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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun phrase 66. The noun phrase today

  • is birthday suit. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.If someone is in one's

  • birthday suit he or she is naked. It's that simple.

  • This noun phrase, of course , alludes to the idea when you are born you are naked.

  • Yeah. Nobody is born with clothes on. You're not wearing clothes when you're

  • still in your in your mother's body in the abdomen you don't come out with

  • clothes on, you come out naked. So that's what we mean. It's kind of a humorous or

  • it's kind of a funny way to say somebody is naked. So that's what we say here it

  • is a humorous way of saying naked. We say somebody is in their birthday suit. Okay.

  • Yeah. So let's look at several examples here. Example number one. She went

  • swimming in the swimming pool in her birthday suit.

  • Yeah. That's it. Number two she was sunbathing in the backyard in her birthday suit.

  • Yeah well hopefully she has a very very high fence and hopefully no neighbors

  • have very high buildings that they can now look down on her. But that's what we

  • would say. We say you know in one's birthday suit meaning naked or completely

  • naked. Number three. Her neighbor walks around his apartment with no curtains

  • and the windows open in nothing but his birthday suit. Yeah. That's one of the

  • ways that you sometimes hear it . Somebody might say somebody is only in their

  • birthday suit or in nothing but their birthday suit too . That's sometimes the way

  • that you will hear it used. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you

  • for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun phrase 66. The noun phrase today

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