review things very quickly and
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say okay
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yes it's present perfect day today and
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then when it's like
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one minute before class starts i would
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say
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all right let's do this and sometimes my
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colleagues would laugh and they would
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like it i think so
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let's do it let's do this let's do that
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and one of my favorites
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let's do this thing so this thing can be
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whatever activity it is that you need to
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do
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next right this is more informal
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it is slang so you say all right let's
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do this thing
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let's make it happen next
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let's get to work again all of these
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just mean
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let's get started let's get to work
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let's do this
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let's do it let's do this thing next
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let's check why don't we verify
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that right so you can check information
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so what year was bono the lead singer of
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you two
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born in i don't know let's check
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we can check on our phones or on our
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computers right our
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laptops or tablets etc
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all right you can also say let's check
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it or
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let's check it out now let's check it
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out
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is different than let's check right
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let's check
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means like let's verify which i
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mentioned before
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let's check it out means let's inspect
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it
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or let's try it let's sample it
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so if you're walking down downtown
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and you're looking for a place to eat
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lunch and you say
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i don't feel like eating there or there
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oh that's a new place do you want to
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check it out yeah
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let's check it out let's go let's do
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this thing
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right next i put these
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ones with the verb try in one category
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let's try let's attempt this right
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so try means to attempt something or
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to sample something that something could
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be an
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activity it could be a food a drink
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it can be almost anything that you can
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attempt
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or try or sample so you can also say
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let's try it
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let's try it out right so if you're
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shopping for a bicycle
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and you know you find one and you like
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it and you're like okay
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well it's not bad but i want to try it
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all right let's try it out let's see how
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it goes right
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uh let's try again later all right
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so if you're calling a restaurant or a
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store
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and no one picks up and you say ah
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no one picked up or it was busy okay
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well
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let's try again later right so you're
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encouraging the person to try again
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later
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next let's try something else
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so what we're doing isn't working or i
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don't like the thing that we're doing
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right now
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let's try something else so imagine
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you're playing
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um a new video game or a new board game
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with some friends
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and your friends seem kind of bored and
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they're like
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eh let's try something else i'm not
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having a good time or
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this game isn't for me next
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let's begin let's start similar to
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let's go right whatever it is it can be
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at the beginning of a work meeting for
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example
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the person who is in charge of the
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meeting might say okay
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everyone is here let's start
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let's begin let's start the meeting
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let's go
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next let's stop there
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let's stop here let's stop here for now
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let's stop there for now so this can be
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a variety of contexts of course so let's
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stop
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literally stop so if you're driving in a
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car
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and someone needs to go to the bathroom
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right
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uh let's stop here so you want to stop
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the car
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because you need to use the bathroom
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going back to the workplace context if
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you're
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in a meeting and the meeting is going
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very long
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and you think uh we should take a break
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we've been talking for 90 minutes now
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and maybe the person leading the meeting
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will say you know what
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i see everyone is a little tired or
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hungry uh
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let's stop here for now and we'll come
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back
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in 15 minutes so they're just telling
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you you know what
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we are going to stop here let's stop
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there let's stop here
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for the moment and we will continue
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again
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in a few minutes next i'll move over
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here
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let's move on so to move on
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means to move to the next part of
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whatever it
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is you are doing or talking about
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usually this is used again very commonly
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in a business meeting context so you're
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talking about one topic
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and maybe you have spent already 20
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minutes discussing one thing
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and you have talked about it as much as
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you can
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and the person says you know what we've
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talked enough about this
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let's move on we have a lot of things to
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discuss
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today let's continue on to the next
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topic
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so let's move on down the list let's
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keep going
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okay so let's keep going let's keep
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moving forward
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so again let's go back into the business
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meeting and
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the person who is in charge of the
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meeting might say
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is everyone okay should we stop
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and everyone says i'm good yeah i'm okay
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too
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okay let's keep going let's keep going
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for it for another 30 minutes or
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let's keep going for another 15 minutes
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before we stop
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next let's make sure so
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to make sure means to check and make
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certain of something so if you can
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you can say let's make sure by itself
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you can say let's make sure it works
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okay so
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if you are a software developer
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and you just created you know a new
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little program that you're running
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and you want to tell everyone's like all
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right let's make sure it works
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let's let's test it let's try it
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let's make sure that's true okay
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so if you are a big company or even a
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small company
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and you want to post a new story onto
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your social media feed or
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your website and somebody in your
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company says
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i don't know if that information is
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accurate i don't know if that
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information is correct
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let's make sure that's true before we
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post it
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it's like no but it makes us look good
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yeah but
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it will make us look bad if it's not
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true so let's make
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sure let's check let's make certain
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that it is true let's see
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you know what that means right so
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let's wait and see and let's see very
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similar
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um so you can you know if you are
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waiting for a pizza in the oven and you
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put it for
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12 minutes and you know one of your
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friends is very eager to eat the pizza
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and they're like oh i want to look now
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you're like it's 12 minutes
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like let's let's wait and see okay it's
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not ready yet
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we can wait a little longer and you can
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see it after
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alright so let's see what's happening
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over there
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let's wait and see and see what happens
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like in the game
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if you're watching a game for example
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okay the next two
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these are similar to let's try something
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but they are more idiomatic and they are
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more informal
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so you can say let's give it a go
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or let's give it a whirl alright so
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whirl or swirl
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would be like this something that's
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turning around really quickly
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um if you give something a go if you
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give something a whirl
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it means that you're trying it okay
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so you can also say i didn't write it
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here but it just came to me
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let's take it for a spin so if you take
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something for a spin
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you try it when you're shopping for a
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new car
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unless you're very certain that i know
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this car is excellent
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it's exactly like a car i have driven in
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the past
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most people take a test drive of the car
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they plan to purchase
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so they will say all right let's give it
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a whirl
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let's give it a spin let's give it a go
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let's try it all right if you have um
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a plan or an idea right you and your
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friends are
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going camping and you have
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you know a path that you know in the
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forest
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and you you think okay if we take this
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path
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i think we can get back to the
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campground
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before the sun goes down and still have
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a full day
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like okay well let's let's give it a go
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let's see what happens
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all right let's let's try it all right
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next
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let's meet up um so this is an
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invitation that you're giving to a
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person
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you after let's meet up you can also
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give a time
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or you can give a location so let's meet
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up
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at nine let's meet up at the theater
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let's meet at this place or at this time
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let's get out of here okay so if you
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have been
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at your job all day and you've worked a
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lot of
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overtime maybe this is your 12th hour or
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16th hour
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um on the job and you're just so
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exhausted and you say
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you know what let's get out of here
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let's leave
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this place it's also you know if you're
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uncomfortable in a situation
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comfortable in it
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you can say yeah i don't feel
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comfortable let's get out of here
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let's let's leave let's go all right
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and finally let's call it a day
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so to call it a day means to end a
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period of activity
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going back to let's get out of here
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let's call it a day means you know what
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i'm tired
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let's call it a day that's enough for
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now
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will continue tomorrow it doesn't have
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to be
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only at the end of a work day but the
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most common
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context where this is used is let's call
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it a day
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if you are in a work meeting as well the
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person who is organizing and running the
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meeting
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like at the end of the day
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say you know what
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let's stop there for now let's let's
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call it a day
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we're not going to talk anymore about
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this you know we've said as much as we
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can say
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you have gotten as much information as
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you can get right now so
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let's call it a day let's stop and
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we'll continue on tomorrow so
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that's a lot of information very quickly
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i just want you to repeat after me all
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right
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speedily
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let's see
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let's meet up
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