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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 112. The noun phrase today is

  • beer belly. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. A beer belly could also

  • sometimes be called a beer gut. So you can either say beer belly or beer gut.

  • Okay. Let's continue. If a man has a beer belly.

  • Yeah. We usually only say beer belly with men. We don't say beer belly with women.

  • So if a man has a beer belly, he has a protruding ... protruding you know,

  • it's really sticking out. Protruding belly from too much beer drinking. Some

  • say it looks similar to the belly of a pregnant woman. So of course men cannot

  • get pregnant but when they have a beer belly they can almost look a little bit

  • like they are pregnant. It's protruding in it in a similar sort of a way. Okay.

  • Let's continue. One can also use the adjective phrase beer-bellied as well

  • like you know, it comes directly from the noun phrase beer belly. All right and let's

  • look at three examples we have here. Example number one. You need to start

  • exercising. You really need to get rid of that beer belly. So this is somebody who

  • already has a beer belly. Maybe the wife or somebody else in the family is

  • telling him, you got to get rid of that.It looks bad. Okay. Number two. You should cut

  • down on your beer intake. You know, how much you're taking in. You are starting

  • to get a beer belly. All right. These are typical ways you hear it used. And number

  • three here. This is the adjective. That beer-bellied construction worker was

  • making wolf whistles at me. Yeah. We've talked about this before. Remember I

  • covered a noun phrase a long time ago about wolf whistles. That's you know , when

  • some guys will whistle out a pretty girl that goes by like a (wolf whistle sounds ) you know, like that.

  • So that is a wolf whistle. So the construction ... the construction worker, the

  • beer-bellied construction worker was making a wolf whistle at her. Anyway,

  • I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for your time.

  • Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 112. The noun phrase today is

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英語導師Nick P名詞短語(112)啤酒肚 (English Tutor Nick P Noun Phrase (112) Beer Belly)

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