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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adjective Phrase (6).

  • The adjective phrase today is flat-chested.

  • Okay.

  • Let's take a look at the note.

  • If someone describes a woman as being flat-chested, it means that she has very small breasts.

  • Of course.

  • So, all right.

  • Of course we could look, even though it seems pretty obvious.

  • We could look , we could take the word apart.

  • Flat , of course means level or no lumps or slope.

  • When we say chested, chested , means having a specific kind of chest.

  • Like for example we could say bare-chested.

  • like if someone had no shirt on.

  • even if a man was topless at a beach.

  • You could say he was bare chested.

  • Or broad-chested, meaning the chest is very wide.

  • You know , wide-chested, broad-chested.

  • So of course, you can describe flat-chested in the same way.

  • Okay.

  • Let's take a look at a couple of examples here.

  • Jenny is worried that if she become a body-builder, she may become flat-chested.

  • Yeah.

  • Sometimes you see this with bodybuilders, especially if they start taking male hormones.

  • Their muscles become so big that their chest almost begins to disappear and you can't see

  • that they are an obvious a woman's chest.

  • So, sometimes you see this appear.

  • So you might hear a woman say this if she really went very far.

  • If she only did a little weight-lifting.

  • No . This would not happen.

  • But if you became a true bodybuilder, and especially if you started taking testosterone

  • or male hormones that could happen.

  • All right.

  • Let's look at number two.

  • Some flat-chested women prefer to wear padded bras.

  • Yeah.

  • You know, some extra material in the bra, you know to give it a bigger appearance.

  • Or falsies.

  • You don't hear about it much anymore I think.

  • Probably people might spring for an operation.

  • and actually get a breast enhancement instead.

  • But you used to hear about falsies a lot.

  • It was just an extra padded material you could just put , a woman could just tuck in there

  • to make her breast appear bigger if she wanted to.

  • So , let's look at it again.

  • Some flat-chested women prefer to wear padded bras or falsies in order to make their breasts appear

  • larger.

  • Okay.

  • Anyway.

  • I hope you got it.

  • I hope it's clear.

  • Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

  • Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adjective Phrase (6).

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