Okay welcome to the first dear Abby letter and this one is called meddling mother-in-law with the start of this is the vocabulary lesson for meddling mother-in-law here at MEDDLING mother-in-law meddling with meddling meddling means to interfere or to cause a problem with it for somebody else it means you get involved with another person's life when you should so for example the mother-in-law is causing problems for the wife she's doing things the wife should be doing she's causing problems for the wife's life is interfering she's sticking with a sticking her nose in her nose in it means she's stripping the worries about this shirt in the doing something that she doesn't so the meddling mother-in-law mother-in-law of course means the mother of your husband or wife this case mother of the husband so it's about laundry so the mother-in-law is doing the wife's laundry right this is none of her business she should not be doing the wife's laundry is not her own laundry since it's not her own laundry she's meddling she's meddling with the wife she's interfering with the wife she's doing things she's doing the wife's job IN the title says wife ready to wash her hands of meddling mother-in-law And other common phrase to wash her hands of four to wash your hands of two wash your hands of something or to wash your hands of somebody these are totally finished with them you will never do anything for them again you will never talk to them again you don't want to deal with them at all totally finished with so wash her hands of mother-in-law means the wife is ready to completely forget the mother-in-law break her relationship not talk to her anymore not see her anymore nothing she wants to wash her hands of the mother-in-law I you could say maybe you're tired of English right sick of English is that I wash my hands of English it means you will never study English again totally sickening that you'll never do it again ever speak it against their study the hopefully that's not true don't wash her hands of English ok wife ready to wash her hands meddling mother-in-law and down enough persons to
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dear Abby the first line to the mother-in-law is doing my laundry laundry means dirty clothes right laundry dirty clothes that need to be washed so if you do the laundry or do my laundry to do your laundry means you wash your dirty clothes doing the laundry means washing clothes for the mother-in-law's washing the wife's families close ancestors started when she was on bed rest is a common phrase to be on bed rest to be on bed rest phrase you learn the whole phrase to be on bed rest means you must rest in your bed all day you must stay in bed all day usually because you're sick or they will have some physical problems some problem with your body the doctor says you need to be on bed rest means the doctor tells you pay in bed rest in your bed all day is with on bed rest means and she was on bed rest due to her pregnancy due to means because of that little phrase to workplace due to her pregnancy means because of her pregnancy due to means because or because of the she was on bed rest for doctors that you're pregnant you need to stay in bed and rest on bed rest of that she said she didn't mind her mother-in-law would do an occasional load to help her out all load means an amount of load is an amount in this case a load of laundry it means in the amount of clothes you put into the washer right so you if you have them close you put one group of close into the washing machine that is one load of laundry after you wash it maybe you have more dirty close you put more clothes in the washing machine that's your second load right load number two if you have more clothes after that you put another one in now that now you have three loads of laundry so it's the amount of laundry that goes into the washing machine when time is a load of laundry and she expected them I said I didn't mind that but now she does it any time she's over to watch the kids so when she's over to watch the kids when she's over means when she's visiting we say a come over to my house come over to my house means visit my house so the mother-in-law says she is over to watch the kids it means she's visiting to watch the kids to help watch the kids come over or to be over it means to visit again and the woman says I'm very picky about my laundry picky that for the CK
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sample Key signals APD with the G and that the little animal rights Don't say that you think picky with a strong case is very picky about her laundry it means she has very very specific ideas about how to do laundry it means the laundry must be perfect must be done exactly one way so for example if I am picky about food it means I will only eat certain kinds of food the food must be exactly like I wanted I would stand picky about spaghetti if they bring some spaghetti some noodles right and geographic NOODLE it's too hard it's too hard and then the restaurant brings me more noodles I think I'll leave these noodles are too soft and the neighboring me more little effect Noodle are too hot and neighboring me more noodles are too cold for them is a very very picky right about noodles the noodles must be perfect for me means they must be one way only he must be exactly how I want them that means I'm very picky about noodles if I fail I don't care hard or soft hot or cold I don't care doesn't matter then I'm not ok this woman is picky about her laundry it must be washed exactly like she wanted a certain way maybe all the way close together all the ready close together all the dark close together must be this way she's very picky I and in the next little paragraph of the letter she says one time I told her not to do the laundry because I wasn't done sorting it to sort so RT to sort means to organize so it means you have a local group of things and you separate them and organize a separate and organize equal sort separating plus organizing both so you can imagine with close you have a a lot big group of close a lot of close a load of clothes and you you look at anything all this is a red one and you put it to the left and all this is a black one you put it onto the right and all this is white and you put it in another pile you are sorting them right your sorting them by color to white wins together the red ones together a black once together etc. that means your sorting your separating them and your organizing the us to sort you can sort by size all the big ones on the left side all the small ones on the right side separating and organizing by size usually with laundry we sort by color RIN and she said my mother-in-law took it upon herself to do the laundry anyway to take
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it upon your self or take it upon herself to take it upon himself it means you decide to do something without asking you don't ask permission you don't ask if it's ok you just do it yourself without asking so she took it herself she took it upon herself to do the laundry it means she did the laundry she decided to do the laundry but she never asked the wife is it ok is it ok can I do the laundry and I do your laundry she never did that she just decided she did it took it upon herself without asking the wife says the mother-in-law is very strong-willed strong-willed means a very strong mind it means you make a strong decision when you decide to do something you won't change your mind nobody can change your decision so if I decide I will eat pizza tonight and maybe you want to eat hamburgers and is a nonoperating let the hamburger that they don't pizza is a place, maybe it's something else maybe we can eat Italian I say ok but only picked up and used say well how about spaghetti I say the best pizza only pizza but I will not change I will not change my mind I him strong-willed with sometimes a stubborn stubborn is another word is very similar stubborn or strong-willed all right there etc. she says that the mother-in-law does not respect our parenting our parenting what does that mean parenting means how you take care of your children the rules you have for your children how you punish them how you teach them all of that raising a child we call that parenting you can use it as a verb to parents and it can also be in our parenting right so she sang the mother-in-law does not respect their parenting means the mother-in-law does not respect their rules up with the children the rules for the children she does not respect how they teach their children so the mother-in-law does not respect that she does not follow their rules ok and it finally the mother-in-law often takes things the wrong way to take something the wrong way means to miss understand usually in a negative way for example if you say J don't take this the wrong way by the English costs is a little boring like and then I get angry my client are you providing me why do you hate me like I take it the wrong way you don't hate me you don't want to be bad to me you are just adjusting something politely but I get angry I misunderstand
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right I don't understand what you're telling me I'd be side that you hate me I take it the wrong way so she's worried this wife is worried if she says something to the mother-in-law if she says please don't do my laundry she is afraid the mother-in-law will take it the wrong way the mother-in-law will think she's attacking her as criticizing her she doesn't like her like she will have a negative idea she will take it the wrong way she doesn't want the mother-in-law to take it the wrong way ok that is all of the vocabulary for this dear Abby letter I like the dear Abby letters because they're very short by a have a lot of video a lot of common conversational phrases a lot of phrases you never see in textbooks or learn in school but we use them and read a in speech so learn them see you next time bye.
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