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Hello and welcome to the English We Speak with me, Fei Fei.
And hello, I'm Neil.
Neil, was that a brand new bike I saw you arrive on today?
It was.
Thank you for noticing.
It's a racing bike with 21 gears and go faster stripes on it.
Nice.
But didn't you buy a new mountain bike last week?
I did, to go with the spare one I bought last month.
I love bikes.
Neil, if you don't mind me saying, you need to put the brakes on your spending.
You want me to slow down?
You think I'll go too fast?
Not exactly.
I'm talking about slowing down.
How much money you're spending?
The expression put the brakes on or to put a brake on something means to stop or slow down an activity.
So, Neil, would you like to hear some other people putting their brakes on something?