Prince Harry's Book: BBC News Review
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2023
- Prince Harry's autobiography, Spare, which reveals royal family secrets, has finally gone on sale.
The story:
Prince Harry's autobiography, Spare, has finally gone on sale.
In it, he writes about his struggles growing up as a member of the royal family.
Harry describes dealing with his mother's death, his anger with the media, and the treatment of his wife, Meghan.
The royal family have said they will not comment.
Key words and phrases:
from (the) horse's mouth
directly from the source
• If you don't believe me, talk to him and hear it straight from the horse's mouth.
• Janice is pregnant. I heard it directly from the horse's mouth.
flood
enter in large amounts
• My bedroom is flooded with sunlight every morning.
• Viewers flood TV channels with complaints when someone swears.
have (your) cake and eat it
try to gain two advantages from one thing
• I want to relax at home and go to the party. I guess I can’t have my cake and eat it!
• He said he wants better transport services, but he won't pay more tax. He can't have his cake and eat it.
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Harry forget to put all his Mother lover in the book
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Hi Sian and Neil. When it comes to 'have (your) cake and eat it', for the explanation I think it would be better to say 'try to gain two (opposite) advantages from one thing'
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Thank you very much for your support! I kindly request to introduce some vocabularies and some expressions with regard to book review. Best regards.
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I'm actually working on books and I was able to have one published. It's called "Amy and the Faith Scouts - The Diamond of Dandasterton." It's a novel and it took almost a year to write it. I'm so happy it's finished and published. I'm working on other books right now and the fact that you read so many books last year is an encouragement to me as a teenage author to keep on writing. Happy New Year!
Happy new year to you and good luck with the books!
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Love you Harry congradulations on you book !keep smiling ,!
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Withing a month I'll take my B1 sufiency test and I'm practicing my listening, these videos help me so much, it only takes me 10 min daily to watch and I love it when I understand everything, unfortunately in this video didn't understand much but I'll continue learning more vocabulary.
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@@MelsArchive I appreciate that, thank you
complaints were flooding in my yesterday's presentation
News about this book just flooded my social networks!
Great use of the phrase :)
Hello! Thank you a lot for your lesson. As usual it's great and undoubtedly useful. I have heard many times about the difficulties that Royal family members face, but I didn't expect that somebody writes a book about it. So that's why many people now are craving to purchase it, our curiosity is working right now
In french we say "have the butter and the money for the butter" ;)
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Thanks a lot for lesson 🙂 News about the royal family arouses interest in Poland too, although there are a lot of them and sometimes they evoke mixed impressions, including disbelief. Now, reading Harry's book, we can get first-hand information (this is an idiom used in Poland). Hope its Polish translation will be released later this year 😉
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I et a lot with an exclamation mark!!!
Finally, I am not a psychiatrist so I cannot make an evaluation as to Prince Harry's state of mind yet what I can say is In the past Prince Harry's served in Afghanistan, as a military soilder and he went through difficult times in his live For instance:;stress anxiety, Post trammatic stress disorder.
What a nice video! In Italian the "cake" idiom goes like "having a full barrel and a drunken wife" LOL!
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My house was flooded by my classmates as I invited some of them for my birthday's party last year, but since I told my best friend to have a get-together when someone else was there, this person shared to everyone that the news came from the horse`s mouth. In the end, I enjoyed that lively environment; however I would`ve preferred to be around the ones I rely on. I guess I can`t have my cake and eat it.
This episode got some technical problems with the audio, the same on BBC sounds😢
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Horse's mouth in México: First hand
I can't get over the fact that his ITV Interview he says that it's the press (even Bradbury looked bewildered) he blames for racism towards Meghan and on Anderson Cooper interview he says it was his family! The man is horrible!
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Am reading the book now and is very very exciting to read. No matter what you're feeling, please read the book first before judging him. Am so glad to learn more not just about him but about what goes on in the Palace of which we never knew. He tell it all
I hope a bunch of nice stuff and happiness flood into your life, Guys.since your fantastic job, absorb everyone to learn English with this nice and awesome accent.
Is there a problem with Sian's voice? Echo?
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We leant 3 idioms today.
I like reading in English.. It has always been a great pleasure and a perfect way to improve my English vocabulary but I'd rather be reading O.Wilde than a book called "Spare". If you fancy Princes and Princesses you should instead go to Disneyland... There are a lot of them around. 🌟🌟🌟 Great Video as usual and Greetings from Spain
Vocabulary from the Video BBC news review "Prince Harry's book":
- Autobiography (n) - a book about a person's life written by that person. Autographical (adj). Exp: Harry writes an autobiography named "Spare" about his life. The book has finally gone on sale.
- Struggle (v) - make great efforts or try hard. Exp: He struggles with his homework. It means he tries hard to do his homework. Struggle (n) an act of struggling or a fight. Exp: Harry writes about his struggles growing up as a member of The Royal family.
- Memoir (n) - syn autobiography, a book or other piece of writing based on the writer's personal knowledge of famous people or places or events.
- Queue (n) - a line of people waiting for something or to do something. Exp: People are waiting in a queue to purchase Harry's book.
1) From the horse's mouth (idiom) - directly or straight from the original source or a well-informed and reliable source. Exp: He heard the story straight from the horse's mouth. It is not gossip.
2) Flood (n) - a lot of water. Flood (v) - enter in large amounts. related to people, sunlight, or complaints. Exp: People flood bookshops to purchase Harry's books. It means there are a lot of people entering the bookshops to buy the book. The room is flooded with sunlight every morning. The complaints flood in. It means they receive a lot of complaints.
3) Have your cake and eat it (too) (idiom) - want to have 2 advantages from one thing at the same time. It is not possible. You can't have your cake and eat it. It is used to describe for example You want to save money but also want to buy a car. So it is not possible.
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That's very detailed - well done :)
Have ( your) cake and eat it = vouloir le beure et l'argent du beure in French !Thanks for that one !
One day they said our country had been under the coup, I was stunned and perplexed unless hearing it from the horse's mouth on radio.
I remember those days when lots of people flooding into supermarkets and grocery stores during Covic.
I feel like playing games but also watching the new released movie though I know I can't have my cake and eat it!!!
In spanish "have their cake and eaten" is "matar dos pájaros de un tiro" lol
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Our pleasure! Her name is Sian :)
this "flood" is used same as Japanese :3 it's very understandable for me.
If it's true that William bashed him....man, dude is gonna be a great king
I need to go to the school and I want to watch movies as well.I don"t think so I can't have cake and eat it.
- Mathew will get married by november. I heard It from de hourse`s mouth
- The shopping is flooded of people
- I want a calm hospital shifts this morning. But I cant have the cake and eat It.
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Where is she? I dont understand her pronuntiation
Can we also say people flocked into bookshops?
Yes, we can also use 'flock' here :)
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I don't understand the prince attitude.
I know one thing about my world ,
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Prince Harry family and children verygood and wonderful.
What does " todger" mean? 🤔
it is amaizing for your lesson. I learn a new thing. flood, horse's mouth and cake and eat it , All are
idioms. All theses are very useded, althoug I havent read the book. It is great shape for you are studing englis. thk you.
You are welcome. Keep going with your English!
I had not read about Prince Harry's book prior to what I had said been told. However, if these aligations
Don't be a Harry or Meghan in life. No matter instant praise or profit, there are no short cuts to emotional discipline and goodwill needed for authentic self respect.
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'From the horse's mouth' could mean 'from a source of fact rather than account' and come from a time when the modern day car salesperson was selling people horses and the horse's teeth was like the car milometer. A horse trader might tell you a horse is five years old, but an expert could tell you the horse is ten years old and that was 'from the horses mouth' likewise, any statement proved by fact is 'from the horse's mouth. Another explanation might be 'first news of an event' as important news used to be taken place to place on horseback - just like 'winning by a nose' the horse was the first to arrive with the important news, so very new news is 'from the horse's mouth'. Another explanation might be 'what actually happened opposed to account' as all events of any importance were with horses and the horse would be seen as an impartial reliable witness (especially in battle) so 'from the horse's mouth' could have derived from 'the horses would tell a truthful story' and 'from the horse's mouth' allude to 'truth' not 'tale'. The BBC is probably echoing modern usage of the idiom, but it's very unlikely people in past centuries would have likened others to animals in polite conversation.
Even free I don't interest to read the book
We would say "I'm not interested in reading..." :)
Can somebody explain the meaning of spare? Spare is an extra thing right?
Yes, is something is 'spare' it's not being used at the moment. In a car you might have a spare tire, in case something happens to one of the others.
So in the sentence "Harry's memoir Spare" that mean additional memory of Harry. Do I understand correctly?. I look up in dictionary and there are so many meaning
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Imagine, you find out your whole family cosplays.
He needs money.
Harry is a genius. He can write without read.
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His master wrote it on behafe of him.
He write lies
haha,i think his book intresting😊
Harry is not a man to be taken seriously. His comments about his family are spiteful, vindictive and hurtful but people don’t change overnight and rest assured they’ve seen this side of Harry before. This unnecessary drama will pass, it always does. While Harry rolls a spliff and continues to turn the spotlight on himself, the true Royals will go about their duties in a dignified, calm manner and continue to shine the spotlight on deserving causes.
No culturally classy man will admit to reading a book in which the author without consent describes intimate relationships, including sex with other people. Especially since these people can be easily identified. It is a form of rape and violence. It's funny that in the context of the book, everyone only talks about Harry and Meghan's privacy - that they once wanted privacy and ran away from the media and today they describe everything. It's hypocritical of course, but that's their business, they agreed to it. More sad, however, is that no-one notices what kind of violence they committed on the privacy of other people in this book. This lady from the first time was identified as their polo teacher. Other women are mentioned there as well. Did they agree to let the whole world read about their relationship? Do Harry and Meghan so supposedly understand what disrespect for privacy and leaking private information to the media is and what it does to mental health when it is not wanted, do they not notice what hell they may have inflicted on these people? This is a scandal, they should never be at any human rights, feminism or mental health gala ever again(sorry for my english)
I just don't understand why there is a phrase " Prince Harry book leaks", what's the meaning of leaks in this case? At first, I thought it was peak, just meaning the record of sales.
Ah, great question! In this context, to 'leak' means to 'make secret or private information known'. So, there was lots of secret or private information in Prince Harry's book that was going to become public when the book was available to buy, but some people leaked the information early. We use the verb 'leak' with things like security, or classified or personal information. Hope that helps!
@@bbclearningenglish It's helpful. Thank you very much
Can't have the cake and eat it: the same in french with butter "vous ne pouvez pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre " literally meaning can't have the butter and the money from the butter "
Interesting! Thanks for sharing that :)
In Italian it's about wine: you can't have a full cask and a drunk wife
🌿 Ladia got the highest score in the competition. I knew from the horse's mouth.
🌿 My house was flooded with water because the washing machine went on blind.
🌿 You can't be rich without hard work. You can't have your cake and eat it.
The book should have rename ...FLAT ...NOT a Spare....Royal family really flat him out hah hah ...I see the diff between British and American. Remember that saying...Money cant buy class !
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I am tired of Harry.is there no end to the things he's done
Finally, he is not if these things which Prince Harry has published are true he is not just damaged the Royal family but damage himself because he also comes from Royal blood and is close related to the Royal family.
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