Let's Talk About Our Shadow — VOA Learning English
Topics: суспільство
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And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.
Let’s start today’s program with a riddle.
What follows you all day long, but when the night or rain comes, it is gone?
If you said your shadow, you are right!
This dark, flat image of yourself can seem huge and threatening, although you know it holds no power. But that image helps to explain this saying: someone is afraid of their own shadow.
We use this expression to describe someone who is afraid of everything, even very small things. So, this expression is a little bit of an insult.
First let’s hear two friends use this expression.
Hey, can you help me with something? I need to plant some flowers at a grave, but I need to do it…
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