I Dumped Him! | Learn Spoken English Expressions

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Hi, everybody. I'm Esther. 
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And in this video, we're going to  talk about an important expression,  
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especially for those of you  who are in relationships. 
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For those of you who have  a boyfriend or girlfriend. 
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And that expression is ‘to dump someone’. ‘to dump someone’ 
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Well, what do you think that means? Well, for those of you who are in a relationship,  
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maybe, you're not happy. Hmm 
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Maybe you don't love that person anymore, or maybe  that person is just really horrible, really bad. 
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So, what do you do? Well, you break up with them. 
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Right, you say, “I don't  want to be with you anymore.” 
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And that's where the expression  comes in ‘to dump someone’. 
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So, when you tell your boyfriend or girlfriend, “I don't want to be with you anymore,” you  
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are dumping them. Okay, so let's look at these examples first. 
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He dumped me. Hmm, he dumped me. 
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This is a sad situation, right? Maybe my boyfriend didn't love me anymore,  
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or maybe I did something that made him angry. So he dumped me. 
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He doesn't want to be with me any longer. Hmm, ‘I dumped him’. 
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The next sentence, ‘I dumped him’. This one is not so bad. 
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Maybe my boyfriend was really  bad, or he lied too much. 
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So I kicked him. I got rid of him. 
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I dumped him. Okay. 
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So, let's look at some more  example sentences together. 
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‘She dumped him because he lied to her.’ 
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‘She dumped him because he lied to her.’
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‘He dumped me I'm so sad.’ 
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‘He dumped me I'm so sad.’ 
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Okay, so in this video we learned  the expression ‘to dump someone’. 
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Remember, you can dump a bad boyfriend or  girlfriend, but they can also dump you. 
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Now, I want to tell you about  one of my ex-boyfriends. 
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He never had time for me. He was always busy. 
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And he couldn't talk or hang out. So, I had to dump him and it felt great. 
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Okay, well see you guys next time. Bye
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