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In the eastern Kimberley region of
Western Australia, in the heart of
cattle country, one especially famed
fiery and fearsome creature rules the
rodeos. He is rightfully named
Terminator. From Halls Creek, Tim Lee
reports.

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This year, Halls Creek is welcoming
back its hometown hero. A
brindle-coloured, bad-tempered,
bucking Brahman cross bull, aptly
named 'Terminator'.

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When it comes time to perform, most
rodeo bulls turn it on. Terminator
never turns it off.

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He knows he's the king and he knows
that come to the rodeo arena, he can
rule the rodeo arena, you know, and
make cowboys hang on for their
money's worth.

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He just like seeing them in the dust.

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That's right, yeah.

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He's very strong, hard and fast.

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And he usually just comes straight
out of the chute and usually only
gets about two bucks in before the
person comes off him, and he
certainly won't leave around with
those sheets, he'll just twist and
then his rearend will just come right
up and he'll just force him off.

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G'day, guys and welcome to Aussie
English. My objective here is to
teach you guys the English spoken
Down Under. So, whether you want to
speak like a fair dinkum Aussie or
you just want to understand what the
flippin' hell we're on about when
we're having a yarn, you've come to
the right place. So, sit back, grab a
cuppa and enjoy Aussie English.

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G'day, guys! How's it going? Welcome
to this episode of Aussie English.

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Man, guys, I am a reading machine at
the moment. I've been reading books
like crazy and I have just punished,
I have just finished, I have just
worked my way through 'Tim Flannerys
- The Explorers', all about
Australian explorers and it was a
great read. It was really fascinating
because he sort of takes you on a
tour through all the different
explorers, who went through different
parts of Australia back in these
1700-1800s, and even the early 1900s.

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Anyway, I'm going to review that and
chuck of video up on YouTube when I
can, but what an amazing read. There
were lots and lots of stories about
the interaction between the early
colonists, as well as the European
Australians later on with Indigenous
people in Australia, a lot of them
actually a lot better than I was
expecting, you know? I was expecting
European Australians to pretty much
always have horrible encounters with
these people, but that wasn't the
case.

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Anyway, I'll talk about that later. I
hope you guys are having an amazing
week, I hope you are enjoying
yourselves wherever you are in the
world.

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The intro scene. We should talk about
that. The intro scene there at the
start of this episode included some
excerpts from a really cool ABC News
story about a fearsome bull called
'The Terminator'.

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That bull riders at rodeos, you know,
have to risk their life and limb to
ride in the hopes of being the
longest to stay astride him. So,
there'll be a link in the transcript
guys to see that entire video,
otherwise, go to ABC News Australia
on YouTube. It's a great resource if
you are trying to learn about
Australian English, culture, history,
as well as current affairs. Check it
out.

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Alright, so let's get into this
episode. So, the expression is 'throw
caution to the wind' and this was
suggested by Erandaka in the Aussie
English Academy, he suggested this,
we all voted on it and yeah, he won.
Good job!

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So, I was thinking, what can I talk
about related to 'throw caution to
the wind' in today's episode, in
today's Aussie English fact? Which
will be another episode after this
one that you can listen to because,
again, I've written an essay, I'm
going to discuss it using a different
episode because it's going to be
quite long, but I thought I would
talk about the history of rodeo in
Australia.

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And, so when I was looking for a
joke, I was looking for a rodeo joke
ok? So, rodeo, you know, people who
ride horses and bulls at these kind
of events in places like America,
Canada as well as Australia, hence
the video at the start of this
episode with The Terminator. So, I
found a rodeo joke and here's the
joke, ok? It's a good one, I liked
it, I liked it.

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How do you kill a rodeo clown? How do
you kill a rodeo clown? Go for the
juggler. Go for the juggler, so did
you get it, guys?

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A rodeo clown is the guy who is
dressed in crazy gear and is meant to
distract the bull or the horse, so
that the cowboy who is on the horse
can escape if he falls off, right?
So, that's the clown. A juggler is
usually a clown at a circus who
throws balls in the air, right? And
keeps them in the air, so that's
'juggling'.

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But the pun here is with the words
juggler and jugular, as in the
jugular vein, right? The vein that is
taking the blood from your brain back
to your heart, I believe, in your
throat, right? That is your jugular,
and because it sounds similar to
juggler, the person who throws balls
in the air, that's the joke here, ok?

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So, how do you kill a rodeo clown? Go
for the juggler, because the phrase
you will often here is go for the
jugular, right? As in, you know, show
no mercy, go for the kill, go for the
jugular, right? Go for the throat, go
for the jugular, anyway. I hope you
like that joke.

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So, the expression, guys, 'throw
caution to the wind'. Have you heard
this one before? 'To throw caution to
the wind'. You might also hear it as
'to throw caution to the winds',
plural, winds or 'throw all caution
to the wind' and the other thing I
should mention too is that the verb
'throw' is quite often substituted
for other synonyms, so you might hear
'to toss caution to the wind', 'to
chuck caution to the wind', 'to turf
caution to the wind' or even 'to pith
caution to the wind', you can use any
of these sorts as synonyms, right?
For 'throw caution to the wind'.

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So, let's go through and define the
words in this expression. I'm sure
you guys know what 'throw' means,
right? If you throw something, you
propel that thing with force through
the air using your arm, right? Using
movement of your arm and hand, you
might throw a ball or you know if
you're an Indigenous Australian you
may throw a boomerang, right? to
throw something.

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If you throw something to something,
it's the idea that you have propelled
that thing through the air, so that
it reaches something else, right? So,
if I told you guys 'throw me a ball',
it's that I want you to throw the
ball to me, so that I can catch the
ball and have the ball, right? Throw
it to me.

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'Caution'. Now, caution is care taken
to avoid danger or mistakes, right?
That is caution the noun and maybe
you're really cautious as a person,
that's the adjective, right? I'm a
very cautious person, who takes a lot
of care to avoid danger and mistakes.
I use a lot of caution, right?

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And 'wind', I'm sure you guys know
what wind is it, is there a
perceptible natural movement of air,
right? Especially in the form of a
current of air blowing from a
particular direction. If you go
outside, the wind could be blowing
from the North. So, there you go,
those are the words in the expression
'to throw caution to the wind'.

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I wonder if you can glean, if you can
glimpse the meaning there in those
definitions, though, of the actual
expression 'to throw caution to the
wind', 'to throw caution to the
wind'. If you throw caution to the
wind, it is to act in a completely
reckless manner, right? To do
something without worrying about it,
without worrying about the risk or
the negative results that come from
doing that thing, right? So it's
often to take a risk and it has this
element of carelessness, so you've
thrown caution, like the caution you
should have, you've thrown it away to
the wind, so that it blows away,
right? That's the idea I have in my
head, 'to throw caution to the wind',
so that it blows away.

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Alright, so as usual, guys, let's go
through some examples of how I would
use this expression 'to throw caution
to the wind'.

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So example number one: imagine you go
to a restaurant that you've never
been to before. You're out with your
mates and they wanted to try
something a bit different, you know,
they wanted to try something new, so
maybe it's a seafood restaurant and
they have heaps of shellfish like
mussels, like oysters, prawns and
lobsters as well as the usual fish.
So, you're not a massive fan of
shellfish. In fact, the last time
that you had shellfish you ended up
getting food poisoning and being sick
for a week, spewing your guts up. So,
but this time they tell you that this
place is so good it's meant to be
absolutely incredible. It's all the
rage and has received a lot of great
reviews that you need to try it and
you specifically need to try their
shellfish menu.

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So, if you decide to act in a bit of
a reckless manner and throw caution
to the wind, you might order 12
oysters and give them a go, even
though last time you got sick. So,
you do something without worrying
about the consequences, you do
something even though you might get
sick again, you turf all caution to
the wind and order some shellfish.

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Example number two: so this is a real
example. When I was a kid I used to
love skateboarding, so I would go out
in the streets and I would
skateboard, you know, on one of those
wooden boards where the ends kind of
curl up and there's wheels
underneath. So, those are wheels on
trucks on a wooden deck, I think it's
called, it's been a long time since
I've skated. So, I was out in the
streets skating all the time, I got
pretty good at the local skate parks,
where I would go and hang out with my
mates and I could do tricks like
ollies or kick flips or even varial
flips. So, these are some of these
more difficult tricks when
skateboarding.

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I used to love cruising around the
streets with friends until the
streetlights would come on and that
would be when my parents would say
I'd have to come home. So, instead
of, you know, giving me a specific
time, they'd just say come home when
the streetlights come on because it's
getting dark, right? And then I'd
come home and have dinner. So, I was
a good skateboarder back in the day
when I was a kid, but now I'm an
adult and I haven't touched a
skateboard in years.

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So, if suddenly the opportunity
arises, maybe I'm at a party with a
young cousin, right? With a
skateboard and he comes up to me and
asks 'Pete, show us what you can do!
Show us your stuff, can you still
skateboard?'. If I decide against my
better judgment to give it a burl, to
give it a whirl, to give it a try,
you know, maybe I try and do a kick
flip on the road, I'm throwing
caution to the wind because it's been
years since I've done it and I'm
likely to hurt myself, I'm likely to
fall, right? You know, could break
something. So, I'm not considering
the potential consequences, I'm
chucking all caution to the wind and
doing something reckless.

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And the last example here is imagine
you're a backpacker and you've come
to Australia and you're going on a
road trip in the outback and somehow
you find yourself on a cattle station
in the middle of the bush working as
a jackaroo or jillaroo for, you know,
six months or so before you have to
go home after your work holiday visa.
So, there's a big rodeo event coming
up and you're planning to go to it
with all your workmates and check out
the cowboys and cowgirls competing in
events like steer wrestling, where
they have to wrestle a young cow to
the ground or maybe breakaway roping,
where they have to chase a bull on a
horse, use a lasso to catch it or
even bareback riding on a bull or a
horse, right? Where the cowboy sits
atop a bull or horse and has to hold
on while the angry animal tries to
fling him off by bucking, right?

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So, when you arrive one of your mates
puts his hand up for you and you get
invited to take part in one of these
events. So, you're horrified when you
learn that it's bull riding, but
decide 'you know what? I'm not going
to pike out, I'll  chuck all caution
to the wind and I'll take up the
challenge and hopefully I'll make it
out alive, I'll make it out without a
scratch', so you do something
reckless, you do something without
taking into account the dangers that
could happen, you throw all caution
to the wind.

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So, there you go, guys. That's the
expression 'to throw caution to the
wind'. Remember, you may hear 'turf
caution to the wind', 'chuck caution
to the wind' or 'throw all caution to
the wind' and remember it means to
act in a completely reckless manner,
to do something without worrying
about the risk or the negative
results that may occur as a result of
that action.

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So, as usual guys let's go through a
little listen and repeat exercise.
This is your chance to practice your
pronunciation, so listen and repeat
after me, obviously, if you're
working on your Aussie accent really
pay attention to things like the
vowel sounds and the way that words
are linking and, you know, that the R
might disappear from time to time at
the ends of words. So, listen and
repeat after me, guys, let's go.

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Throw.

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Throw all.

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Throw all caution.

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Throw all caution to.

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Throw all caution to the.

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Throw all caution to the wind.

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Throw all caution to the wind.

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Throw all caution to the wind.

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Throw all caution to the wind.

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Throw all caution to the wind.

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Good work and you might notice there
that I'm linking 'throw' and 'all'
with a W sound, 'throw all', and also
that because there's a C sound after
the Ls in the word 'all', 'all
caution', the Ls in 'all' actually
turn into a dark L, so you won't hear
it like an L sound it's more of a
reverse W, 'throw all caution to the
wind', right?

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'Throw all caution to the wind', so
pay attention to that. It happens a
lot in English. Let's keep going.

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So, in this one in this exercise here
I'm going to say, I'm going to say,
I'm gonna say, 'gonna' more like I
would say it when I speak naturally,
ok? So we're going to conjugate the
sentence 'I am going to chuck caution
to the wind',  'you are going to
chuck caution to the wind', but
you'll notice that I contract the
verb to be and the present participle
'going', ok? So, listen and repeat
after me.

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I'm goint to chuck caution to the
wind.

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You're going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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He's going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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She's going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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We're going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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They're going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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It's going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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Good job, guys. There's a few cool
things I want to mention there before
we finish up. You might notice out of
all of the 'to be' and 'going to'
contractions that there is one that
is different from the rest, right? So
you're going to have 'you're gonna',
'he's gonna', 'she's gonna', we're
gonna' and 'it's gonna' and the very
first one 'I'm gonna'.

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I don't know why we do that. We just
contracted even further, so you can
say 'I'm gonna', 'I'm gonna',  but
quite often you're going to hear 'I'm
gonna'.

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'I'm gonna to do this, I'm gonna to
do that, I'm gonna chuck caution to
the wind'."I'm gonna". "I'm gonna".

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The other thing here that I want to
mention is that you might notice that
between the words 'chuck' and
'caution' there aren't two /k/ many
sounds, but instead there is just one
and the one at the end of the word
'chuck' is delayed, right? As it
links to the next word, so you'll
hear 'chuck_caution',
'chuck_caution'.

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And that's because the the mouth goes
into the shape to make that sound the
K sound, except it pauses for a brief
second, ok? There's a delay there
because there's two of these
consonants next to one another.

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So, you'll hear 'I'm going to chuck
caution to the wind', instead of 'I'm
going to chuck caution to the wind',
right? Chuck_caution, Chuck_caution.

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This happens when consonants double
up in words like that between words,
so it indicates that there are two
words because of that delay and that
these consonants are separating the
two words, instead of being a single
word. Because if you said 'I'm going
to chuck caution to the wind', I'd
think what to caution? What is to
caution? So, we need that 'chuck
caution' that delay, ok?

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Anyway, let's go through it one more
time and then we'll finish up.

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I'm going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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You're going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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He's going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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She's going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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We're going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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They're goignto chuck caution to the
wind.

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It's going to chuck caution to the
wind.

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Good work, guys. Good work. I hope
you enjoyed this episode. Remember to
keep an eye out for the second
episode for today, which is going to
go through the history of rodeo in
Australia. It'll be a good episode
with a lot of really cool vocab and
information in there about Australian
culture and history, and don't forget
too, if you want all of the bonus
content for today's expression
episode in a course, make sure that
you sign up for the Aussie English
Academy, ok?

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So, go to www.AussieEnglish.com.au
click Join Academy and I'll see you
in there guys. Anyway, it's been a
pleasure. Hope you have a great week
and I'll see you soon, peace.

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