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hello everyone and welcome back to

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english with lucy today ah today I'm so

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excited about this lesson I've been

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excited since I wrote this lesson a

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couple of days ago today I am going to

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teach you 16 spiffing old-fashioned

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British idioms that are going to make

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you sound oh so fancy I think they make

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you sound really intelligent educated

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and well-read when you say them so

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learning them and saying them is no bad

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thing you'll also be able to understand

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them more when you hear them in

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old-fashioned movies or TV series that

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things right let's get started with a

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lesson number one is a little birdie

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told me it should be a little bird told

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me but my granddad always says a little

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birdie told me so that's what I say too

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and I think you should also a little

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birdie told me means a secret informant

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has told me someone has told me

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something but I don't want to say who

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that person is I'm protecting their

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identity this phrase is thought to

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originate from the Bible an example and

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little birdie told me that you went for

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afternoon tea with a mystery suitor woo

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number two ah this is a gorgeous one I

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love this one a fly in the ointment a

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fly in the ointment it's so expressive a

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fly in the ointment is a single thing or

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a person that is spoiling something that

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could have been very positive or

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enjoyable for example I'm looking

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forward to tomorrow the only fly in the

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ointment being that I'll have to sit

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next to my dreadful brother-in-law

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disclaimer both of my brother-in-law's

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to be are lovely and I would happily sit

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next to them tomorrow if they were an

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event number three I know I'm saying

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everyone is great but they are all

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really great because I picked them

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number three is as keen as mustard as

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keen as mustard if you are as keen as

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mustard it means you are very eager or

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very enthusiastic and interested in

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something for example she is as keen as

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mustard to get her hands on that tea set

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her mother promised her number four is

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to eat humble pie to eat humble pie this

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means to admit that you are wrong and

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apologize especially in situations where

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this is very embarrassing or humiliating

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for you for example I had to eat humble

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pie and publicly apologize for spreading

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vicious rumors about her gap year I made

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that up I don't spread rumors very often

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number five is pardon my french pardon

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my french

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this means oh please forgive my swearing

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basically the person who said a swear

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word is attempting to pass it off as

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French for example oh pardon my french I

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don't know what came over me

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number six another personal favorite of

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mine

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it is hanky panky hanky panky

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this is unethical behavior deceit or

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illicit relations make of that what you

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will for example I am certain that a bit

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of hanky panky went on at the wedding

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reception number seven this is a phrase

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I've used quite frequently actually it

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is to see a man about a dog

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this is a phrase that is used to

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apologise for one's imminent departure

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or absence especially if you're trying

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to conceal where you are going or what

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you're going to do for example I'm so

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sorry that I'm going to miss the rest of

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this delightful christening I have to go

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and see a man about a dog

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this would be me expressing to my friend

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that I cannot spend another minute at

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this dreadful event and I must go and go

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for a drink go out somewhere number

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eight is neither here nor there

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neither here nor there this means that's

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not relevant to the point or it doesn't

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matter for example yes it was our first

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date but that's neither here nor there

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number nine this is a phrase used by my

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grandma a lot not because she sleeps

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loads just something she's always said

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to go for 40 winks is to go for a short

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sleep or a nap without actually saying

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it because we're British and we don't

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like to say things directly for example

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I am just going to retire to the

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sitting-room and go for 40 winks it's

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not asleep it's 40 weeks number 10 is to

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turn a blind eye to turn a blind eye

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this means to pretend not to have

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noticed something for example I saw her

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take the last scone that I decided to

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turn a blind eye also yes I pronounced

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it as gone if you think it's going you

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can go nuts in the comment section I'm

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not willing to have an argument on this

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it's scon in my family number 11 is pot

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calling the kettle black pot calling the

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kettle black

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this means hypocrite this has been used

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since the 1600s and back in those days

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pots and kettles were both made out of

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iron and they were both covered in soot

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and they were always black so if a pot

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that is black is also calling a kettle

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black it's quite hypocritical for

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example you think I'm stuck-up pot

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calling kettle black you're stuck up to

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number 12 I can't do something to save

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my life I can't do it to save my life

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this is a hyperbolic way of saying that

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you are incredibly inept at something

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you are unable to do it well it's often

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used to express reluctance see an

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unwillingness to do something and it's

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used in a self-deprecating way very

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typically British for example if

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somebody asked me to make a Victoria

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sponge which happens to me most

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frequently but I didn't want to make it

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I might say oh I can't make Victoria

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sponges to save my life maybe your mum

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could make one done I don't have to make

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a Victoria sponge they think I can't

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make them just save my life number 13 is

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to get someone's goat to get someone's

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goat this means to irritate someone and

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the origins of this phrase are quite

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interesting there to do with horse

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racing in the 19th century

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supposedly nervous race horses would be

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calmed down by placing a goat in their

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stable with them but rivals would take

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or steal or get the goat thus making the

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horse nervous again and then hopefully

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the rivals horse would win the race for

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example you know who really gets my goat

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actually I'm trying to think of who I

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can say gets my goat on here really I'm

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perpetually scared of offending people

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there are so many people who get my goat

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but none of them

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are worth drama number 14 is to kick the

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bucket to kick the bucket this means to

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die in Britain we don't like saying that

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someone has died we like to say they

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have passed away or they have popped

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their clogs or they have kicked the

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bucket

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for example unfortunately my great uncle

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Arthur kicked the bucket last year

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number 15 is the apple of my eye the

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apple of my eye this is one you may have

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heard before it's very commonly used in

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America the apple of one's eye is

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something that one cherishes above all

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others the phrase was used in a

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Midsummer's Night Dream and it refers to

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a time when people thought that the

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pupil of the eye was a solid object the

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actual apple of your eye for example my

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William is the apple of my eye I wonder

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if he'll see this he claims to watch all

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of my videos I don't ask him - he claims

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- but let's see if he notices apple of

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my eye or you might not be after this

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number 16 I've saved the best for last

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and yes I have mentioned this in a video

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before but it was a very long time ago

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three years ago it is Bob's your uncle

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Bob's your uncle and this means as

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simple as that I'll use it all the time

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as simple as that well Bob's your uncle

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there you have it easy as that

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for example boil the kettle place a

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teabag in the cup fill it up with water

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let it rest for 2.5 minutes maybe three

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but no longer take it out - of skimmed

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milk Bob's your uncle

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cup of tea right that's it for my

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insults but you know maybe that's not

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by gesticulating number 11 is pot

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calling the kettle black pot calling the

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kettle basically in the 19th century

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fill it up with water less lest right

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that's it for right that's it for my

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