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Hello, and welcome to the English We Speak.
I'm Fei Fei.
And I'm Neil.
Neil, I just want to say thanks for my present.
It was exactly what I needed.
Well, I know you love tea and I heard that you smashed your favourite teapot.
So what better present than a BBC Learning English teapot?
Exactly.
A teapot is the gift that keeps on giving.
What?
Keep on giving gifts?
I'm sorry, Fei Fei, I can only afford one gift for you this year.
I can't keep giving you gifts.
How rich do you think I am?
No, I said the gift that keeps on giving.
We use the expression the gift that keeps on giving to talk about a thing
or situation which has benefits that are repeated over a long period of time.
So in the case of the teapot, it's something really useful that I can keep on using.