This mini episode teaches you a useful English expression: “mixed bag.”
Episode 135 of the Everybody ESL podcast teaches you the useful English expression “mixed bag.” What does it mean, and how can you make it part of your English? Find out here. And send your questions about English and your suggestions for future episodes to EverybodyESL@gmail.com! (And let me know if you’d like to record the introduction to a future episode.)
The expression I want to teach you today is “mixed bag.” Mixed bag. That's mixed—m-i-x-e-d—bag—b-a-g. Mixed bag.
What is a mixed bag? A mixed bag is a thing or a situation that has good things about it and bad things about it. Imagine a bag that is filled with a mixture of different things. It’s filled with an assortment of different things. It’s filled with some things that are like this and some things that are like that. It has all different kinds of things in it.
Let me give you an example of something that we might describe as a mixed bag.
Let’s say you have just started a new job, and after your first week on the new job, your friend asks you, “Well? What do you think of your new job?” And you answer, “Well, it’s kind of a mixed bag. I like a lot of my coworkers. They seem very friendly and very good at their jobs, and I think I will learn a lot. But I don’t like my boss very much. My boss does not seem to know a lot and doesn’t seem very friendly.”
So, that situation is a mixed bag because it has some good things in it and some bad things in it. It is a mixture. It has some of this and some of that. It doesn’t have only one kind of thing.
And that’s the end of episode 135 of Everybody ESL. Remember, if you have any questions about English, or if you have comments or suggestions for me about the podcast, or if you would like to record an introduction that I can use at the beginning of future episodes (the same way Marcin recorded the introduction you heard at the beginning of this episode), send an email to EverybodyESL@gmail.com.
I’ll be back soon with another episode. And until then, keep going, keep practicing, and keep learning. Good-bye! I’ll see you soon.