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Hello and welcome to Six Minute English, I'm Dan,
and joining me today is Neil Hynale.
Hi everyone.
Look at you!
Bless you.
Are you okay?
I think I'm coming down with something serious.
It's just a case of the sniffles.
The sniffles is an informal way of saying a cold or flu.
It comes from the sniffing sound people make when they have a runny nose.
Yeah.
And a runny nose is when liquid mucus keeps leaking from our nose,
usually when we're sick.
I'm afraid you'll just have to soldier on Neil.
To soldier on means to continue despite difficulty.
Oh, dying.
What's it about anyway?
It's about man flu.