1147 Daily Easy English Lesson PODCAST—in a roundabout way
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Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to Easy English Expressions. Come on, let's master English!

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression, the podcast. Coach Shane here. I hope you've been doing well. I actually have had a cold. It was really bad. It took my voice for several days. I'm feeling better, I would say, 85%, 90% right now today, especially this evening. I'm feeling

My health really seemed to turn around. So that's good news for me. I hope you are healthy. Yeah, so it's, you know, you got to take care of yourself. And I do. I eat well, you know, but it happens. You know, we get sick. Today's expression is really, really great. This is the phrase. In a roundabout way. In a roundabout way.

Four words. In a way. W-A-Y. What's that big word? Roundabout. I'll spell it. R-O-U-N-D-A-B-O-U-T. Roundabout. So it's like the word round and the word about. So in a roundabout way, what does this mean? It's actually really simple.

The definition, and I'll give you the definition after we check out the dialogue. And I got to tell you guys, this is, I just took advantage of this and I want you to take advantage of it. I talked about magic mind. This is the stuff that keeps me mentally clear. I've got two monkeys outside my office, my two boys. We've got so many things going on right now.

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He never tells me. He just says it in a roundabout way. How? Like when he said, I like being bored with you. That's his way. Aw, yeah. Guys, is it easy for you to say I love you to your girlfriend, to your wife? Yeah. Is it easy? Me? What do you guys think? Do you think I say I love you? Yeah, probably not enough, right?

I say it to my boys. No, no, I actually, I do say it quite a bit. I would say I do say it quite a bit. But you know that really like look in the eyes type thing? I love you. Yeah, I'm not... I don't do that. That's weird to me. But yeah, I mean, I married my wife. Of course I love her. I got my two monkeys. Of course I love them. And I love you. I love you. I really do. But if you're...

Kind of like me and well, maybe worse than me. If you don't say I love you, then how does the other person know that you actually love them? That's a good question because some people want to hear those words. So maybe you show your love or maybe you say I love you in a roundabout way.

in a, or rather in an indirect way. If you say it directly, I love you. But if you say it indirectly, you might say, I like being bored with you. I like just sitting here with you. I like taking a walk with you. I like sitting on the couch watching TV with you.

I like having coffee with you. These are indirect ways of saying I love you between a man and a wife, right? Indirect way.

A roundabout way. That's exactly what it means. You go around the subject. What are you talking about? What are you going around and around? Let's kind of think about that. What are you talking about? You're going around and around to talk about how, in this case, you love the person. In a roundabout way. It doesn't mean I love you. In a roundabout way simply means an indirect way of

of saying something. So when a guy wants to break up with a woman, you know, the guy should say, I want to end our relationship. But many times the guy will say, you know, you deserve a better person than me. That's a roundabout way of breaking up. Just be direct.

Right, guys? Guys, you're direct, right? I'm sure you are. Ladies, my wife is so direct. My wife is so direct, it's scary. My wife is never... She thinks that I'm always saying things in a roundabout way. Am I? Oh my God, I hope not.

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He never tells me. Ah, he just says it in a roundabout way. How? Like when he said, "I like being bored with you." That's his way. Tim really loves you. He never tells me. Ah, he just says it in a roundabout way. How? Like when he said, "I like being bored with you." That's his way.