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AE 1212 - Expression: Close But No Cigar

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Close but No Cigar

The word close has two different pronunciations depending on the meaning, right? So if you use this as a verb meaning to shut something, you would actually pronounce the S at the end of this word as a voiced Z sound. But when it's a, I guess here we're using an adjective, right? It was close, yeah. We're using it as an adjective. The vowel sound gets reduced, but, but, and the T gets muted because there's a consonant coming after it. This is used to say that a guess or an attempt at something was almost correct so ultimately you failed.

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