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Hi, everyone. This is Bianca from China, and you're listening to Everybody ESL.
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Welcome to episode 463 of Everybody ESL.
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The podcast for everybody who wants to improve their English
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practice their English or just learn more English.
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My name is Ben and I have a mini episode for you today where I am going to teach you about one
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English topic. You can subscribe to the Everybody ESL podcast at Apple Podcasts and wherever you
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about it too. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for me please send an
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email to everybody ESL at gmail.com. Okay, let's get on with this mini episode.
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In this episode I am going to teach you an interesting and useful phrase.
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The phrase is rolled into one. Rolled into one. That's R-O-L-L-E-D-I-N-T-O-O-N-E rolled into one.
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What does rolled into one mean and how do we use it? We use rolled into one when we want to say
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that a thing or a person is like a combination of several things. That might sound a little bit
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confusing. I think it's a pretty simple idea. Let me give you a couple of examples that will
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explain how we use this phrase. Imagine that in your neighborhood they have just finished building
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a new community center. You go to visit this new community center and you see all of the things
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that it has. After taking a little tour you say this. The new community center is a swimming pool,
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a gym, and an art school rolled into one. It's a pool, a gym, and an art school rolled into one.
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In other words, it is a combination of these other things. The new community center is
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all of these things together. It's all of these things combined into one thing. I think the idea is
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that we can imagine these three different things that have been rolled up together. The community
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center is all of these different things combined or rolled together to make one thing.
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That's what the one means in rolled into one. The community center is a swimming pool,
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a gym, and an art school rolled or combined into one thing. The community center is a combination
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of these other things. Here's another example that shows how we use this phrase.
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Sometimes I think a parent is a teacher, a doctor, and a therapist rolled into one.
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Sometimes I think a parent is a teacher, a doctor, and a therapist rolled into one.
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In other words, sometimes I think a parent is all of these different things combined into one
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person, a teacher, a doctor, and a therapist. Again, rolled into one means combined, combined to
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make one thing. Something I should tell you about this phrase is that it is often used with the word
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all, A-L-L, all. Instead of hearing rolled into one, you will often hear all rolled into one.
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You can use this expression with all and without all. It means the same thing. All rolled into one,
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rolled into one. Both ways work. And that is rolled into one, an interesting and useful phrase
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that I think you should know. This is the end of episode 463 of Everybody ESL.
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Remember if you have questions about English, or if you have comments for me,
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or if you would like to record an introduction that I can play at the beginning of future episodes,
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the same way Bianca recorded the introduction you heard at the beginning of this episode,
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send an email to everybody ESL at gmail.com. I'll be back soon with a new episode and until then
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keep going, keep practicing, and keep learning. I'll see you soon. Goodbye!
