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Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts

04/03/2016

Chris Rock's Jokes


tux: tuxedo, a dinner jacket
outfit: A set of clothing, often with accessories

15/04/2015

Fired


Vocab
- candour:frankness
- candid: frank & outspoken
- to nod:to make a slight, quick inclination of the head, as in assent, greeting,..

12/02/2015

How to survive Valentine's Day if you're single


  Vocab:
Take heed: to consider someone’s advice or warning and do what they suggest
Mope: to feel bored or unhappy and show no interest in doing anything
Brash: cheekily self-confident and impolite
Smug: well satisfied, or too obviously pleased, with oneself
Sneer: to raise the top lip at one side in a kind of smile that expresses scorn or contempt
Sour grapes : criticism of something that you make because you are annoyed that you cannot have it
Pay through the nose:  to pay a lot, or too much
tat :anything that looks cheap, is of low quality, or in bad condition
Slushy programmes: Expressing emotions in an excessive, silly or embarrassing way
A knowing smile: showing that you know about something, even when it has not been talked about
A tacky teddy bear:  used about something that looks cheap and of poor quality or something that shows bad taste
Play the field: to have several sexual relationships before you choose a permanent partner

22/05/2014

Smokes

From the Third Episode of the First Season of "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Incredibly funny.
Vocab:
a git- a moron -a twat
a con man
pathetic- credulous - harmless -healing -soothing-

12/03/2011

George Carlin - Airline announcements

The truth about airline talk


VOCAB
bogus = fake
Dr Pepper = a soft drink brand name
Kahlua = a coffee-flavored liqueur

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