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And they can't figure out the middle East, go figure
My animal is a tortoise they'll figure she likes Prince, go figure, go figure today's expression guys here on the Vocab man is "go figure" really, fo figure Actually go figure has many different meanings. So the dictionaries tells you. Slightly different definitions.
For instance, the Oxford languages. It is an informal North American expression said to express the belief that something is amazing or incredible.
If you already know the vocab man. Then you know that I am a fan of the urban dictionary in which actually people can give their own definitions there. So the top definition for go figure goes like that, A remark made to something said that is typical or falls under Murphy's law.
Great. Nice activity.
Go figure.
She likes Prince go figure.
If you have your own examples to use the expression, go figure you can send them in at my
fluentpodcast@gmail.com. So where did I come across the expression? Go figure actually, I discovered it in a Netflix series. I am currently watching called the queen scam bit.
It's about a chess prodigy. And now let's have a closer look at the scene, which takes place in an orphanage
where the main character Beth Harmon lifs in a quick side note here, an orphanage is at a residential institution, or let's say like a group home devoted to the care of orphans and other children who were separated from their biological family.
Whereas an orphan is a child whose parents have died or unknown or have permanently abandoned them.
So we have orphanage and the orphan.
All right. So now imagine this situation, many orphans are all standing a queue. Waiting for having their pills.
And at this point, you need to understand that the orphanage here in the movie used to distribute tranquilizers. I mean, pills to their orphans in order to keep them quiet. And apparently the public found out about that. So when now in the scene at the Madison window, the main character, Beth looking a bit confused.
It looks into her cup and sees only one single pill. Usually she is supposed to receive two of them. There's one missing. That's it. Next! It's my turn. Harmon. Where are the green ones? You don't get them anymore. There they are right behind you. I know where they are. I'm not going to give you any new state law and no more tranquilizers for kids.
Go figure,Harmon, go thou further off, made me farewell. And let me hear they go in what beat it.
And I found this scene was really great. And it also showed that the main character is going to have a lot of problems. I mean soon Beth will suffer from withdrawal symptoms and I absolutely recommend you to learn English by watching series. For example, with Netflix red letter N unfolds into a spectrum of colors, Because over there you have always the subtitles in it, which can support you in the process of learning.
And did you notice right away there was another great expression BEAT IT it's another way of saying to go away, but it is slightly harder than
but that my friends is a complete other story. And you might learn more about it in another episode of the Vocab man. My animals, a tortoise go figure.
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