The Office - Cut It Out (C0152)

Ed:

Hey, Mary, can you cut that out?

Mary:

Cut what out I'm not doing anything.

Ed:

The tapping of your pen on your desk. It’s driving me crazy.

Mary:

Fine! By the way would you mind not slurping your coffee every time you have a cup!

Ed:

I don’t slurp my coffee. And plus, how can you hear it when you're shouting into your phone all the time?

Mary:

You 've got to be kidding me! You're complaining about me talking on the phone when you go out for a cigarette break ten times a day to shoot the breeze?

Ed:

Look, we have a lot of accumulated anger from working in these conditions, and it's probably okay to let off steam once in a while But, it's probably not a good idea to keep it up I’m willing to forgive and forget and if you are.

Mary:

Fine. Let’s call a truce. I’ll try to more considerate and to keep the noise down

Ed:

Yeah, I'll try to do the same. So, I was wondering you wanna go out to dinner Friday night?

Key Vocabulary

cut that out

tell sb to stop

You 've got to be kidding me

You must be making jokes with me

shoot the breeze

chat

accumulated

gathered

let off steam

to release excess energy, emotion etc

keep up

carry on

forgive and forget

stop feeling anger and decide to let it go

call a truce

stop fighting

considerate

thinking about the feelings of other people

slurp

eat or drink (something) noisily

Supplementary Vocabulary

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