svetlana14
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01:12-01:17. What is the meaning of that episode? [
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Does "You were looking forward to this" mean that James point's out that the guest was looking for the right moment to have somethng sharky to say?He says "You think you're the bee's knees".
No, he means that the caller was looking forward to (happily anticipating) the conversation.Does "You were looking forward to this" mean that James point's out that the guest was looking for the right moment to have something snarky to say?
I think he means "Let's not let this conversation start to go badly so soon".And James - "not let it fall apart quite so early" tries to escape an argument?
And what is the phrase between "bee's knees" and "Richard"? The caller says that.He says "You think you're the bee's knees".
That's what I hear.To me it sounds like "incha mate".
I heard the same in general but I got thrown by its grammar aspect - "don't you". Should we use ""aren't you" instead to be correct?If said in full, it would have been "You think you're the bee's knees, don't you, mate?" However, as is often the case in very casual speech and in that speaker's particular accent, "don't you" comes out as "duntcher" (sorry, I don't do phonetic symbols), and even the "u" is very clipped. It actually sounds more like "d'n'ya". There's a glottal stop "t" between the "n" and the "ya".
No. The correct question tag for a sentence that starts with "You think ..." is "don't you?"I heard the same in general but I got thrown by its grammar aspect - "don't you". Should we use ""aren't you" instead to be correct?