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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 257. The idiom today is to collect dust.

  • Okay. Let's take a look at the note. Yeah. If something collects dust, it remains

  • untouched and unused for a long period of time. Yeah. This phrase is usually used

  • in humor. We're kind of making a joke and the fact that we haven't touched

  • something for a long time. We just say you know, it just sits there and collects

  • dust. You know because of course that's what things do. If you never touch them

  • or move them. All right. So let's continue here. We can also use it as a noun phrase

  • by saying something is a dust collector. Okay. All right. Let's continue.

  • Of course the idiom refers to the fact that if something is just left to sit on

  • a shelf and stored someplace without being touched or moved it actually does

  • collect collect dust over time. Sometimes quite a bit of dust or a lot of dust. So

  • again we're just making a joke out of this. So but here's some examples of

  • exactly the way we will use it. All right. Let's look at number one here.

  • I haven't rode that bicycle for a long time. It is just collecting dust in the

  • garage. Yeah that's exactly the way we say it. Or number two. Well this is the

  • idea of using it as a noun phrase saying a dust collector. My bicycle is a

  • dust collector. Yeah. You could use it in that sense too. Just from the same idea

  • as the first one. Or number three. I never pick up and read those old books, they

  • are just collecting dust on the shelf. Okay. Or on that shelf. Okay and the last

  • one here. I still have an old VCR machine that just sits in the attic and collects

  • dust. Yeah. This is exactly the way we use it and like I say we try to actually

  • usually be a little funny or a little humorous when we do.

  • Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it I was clear. Thank you for your time.

  • Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 257. The idiom today is to collect dust.

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