It's an absolute shocker out there today! ☀️🔥🌩 Conversational English

18 January 2021

Good morning all,

Here's a quick conversational phrase you can start using right away 👌🏻

When it's 29°C with 69% humidity by 9 a.m., you can confidently go around saying 👇🏻

🔹️ It's a shocker [out there] today!

'Shocker' means something shockingly bad, horrible

In this context the phrase means: It's terribly hot (and/or humid) out there today!

To add intensity, use words like absolute / real 👇🏻

It's an absolute shocker out there!

It's a real shocker out there today!

🎶 And of course, don't forget about stress and intonation for additional emphasis

📎 Insert [out there] if you're saying this phrase when you're indoors

📎 Leave it out if you're are saying it whilst actually being outside

Have a great day, everyone! 🙋🏼‍♀️

Victoria

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