Easy English Expression 0460 in the shop

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Check out EQ number 460. Let's go back in time. Today's expression is great. In the shop. In the shop. If something is in the shop, what does that mean?

S-H-O-P, in the shop. Does that mean it's like in the grocery store? Where can I get eggs? You can get eggs in the shop. Well, yes, that's possible. Where can I find underwear?

I need to buy some underwear. Oh, you can find underwear in the shop. Yes, that's possible. In the store, yeah. But no, no, no. Today we have a different meaning of in the shop.

And we use this expression when something is broken. That's right. If something is broken, it needs to be repaired. It needs to be fixed. So how do you get something fixed?

Let's say, for example, you have a refrigerator and it's a good refrigerator, but something's wrong and it needs to be fixed. So the refrigerator repairman comes to your house and says, oh boy, this is actually a serious problem. I need to take your refrigerator and

And fix it at my place. What do you call his place? The shop. A repair shop. Let's say you have a watch. A very nice watch. But the watch broke. It's not working.

So where do you take your watch? You take your watch to the shop. The watch shop or the watch store. Yes, of course. But we can also say the repair shop.

And we can get rid of the word repair. We can say the shop, in the shop. So you could say, Shane, you always wear a watch, but I don't see your watch today. Where is your watch?

Oh, it's in the shop. It's in the shop. It's in the repair shop. It is getting fixed. You come to my house. Shane, you don't have a refrigerator? Are you crazy?

No. No, no, no. My fridge is in the shop. It's being repaired. It's being fixed. Now, we use this with electric things, things with motors, things with engines, computers, refrigerators, watches.

And check out the dialogue. This is probably the most common example. Listen carefully. Did you walk here? Yeah. My car's in the shop. What happened? I don't know.

Something's wrong with the engine. There you go. If your car breaks, something happens to the engine, you don't know what's wrong, you have to get your car to the shop. The mechanic will check out the engine.

He'll find a problem and he'll fix it in the shop. In the shop. Your car is broken. Your TV is broken. Your fridge is broken. Your watch is broken. Anything with a motor.

Anything with an engine. Anything with moving parts. Can we say, let's say Shane was sick a couple weeks ago. He was at the hospital. Where's Shane? Oh, he's sick.

He's in the shop. No, you cannot do that. No, he's in the hospital. What about let's say you're a man or a woman and you're getting your hair done because your hair is really ugly and your fingernails.

So, oh, where's your wife? Where is she? Oh, she's in the shop. No, you cannot say that. Even though they're fixing her hair or they're fixing her nails, we don't say it like that.

Okay? So remember that. Very, very important. Now, I want you to listen to the dialogue two more times. Did you walk here? Yeah. My car's in the shop.

What happened? I don't know. Something's wrong with the engine. Did you walk here? Yeah. My car's in the shop. What happened? I don't know. Something's wrong with the engine.

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