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Speaker 1: Today I have a podcast for you that's all about

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the end. I hope you can stick around until the

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tale end because by the time we are at the end,

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you'll know the difference between in the end and at

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the end. That should put an end to your confusion.

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Let's dive in.

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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: Alrighty, thank you John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael here

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from Happy English and I help people speak English better.

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

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The end. English is a language rich in idioms and

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figurative expressions. This makes the language both interesting and complicated

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at the same time. Today, let's look at some common

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conversational phrases that use the word end. We'll start by

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looking at at the end and in the end, two

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phrases that can be hard to get. So let's get

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the ball rolling at the end. We use at the

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end when we want to talk about the final part

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of something like a book or a movie, or even

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the day, like I always feel tired at the end

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of the week. At the end of the movie, the

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couple got married and lived happily, ever after, Ah, that's

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at the end, the final part of something. You're describing

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a specific point where something finishes. Now in the end

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is a bit different. In the end is used to

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talk about the final result of a situation, often after

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a long process. When you say in the end, it's

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like saying finally or after everything, Like they worked hard

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on that project and in the end they achieved their goal.

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Last weekend, I couldn't decide whether to clean out the garage,

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clean out the closets, or clean out the attic. In

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the end, and with the help of two of my buddies,

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I got everything done in the end. It's a great

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phrase to use when you're telling a story or explaining

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a decision. Next, we have I have a dead end.

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When you're driving or walking. A dead end is a

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road that doesn't go anywhere, and as an idiom, we

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use dead end to mean a situation where you can't

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make any more progress. Like I've tried everything to get

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my computer to work faster, but I just got to

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a dead end. I guess I'm just gonna have to

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upgrade from Windows ninety eight. Tommy tried everything to get

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that new customer to sign the contract but they just

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reached a dead end. And let me tell you something,

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the boss wasn't happy. And speaking of bosses, we have

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the phrase a dead end job. When someone has a

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dead end job, it's a job that has no chance

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of promotion or improvement. Almost fifteen years ago, so I

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quit a dead end job at a language school and

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started my company, Happy English. And to be honest with you,

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one of the reasons that I quit that job was

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because I was at the end of my rope. When

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you are at the end of your rope, you feel

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frustrated or you don't have any more patience. It's like saying,

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I can't handle this anymore. I'm at the end of

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my rope. After dealing with my new noisy neighbors for weeks,

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I'm at the end of my rope. The next time

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they have a wild party at night, I'm going to

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call the police. And I'm pretty sure that calling the

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police on those guys is going to put an end

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to my troubles. Put an end to something means to

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stop something completely. Like when I I was twenty five,

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I put an end to my cigarette smoking habit. Boy,

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am I glad I did that? Then recently in New

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York City, they started something called congestion pricing, which is

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like a toll for driving your car in the main

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part of the city during the day. According to the

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news reports, it seems like that put an end to

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a lot of traffic. The next one on the list

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is end up. We use end up when we talk

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about finding yourself in a situation, often without planning it,

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Like last night, I couldn't decide what to cook for dinner,

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and so I ended up down the block getting some pizza.

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What did you end up doing for dinner last night?

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You know? I often talk about my coworker Jack, and

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he's always coming to work late. Well, yesterday he missed

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an important meeting with a client, and the boss told

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him that if it happens again, he's going to end

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up getting fired. And now we're at the tail end

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of this lesson the tail end. An animal has a tail, right,

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and the tail is basically at the end of the animal.

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So we use the phrase the tail end to refer

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to the last part of something like I caught the

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tail end of the comedy show on TV last night,

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but it was still great. And I remember when we

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were kids, my father would take us to the baseball game.

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He always wanted to leave the stadium at the tail

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end of the game to avoid the traffic. Keep in mind,

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the best way to remember vocabulary like this and any

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other word or phrase in English is to take that

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word or phrase, write it in a sentence that's true

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for you or true in your world, and then memorize

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seven eighty eight. Remember, learning another language is not easy,

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