字幕列表 影片播放 列印英文字幕 Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 252. The idiom today is at one's beck and call. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone is at another person's beck and call, he or she is compliant. It means they comply, that they follow. They don't resist. They are compliant and is expected to obey and cater to one's needs. It is usually meant in a negative way. You know, like that they're almost too demanding. It's like the person has almost become like a slave to them. Okay. Good let's continue. Well the word' beck' is an old use that was a shortened form or a certain version of the word 'beckon." Which meant to signal someone to come. To beckon someone , to come. So that's where you get beck and call. So some people say beck. Why beck ? What's beck ? Well beck was a shortened verb of beckon. You beckoned someone to come towards you. Okay . Good. Let's look at a three examples we have here. Example number one. The boss in the movie " The Devil Wears Prada " expected all her assistants to be at her beck and call. Yeah. I don't know if you remember that is ... that movie is about 10 to 15 years old now. But where Meryl Streep played the boss in this fashion magazine and she expected her you know, her assistants or her helpers to do anything. Long, but far beyond the nine-to-five work hours. She expected them to always be ready for her or do anything that she wants them to do. And some things ... you know were not even practical. She just wants them to try to figure out a way to do it. She expected them to always be at her beck and call. Okay. Let's look at number two here. The king expects his servants to be at his beck and call. Yeah, especially in former times. So this could just as easily be Queen you could say the Queen expects her servants to be at her beck and call. So yeah a lot of times royalty did expect their servants to be literally at their beck and call.They might beckon them to come and at their beck and call and do whatever they wanted them to do. All right. And number three here. In Japan during former times, geishas were trained to be at the beck and call of any men they were hired to entertain. All right. So this is the way we might hear the term beck and call. Anyway, I hope you got it . I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
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