{"id":176,"date":"2020-01-11T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/laa\/?p=176"},"modified":"2020-01-10T13:53:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T21:53:59","slug":"crazy-american-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/laa\/2020\/01\/11\/crazy-american-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy American Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I’m Beat”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (I’m super tired)<\/p>\n

“He hit it out of the ballpark!”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(he did amazingly well)<\/p>\n

“Don’t flake out”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (Don’t fail to show up!)<\/p>\n

“Let’s go Dutch”\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(split the bill and each pay half)<\/p>\n

It’s one thing to learn a new language, it’s another to submerge yourself fully into the culture where that language is spoken.\u00a0 We U.S. Americans use some pretty ridiculous phrases!\u00a0 So next time you are “down in the dumps” because you can’t figure out a slang phrase,click over to\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/idioms.thefreedictionary.com\/,<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0look it up!<\/p>\n

Interested but don’t have any specific phrase to research?\u00a0 Before you “take off,”\u00a0 check out this article where you can learn 25 phrases that you probably didn’t learn in your English Class back home.\u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/www.weareteacherfinder.com\/blog\/english-idioms-colloquialisms-guide\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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