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Speaker 1: Have you been bugged out recently? Has anything weirded you out?

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Have you been creeped out by anything or anyone lately? Well,

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don't freak out. Today's lesson is all about Halloween phrasal verbs.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast, coming to you from

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New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael all Ry.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Jan and thanks everyone. It's Michael here from

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Happy English and I help people speak English better. This

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is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven sixty nine, Halloween phrasal

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Verbs Today. I've got some phrasal verbs that will help

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you talk about your feelings and reactions related to Halloween.

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This vocabulary is really useful for sounding more natural. Let's

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dive in. Let's say you go to a Halloween party

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and maybe you're a little uncomfortable because it's in an

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old house on a dark street. Then you get to

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the party and there's a weird vibe. You don't know

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many people, and everyone is dressed up in scary costumes.

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It seems like the party bugged you out. Something bugs

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someone out, and it's not like full blown fear. It's

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just like, ooh, it's a little off. Yeah, that party

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was a little too much for me. Or maybe you

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get home from the party and you start hearing strange

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noises in the middle of the night that would totally

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bug me out. And what if you want to describe

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something that's like a little stronger, a little creepier, and

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makes you feel a little more uncomfortable, Well you can

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say that you got weirded out, or that something weirded

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you out. Weird Out is definitely a step up on

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the spooky scale. Weird Out is a feeling when something

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is just plain strange and unsettling. You know, it's like

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you're exploring an old attic and you find a dusty

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doll with one eye missing. The other eye is looking

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right at you. You'd be like, that doll really weirded

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me out. It's like something is not quite right here.

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It weirded me out. If you want to describe a

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more intense feeling, something may creep you out. When you

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get creeped out, you feel scared or uncomfortable, usually by

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something scary or even emotionally disturbing, like when you're watching

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a horror movie and there's a dark, shadowy figure lurking

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in the background and you're like, Ooh, that totally creeped

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me out. It makes you want to sleep with the

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lights on. That's the level of creep out. Like when

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I walk around this city after midnight and there's nobody

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else walking but me. Those empty streets in the city

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at night creep me out. What about if you walk

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into the kitchen at night, turn on the lights and

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suddenly you see something crawling across the floor. That would

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gross me out. Something that grosses you out makes you

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feel dis disgusted or even nauseated, Like when you open

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a package of cheese and you find out that it's spoiled.

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The smell of that cheese can totally gross you out.

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And that's why I don't like horror movies. Some of

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those bloody chainsaw scenes really gross me out. How about you?

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Does that gross you out? Do bugs gross you out? Okay,

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so we got bug out, weird out, creep out, and

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gross out. These are all like kind of negative and

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you can use them for those not so pleasant Halloween feelings.

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But Halloween's not all that bad, right for some people.

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There's a lot of excitement on that day, and don't

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freak out. But this phrasal verb has two meanings. Yeah,

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it can go both ways freak out can be positive

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or negative. Let's say your friend jumps out from behind

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a door wearing a scream mask. Yikes, you may freak

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out and scream in terror. Or if you get to

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work late, your boss may just freak out not exactly

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what you want at nine o'clock in the morning. But

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on the other hand, like if your favorite band announces

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a free surprise concert in the park, you might freak

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out with excitement. Or you tell your kids that you're

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gonna take them to Disneyland, I'm sure they'll freak out

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with joy. Freak Out is all about the intensity of

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someone's reaction and the context. Remember context is king okay,

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are you tired of being scared? Then you can totally

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take action with the next two phrasal verbs. You want

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to make sure that ghosts or other evil spirits stay away,

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you can do something to ward them off. Ward Off

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means to keep something bad away, or to protect yourself

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from something like. In the old days, people used to

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believe that garlic could ward off vampires. And I gotta

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tell you, considering the amount of garlic I use when

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I cook, it's no wonder that I've never seen a

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vampire in my house, and I remember when I was

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in Istanbul. You can always see the Turkish blue eye everywhere.

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They say it's supposed to ward off bad energy and envy.

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So ward off is about protection. It's about preventing something

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bad from happening. And then we have scare off, which

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means to make something go away by frightening it. That's

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why people decorate their houses with scary objects and creatures.

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They want to scare off evil spirits and make sure

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that they don't get bothered by them. On the practical side,

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if a wild animal like a raccoon comes near your

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house making a loud noise, maybe just what you need

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to scare it off and send it back to where

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it came from. Well, I hope that wasn't too spooky.

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Happy Halloween, and keep in mind the best way to

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remember vocabulary like this and any other word or phrase

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in English is to take that word or phrase, write

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it in a sentence that's true for you or true

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in your world, and then memorize your sentences and check

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this out. You need more experience practicing your English, well,

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