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Spoken English Day 28

Date: Mar 28 2011

Author: andylu2

Lesson

I just had 2 late night cups of coffee. Now I can't sleep. I knew that would happen but for some weird reason I did it anyway. Ha.

I thought I might as well be useful and write another lesson.

I just thought of the phrase, "I could see that from a mile away".

A "mile" is a distance. Americans use it. It is about 1.6 Kilometers. Anyway, the meaning of the phrase is that something was very predicable. Not surprising at all.

Here are a couple examples.

I can't believe that Steve is surprised his girlfriend broke up with him. Everyone else could see it coming from a mile away.

The home prices in the USA dropped a lot. Many economists could see this problem from a mile away but the government didn't want to listen.

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Comments

hjkimm71

South Korea

It's the cream of the crop of english lessons

murad ali

Yemen

it is so good—

Septebrina

Indonesia

Oh my God.. Thanks for sharing this.. Anyway, is that an idiom??

P.S. Well, I just saw that your post'd been tagged in Idioms and slang.. :))

BittersweeT

Germany

thanks very much

shokouh75

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

cool

lynn629

China

The teaching method of this lesson is by telling ur own story at the very beginning, i think it's a good way. It can make the lesson more easier to be understood.

Just my opinion.. thanks andy I will follow u and ur lesson..