3 Idioms: cold turkey, kick the habit, and jonesing

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  Welcome to the Aida's English Podcast.

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  My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host Sochal.

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  And today we're going to do an idioms episode.

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  And Sochal, why don't you share today's idioms with us?

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  idioms are to quit cold turkey, to kick the habit, and jonesing.

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  So let's start off with the first one, to quit cold turkey.

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  Jack, what does that mean?

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  If you quit something cold turkey, it means you just stop doing it immediately.

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  So like quitting smoking cold turkey means like, I smoke on Wednesday, but on Thursday, zero cigarettes, I'm done.

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  I go from like 20 to a day to zero.

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  Just nothing.

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  Yes.

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  Yeah.

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  Or like you go from drinking to not to never drinking again.

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  Right.

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  Lots of stuff.

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  So you use it in a lot of aspects.

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  And people, a lot of people have like two ways to quit,

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  which is either they quit cold turkey, or they're kind of a methodical.

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  They do like a quitting plan.

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