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Speaker 1: Have you ever been snowed under at work or in school?

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Do you tend to bundle up before going outside in

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a cold day? Have you needed to scrape off the

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ice from your car windshield recently? Today, we're gonna warm

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up your English with some winter frasal 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.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael

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here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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And this is Happy English Podcast, Episode seven eighty two.

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Winter frasal verbs. Yep, winter frasal verbs. I have a

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bunch of these that I'd like to share with you.

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Let's start off with a little story. It snowed hard

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last night and when I opened the curtains, the windows

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were frozen over. It seemed like I was snowed in.

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But because I'm so snowed under at work, I had

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to make it to my office somehow, So I decided

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to bundle up and head outside to start shoveling out

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my driveway. The wind started to pick up as I

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was doing that. Then came my car. I had to

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work hard to scrape off the snow from the windshield.

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That's when I realized that the car windows were iced over.

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Once the car was clean, I started the engine to

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warm up the car, and then I drove to work.

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By the time I got there, the wind to die

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down and the sun came out. That was a nice

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little story, wasn't it all right? Let's start off with

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two similar frasal verbs, freeze over and ice over. We

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use freeze over when we talk about the surface of

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something like a lake or a road becoming completely covered

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with ice. Like the lake is frozen over and people

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are skating on it. Now that's a winter scene. Or

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the bird bath in Emily's backyard froze over after the storm.

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I don't think the birds are gonna like that one.

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We also use ice over to emphasize that something becomes

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covered with a thin layer of ice. When I woke

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up in the morning, the windshield of my car was

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totally iced over, and the sidewalks iced over during the night,

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so they're very slippery. Next up, where there's ice in

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the winter, there's probably going to be snow, and that

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brings us to snowed in and snowed under. While being

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snowed in and being snowed under can cause a lot

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of problems. Only one of them actually has to do

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with snow itself, and that's snowed in. When you are

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snowed in, you're unable to leave a place because of

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heavy snow, like when Tom went skiing, he got snowed

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in at his cabin during the blizzard. My aunt lives

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in the countryside, so she always stocks up on food

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just in case they get snowed in. So snowed in

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means there's just two much much snow to be able

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to go anywhere, But snowed under actually doesn't have anything

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to do with snow itself. Snowed under means to be

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overwhelmed because you have too much to do, like too

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much work, too much homework, or too many responsibilities. Like

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Scott is an accountant and it's tax season, so he

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is totally snowed under with work. It seems like my

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sister has a lot of parties coming up, so she's

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snowed under with all of those holiday preparations. Speaking of snow,

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when it does snow, you're going to probably need to

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shovel out your driveway and scrape off the ice from

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your car. Shovel out and scrape off. Shovel Out means

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to remove snow from an area like a driveway or

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a sidewalk using a shovel. My neighbor Fred shoveled out

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his driveway so he could leave for work. I remember

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that snowstorm. It took hours to shovel out the sidewalks

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that day. And next up we have scrape off, which

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means to remove ice or snow from a surface like

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a car window. It seems like just about every morning

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I have to scrape off the ice from the windshield

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of my car. And this morning, when I got to

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the stop sign at the end of my block, there

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was a guy right there in the middle of the

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road scraping off the ice from his windshield. And one

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thing you definitely need to do on a cold day

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is to bundle up. When you bundle up, you dress

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warmly with layers of clothing to stay warm. Like when

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I walk the dogs, not only do I bundle up,

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but I bundle up my dogs in their little doggy

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winter coats. I mean, if you don't bundle up, you're

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gonna end up catching a cold. And finally, for today,

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let's talk about what happens during winter storms. We use

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pick up and die down when we talk about winter

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weather like wind and snow. When the weather gets stronger,

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we say that it picks up, like this morning. The

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wind started to pick up just before the snowstorm, and

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it was snowing lightly when I left the house in

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the morning, but it picked up in the afternoon. The

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opposite of pick up is die down. When something like

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wind or a storm becomes less intense, we say that

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it dies down. Usually when it snows, I wait inside

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until the storm dies down before going out. It's been

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really windy today. I hope the wind dies down soon.

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I hope this English lesson didn't make you too snowed under.

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With phrasal verbs, keep in mind the best way to

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