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IELTS Energy 204: The Highest Scoring Vocabulary to Move You to an 8

IELTS Energy English 7+

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The Importance of Having a Crutch

The last idiom we're going to talk about today, guys, is it's related to bicycles. Training wheels are the two little wheels attached to the back wheel to help it balance. In my experience, training wheels are horrendous. And you shouldn't use them because they're just more imbalanced. They're terrible. But anyway, those are training wheels. We use that as an idiom, well, a metaphor and an idom, right? To talk about having a crutch, having something you depend on that maybe you don't need anymore.

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