字幕列表 影片播放 列印英文字幕 Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 117. The noun phrase today is sticker shock. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. Sticker shock is the shock someone feels upon discovery of learning the price of something that was much higher than expected or could also be used with bills that have were unexpectedly high or much higher than you imagined it should be. You say ' Oh my God. " Kind of like that, where your eyes almost pop out. In that sense, we say that somebody gets sticker shock or has sticker shock or experiences sticker shock. You might be able to use all these verbs with it. All right. Let's continue. The origin of this term started in the 1970s when the price of cars suddenly substantially increased in cost due to government regulations or new government regulations. So they got some extra ones and high inflation. So it was a combination of both. The extra government regulations made the cars companies have to charge more money and there was a lot of inflation during the 1970s too, especially during the Jimmy Carter era. And of course the two of them combined together suddenly the price .... (people would start to say) Oh my God ! Cars cost that now. So they said that's when the term first started appearing. We said sticker shock. You know so stickers, sticker sometimes refers to like you know, like a price tag. So that's where the idea of this sticker came from. So and looking at it was shocking. So sticker shock. Okay. And let's ... we have three examples to cover this. When John received his yeah, received his hospital bill from a 10-day stay due to an accident, he receive... received sticker shock. Yes, especially if you're uninsured. If... you have no insurance or a lot of times your insurance might not cover all of us and it could be many thousands of dollars. A ten-day stay, it might be more money than you earned in a year could be your hospital bill. Like that. Ahhhh ! Again your eyes would pop out. You experienced or you received sticker shock. All right. Number two here. Many people claimed to experience sticker shock when the health care coverage cost vastly increased due to Obamacare. Yeah. I remember when that was happening. Reports on the news, they were offering. They were often using the term "sticker shock" that people were shocked that you know, and it seemed like every year their health care bills were going up twenty, thirty, forty percent per year. So they were they were experiencing sticker shock due to that. All right and now the last one here. I was thinking of buying a house in that neighborhood but when I checked out the prices I experienced sticker shock. Like (gasping ) "oh well sorry" I don't think I can afford to live in that neighborhood. So it was much more than expected or much more than you thought, so you received sticker shock. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it is clear. Thank you for your time. Bye- bye.
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