water down. Okay. We have three meanings and we have three examples. So

the first meaning is to dilute a liquid usually by adding water. Yeah. So you

really you can water down anything, but we especially use it for alcohol. So

let's look at a example number one here. You should water down that alcoholic

drink for her. She cannot handle it, if it is too strong. So people often can water

down alcohol. If the alcohol is too strong for them to make it like less

strong. Or yeah basically. But you could water down anything by adding some other

liquid to it. So we often say to water down. All right. Let's look at number two

here. To weaken or make something less effective or not as strong. Okay good. So

let's look at again the second example. By the time that bill passed through

Congress it got so watered down that it didn't do

half of what he was supposed to do. So maybe whoever wrote it it started off as

very strong bill but remember you know in Congress the politicians they have to

try to get the other side to agree to it so they get enough people to sign it.

Sometimes they won't sign it unless you know , they may they compromise some and

they lower it so then maybe they're making the bill a lot less strong or a

lot less effective because they have to try to compromise with the opposing

party. So in that sense we often say that the bill got watered down or somebody

speech could, could have gotten watered down, if it was very strong. But maybe

somebody didn't like some of the things in it so they might water it down. So in

this way, we say that something could get watered down. It becomes less strong or

possibly less effective. All right. Let's look at the third one here. To water

something thoroughly like go to like rinse something or spray water over

something. You can water it down. Sometimes it could be because something

is too hot and you want to cool it down or sometimes it could be because you

want to rinse or wash something off. So let's look at the third example here.

Let's water down the driveway to get rid of some mud that got on it. So maybe this

is somebody's driveway you know , usually it's some sort of you know , concrete or

tar on it. But you know, maybe for somebody maybe a storm or something

swept some mud on it or somehow mud got on it. So you might water it down . to

rinse or wash the mud away, especially a lot of driveways sometimes are or

could or might be on a slight slope or slant. It might be easier to you know, to

water it down that way. Or like I said if something was too hot and you wanted to

cool it down you might spray water on it you might water it down in that sense. Or

if it was too dry, you needed to make it more moist. You might spray water on

it just to water it down in that sort of sense. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I

hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.