AEE 2352: Struggling With English Idioms? No Pain No Gain!

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all ears English podcast, episode 2352, struggling with English idioms, no pain, no gain.
0:10.0	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English?
0:18.6	We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing
0:23.6	on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS-Wiz, and Lindsay
0:31.9	McMahon, the English adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado USA.
0:40.3	And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all earsenglish.com
0:47.3	forward slash subscribe.
0:52.3	In today's episode, a listener asks us about a common idiom to talk about overcoming obstacles
0:57.4	and suffering through something to find success in the end.
1:01.6	Learn how to talk about this topic with three idioms today.
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1:37.6	Hello, Lindsay. How are you today? Hey, Avery. I'm doing pretty well. How are you? I am great.
1:43.9	I am wondering, do you ever lift weights?
1:46.5	Actually, I do. I've been lifting weights a lot more in the last year or two years. Yeah, awesome. No pain, no gain, right?
1:53.6	For sure. And sometimes it is painful, right? Yeah, exactly. With pain comes gain. You could also say, right?
1:59.9	With pain, yeah. Are you a weightlifter, Aubrey? I am not. I know I should. I should do this. I know I need to build more muscle, but I'm really bad about it. I don't have weights at my home and I don't have a gym membership. So it makes it a little trickier. You do it at a gym? I do it at Orange Theory. So I do Orange Theory. It kind of hit training and half of that or a third
2:19.2	of that is weightlifting. I was really bad at it a couple of years too. And then I started reading that
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