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78 Up In The Air - Real life example by Stephanie Fuccio from the GEOPATS Podcast

The Vocab Man - Fluent Vocabulary

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Up in the air is a phrase that you really can't translate directly. Can you picture a coin, in whatever currency? It doesn't ter, but picture a coin going up into the air and coming down. In a lot of cultures that use english, tossing a coin like that, flipping coin like that,. is a way to make a decision. So when we flip a coin, if there's two people in this decision, which there usually is, some one will say, hey, heads or tails. And that means youre picking which id you want to be facing up.

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