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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 246. The idiom today is pass muster.
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Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If something passes muster it is good
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enough or acceptable. Yeah. But it's a very formal way of saying it. Let's continue.
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The origin of this idiom to pass muster derives from so derives from, comes from
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originally Latin. Meaning a showing or display. So somebody gave a showing or
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display. In English you know, especially in former times. In English,
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muster meant a military assembly. The you know, military gathered together that
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was an assembly. Including an inspection. So that maybe a lot of the soldiers were
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given an inspection. Therefore to pass muster meant to pass
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an inspection. All right. So now this is one of these phrases to pass muster ...
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it's one that I probably hear more often in the negative.
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I probably hear it more often where somebody says something didn't pass
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muster. So it didn't pass the inspection. So it wasn't acceptable. It wasn't good
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enough. So yeah, we hear it , it's not like it can't be used in the positive, it can.
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I give one example with it and positive. Two in the negative because I think I
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hear it more in the negative. than in the positive. Well let's look at the
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three examples here. Example number one. The amount of evidence to indict him
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doesn't pass muster. Yes. Indict him and you know, officially
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charge him, like with a crime. So if the evidence wasn't good enough , they can't
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do it. It won't work. It's not worth their time. So it doesn't pass muster. It's not
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acceptable. It's not good enough. Well let's look at number two. They didn't
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hire him because his fluency in that language didn't pass muster. Yeah. Maybe
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they tested him out. They probably told them to come in. Maybe they had somebody
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else that was fluent in the language talking to him that language and maybe
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he couldn't understand it all or handle it enough. So his ability .. the test when they
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were testing and checking his fluency in the language they wanted , it wasn't good
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enough. It didn't pass muster. Okay. Let's continue.
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The third one. Now this one is you know, is a positive one. His , his finances
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passed muster. So they're, they're good enough. They're acceptable. His finances
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passed muster they will probably grant him the loan. So maybe this is at a bank,
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he applied for a loan and his finances and you know, all his financial records
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they passed muster. They're good enough. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's
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clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.