How To Use Brush It Off In Conversation
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm and today i’m going to tell
you a story about something bad that
happened that I needed to brush off and
secondly I’m going to explain this
expression brush it off let’s get
started this story took place last
February I was teaching a skype lesson
to someone in this room and at the same
time I was cooking some dinner in the
other room but I forgot about it
I forgot that I was I had turned on the
oven and that I was cooking I was
reheating some chili I think it was
chili on the stove so I was teaching my
lesson and the chili was reheating on
the stove and then in the middle of my
skype lesson I smelled something very
strong that smelled burnt and my husband
had just come home and he walked into
the kitchen and the kitchen was full of
smoke there was smoke everywhere because
my chili was burning to a crisp to a
crisp means really really burnt so the
chili was completely black I was
teaching my lesson and I didn’t want to
interrupt it so I just kept a teaching
on skype and I smelled the smoke I
smelled the chili and I thought oh it’s
a disaster but at least my husband just
got home he can fix the problem and I
can finish my lesson and it will be okay
so the kitchen was full of smoke and it
was the middle of the winter so my
husband tried to open the window to let
the smoke out but the windows were very
brittle brittle means very hard and easy
to break because in the winter sometimes
the glass gets really hard and if you
hit it the wrong way it might break so
you can imagine what happened the chili
is burning the smoke is filling the
kitchen and he tries to open the window
and the window breaks
so I hear the while I’m teaching my
lesson I hear glass shatter
and I didn’t hear my husband scream or
anything so I figured he’s probably okay
he’s not bleeding or really hurt and so
the chili is burning the kitchen’s full
of smoke the window is broken and I’m
trying to finish my skype lesson in a
few minutes my lesson finished and I ran
into the kitchen to see what happened
and he was okay
thankfully he just had a little cut but
the window was broken our dinner was
burnt and there was nothing we could do
about it you can’t change the past so we
just had to brush it off brush it off
brush it off is an expression to me
forget about it don’t worry about it
just think about it and get over it we
already talked about the expression get
over it in the video 5 get expressions
you had to just get over it so in the
situation we just had to brush it off it
was a problem yes our chili was burnt
the window was broken it was cold
outside and wind was coming in but we
can’t get angry about it you can’t get
upset about it you just have to brush it
off so my question for you is has there
been a time in your life when something
happened that was bad or annoying or
difficult and you just had to brush it
off you didn’t want to think about it
for a long time or get upset about it
for a long time or angry about it you
just had to brush it off thanks so much
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to you later goodbye
you