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Joey goes to the salon and because he's a man and a manly man at that

He feels a little bit insecure about being there. So

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Alright, let's get to it

Hey, yeah, I'm here for my eyebrow equipment name Chandler Bing

But have a seat right over here mr. Bing and son you'll be right with you, okay. Thanks

I touch the stuff

Thanks

so do you uh

Do you get a lot of guys in here? Oh, absolutely

Oh

Good. Yeah, you're looking to meet somebody. All right, let's just do this

We'll get to the wax in a minute first, I want to tweeze some of the strays. Okay, and this may sting just

Please an extremely high threshold. Oh

My my my

just a a

Bit of shock is all but I'll be fine. You can go again. I'm okay

Hey, I need your help

Well, it seems serious

What seems to be the problem Ashley Judd?

Look, I'm getting new headshots taken. All right, so I want to get my eyebrows shaped. I'm sorry moment to make fun of that, please

Maybe but I'll still pound you into the ground

All right, look, it hurts so bad I could only let her do one eyebrow and now they don't match

It's like a baby caterpillar chasing its mama

Okay, look I have a magic marker I want you to fill in the skinny one so I don't look stupid for my pictures

Okay, first of all, this is green

All right, I will help you out but you have to promise me you will not tell anyone what I'm about to tell you

What what?

Okay, you know how most kids get their allowance from mowing the lawn or taking out the garbage

Well, I earn mine by plucking

The eyebrows of my father and his business partners

I

Guess you don't need my help, Victor, Victoria

I do I need your help. But Chandler. I don't know if I can take any more pluck and it hurts so bad Oh

with my combination of Ice Cube's aloe vera and my gentle

self-loathing touch

And done oh my god, I

Didn't feel a thing. Hey, are you still looking for a job because you could tweeze circles around that sadistic bitch at the salon

Thank you want to see what it looks like yeah, yeah

They totally match

Yeah, I think it looks pretty good I was a little bit worried that I was

Uncovering a birthmark right about there, but it turned out to be a little piece of chocolate

Okay Chandler. Thank you so much. No problem. Listen, uh

That's a pretty girly hour. We just spent we should probably do some manly makeup for it. Yeah

Curl my eyelashes. Yeah!

I'm here for my eyebrow

Appointment eyebrows line of hair that grows over your eye

appointment an agreement to meet with someone at a particular time, especially in a professional sense example

I have an appointment with the dentist tomorrow morning. Okay, very good

Have a seat right over here. Mr. Bing and Sonya we'll be right with you

She'll be right with you. We can insert right into some phrases to say that something will happen immediately

She'll be right with you means that she will be with him in a few seconds the phrase I'll be right back

I mean someone will return in the brief moment

You can also express the same idea with right after as in I got a job right after I arrived in the city

You're looking to meet somebody

You're looking to meet somebody you're looking to to want or try to do something

Example we're looking to move out next month

This part was funny as Joey asks

If many men go to the salon because he's insecure about doing something feminine like waxing his eyebrows

However, the woman assumes because he is there in this lawn. He must be gay and believes

He is asking for a date. This only adds to Joey's insecurities

Get to the wax in a minute first. I want to tweeze some of the strays

Okay wax a substance used to remove hair

Wax is also a verb as people often wax different parts of their body to remove hair tweets to pluck for example to remove

Individual hairs with the tweezer Straight by a stray she means a stray hair which is an individual hair

That sticks out from the rest of the hair or is not in its proper place

Other common collocations are a stray bullet a bullet that was supposed to go somewhere else and a stray dog

A dog that has no home this may sting

Please an extremely high

To sting if something stings it causes a quick sharp pain like a bee sting

Threshold the point or level at which something starts to have an effect

Your pain threshold is the point at which pain is tolerable for you a person with a high pain threshold

Tolerates a lot of pain Joey was starting to say that he has an extremely high threshold for pain

As it turns out though. His threshold wasn't nearly as high as he thought just a a

bit of shock dissolve

Shock a strong and usually unpleasant feeling of surprise

The hair plucking came as a shock to Joey because he wasn't expecting it to hurt so much

You could say he was in shock or in a state of shock example

I'm still in shock the movie didn't get any Oscar Awards. Look I've getting new headshots taken

All right, so I'm going to get my eyebrows shaped

I'm getting new headshots taken a headshot is a picture of someone's face and for actors

They're the portrait used as a part of their resume to get work the structure in this verb phrase

Get or have plus something plus

Past participle verb is very common in English to talk about something someone did for us

for example

We say I got my haircut or I got my car fix which would be different from saying I cut my hair or I fixed

My car both of which cases would mean you yourself

Did that action when Joey says I'm getting my headshots taken you means someone will take a headshot of him

Maybe a sissy but I'll still pound you into the ground

Sissy this word is used in a negative way to referred someone with a cowardly attitude

But also speaking and acting like a girl or in other words being girly. I'll still pound you into the ground

Literally to hit something really hard pound is to repeatedly hit until it goes into the ground

Figuratively Joey's saying that he can be Chandler in a fight example

I pounded the nail with this hammer, but it didn't going to the wall. Alright, look it hurts so bad

I could only let her do one eyebrow and now

they don't match so

Bad used after certain verbs to mean very much

Common collocations are to want something so bad or to miss someone so bad

Whether the correct word to use in such a way is badly, but natives usually break this rule

It's like a baby caterpillar chasing its mama caterpillar a small worm like creature that changes into a butterfly

Chandler jokes about Joey's eyebrows looking like a small caterpillar next to its larger mother

Look I have a magic marker. I want you to fill in the skinny one so I don't look stupid for my picture skinny

Very thin example. You better eat more. He's a skinny boy

He's supposed to to do what is normal common or expected in a specific situation

For example when you're at the movies, you're supposed to turn off your cell phone example

She was supposed to meet me in 3:00, but she was 45 minutes late

You know how most kids get their allowance from mowing the lawn or taking out the garbage?

well iron, mine by plucking the eyebrows of my father and

his

Business partners allowance a small amount of money that is regularly given to children by the parents in exchange for chores or simple jobs

Example my father gave me an allowance of five dollars a week. Mow the lawn

The lawn is the grassy area in front of or behind

a house

We cut or mow it

with a lawn woman cluck to pull something with your fingers in order to remove it from where it grows out of we say to

plug a hair to pluck a feather from a bird to pluck the petals off of a flower or to pluck a fruit from a

tree

his business partners

Chandler does air quotes or

Quotes with his fingers air quotes draws attention to the fact that what you put quotes around is not really true

In the case of Chandler's father's business partners with air quotes

If you follow friends

you know that Chandler's dad was secretly a transvestite a man who dresses like woman and his business partners may refer to other

Transvestites from his show a transvestite might plug his eyebrows to appear more feminine

I guess you don't need my help, Victor, Victoria

Victor Victoria a famous musical comedy starring a cross-dressing man or a man who dresses like a woman

It hurts so bad can't take it anymore. Yeah like Joey in this scene you can't take something

It means you can't tolerate or withstand it example, I used to be okay with her negative attitude, but I can't take it anymore

So you just learned the expression can't take it. Can you think of any more?

examples with this expression

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Every single week. All right. Let's get back into the lesson Oh

with my combination of Ice Cube's aloe vera and my gentle

self-loathing touch

Self-loathing touch loathing comes from the verb to loathe which means to hate for example

I vote this city's climate his turn the South lobe describes a person who hates or strongly dislikes him or herself

Chandler might hate or loathe himself because he's very embarrassed about his a surprising talents, which many would consider womanly

I didn't feel a thing a thing is a colloquial and emphatic way to say nothing as in the example

I didn't learn a thing in that course. I didn't say a thing

Hey, are you still looking for a job because you could tweeze circles around that sadistic bitch?

It's a so we already learned what tweeze means but when we say to do something

Circles around somebody we're saying that you do it a lot better than the competition

For example if someone is a fast runner

They run circles around other runners or in this case saying Chandler can tweeze circles around that woman means that he's a lot better sadistic

enjoyment that someone gets from causing pain someone that was a little bit worried that I was

Uncovering a birthmark right about there birthmark a mark on the skin produced from the time before someone was born

I would do some manly oh you some manly I

Would do some manly that's a pretty girly hour

we just spent we should probably do some manly makeup for us girl a manly these words refer to activities or attitudes that are

characteristic of females or males

Respectively while polishing nails would be considered girly

Playing a contact sport like rugby is generally considered a manly activity make up for something to make a bad situation

Better by compensating or replacing something bad with something good

Example you had to work overtime to make up for being late. Komai left. Yeah

Curl, my eyelashes to curl referring to hair is the opposite of to straighten eyelashes our hairs attached the eyelid many women

Use an eyelash curler to make their eyes pop out more

Hey, yeah, I'm here for my eyebrow appointment name Chandler Bing

Okay, very good have a seat right over here mr. Bing and Sonya we'll be right with you, okay. Thanks I

Touch the stuff

Thanks

so do you uh

Do you get a lot of guys in here? Oh, absolutely

Oh

Good. Yeah, you're looking to meet somebody. All right, let's just do this

Well get to the wax in a minute first, I want to tweeze some of the strays okay, and this may sting

It please I have extremely high threshold

Ha oh my my my

just stay a

Bit of shock is all but I'll be fine. You can go again. I'm okay

Hey, I need your help

Well, it seems serious

What seems to be the problem Ashley Judd?

Look, I'm getting new headshots taken. All right, so I went to get my eyebrows shaped. I'm sorry moment to make fun of that, please

Maybe a sissy but I'll still pound you into the ground

All right, look, it hurts so bad I could only let her do one eyebrow and now they don't match

It's like a baby caterpillar chasing its mama

Okay, look I have a magic marker I want you to fill in the skinny one so I don't look stupid for my pictures

Okay, first of all, this is green

All right, I will help you out but you have to promise me you will not tell anyone what I'm about to tell you

What what?

Okay

You know how most kids get their allowance from mowing the lawn or taking out the garbage?

Well, I earn mine by plucking

the eyebrows of my father and his

Business partners. Oh

My god I

Guess you don't need my help, Victor, Victoria

I do I need your help. But Chandler. I don't know if I can take any more plucking. It hurts. So bad Oh

with my combination of Ice Cube's aloe vera and my gentle

self-loathing touch

And done oh my god, I

Didn't feel a thing. Hey, are you still looking for a job because you could tweeze circles around that sadistic bitch at the salon