Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Words of Today (Using Coupons and Rebates)

ESL Podcast 434 – Using Coupons and Rebates
  • cut corners: save cost or time
  • That’s what you think.
  • putting me on: cheating me - Are you putting me on?
  • worth the wait.
  • mess around: I’m too busy to mess around with coupons and rebates.
  • penny-pincher: A person who saves cost very much / stinginess.
English Café 166
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • landmark decision
  • enroll - join (to a school)
  • desegregate - stop distinctions
  • hairdos - hair styles
  • down to the wire - hard even till the last / He kept studying right down to the wire (eijiro)
(9:12 - 9:25)

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