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- Harvey tries to fire Mike on Mike's first day of work after losing a promotion for lying to a client, but Mike counters by threatening to expose that Harvey lied about Mike going to Harvard.
- Harvey blackmails Jessica to get his promotion back by threatening to approach every client he ever closed and join Rick Peterson if she does not comply.
- Jessica agrees to restore Harvey's promotion on the condition that Harvey handles pro bono cases himself without passing them off to someone else.
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In today's lesson, you're gonna learn some nice expressions, vocabulary, pronunciation, and legal English with the TV series Suits.
In the scenes we're watching today, Harvey tries to fire Mike on his first day at work after he was denied a promotion, but then Mike gives him an idea. But before we get started, make sure you hit that subscribe button and bell down below because every week we put out lessons like this to help you understand your favorite movies and TV series, without getting lost, without missing the jokes, and without subtitles.
So hit that subscribe button and bell down below in order not to miss a single new lesson. Mike Ross is an extremely clever young man who lends the job as a lawyer even though he's never been to law school.
Harvey Spector, a top lawyer at the firm, is so impressed with Mike's intelligence that he gives him the job. How can you know all that? I told you, I like to read, and once I read something, I understand it, and once I understand it, I never forget it.
However, after losing his promotion for having lied to a client, Harvey tries to fire Mike on his first day of work. Let's see what happens. Mike. Hey, who's ready for a great first day? I'm gonna have to let you go.
What? I just got reamed for lying to a client, and if they find out that I lied about you going to Harvard, they'll take away my license. You what? Not now, Donna. Look, I have to put my own interest above yours. It's nothing personal. You're fired.
Wait, so you're worried that if I stay, then they might find out that you lied about me and you'll lose your license. But if you fire me, then I could tell them that you lied about me, and you definitely lose your license.
Are you telling me that if I throw you under the bus, you're gonna drag me with you? You put your interests above mine, and I'm just putting mine back up next to yours. You're rehired. Who's ready for a great first day?
I'm gonna have to let you go. So in this context, to let someone go means to fire someone. Another nice word in this context of business and work is downsizing. Downsizing is when a company has to fire people or let people go because the company is cutting down on costs or reducing in size.
Check out this clip from The Office. As you know, there's going to be downsizing, and you have made my life so much easier in that I am going to have to let you go first.
What? Why? What? I just got reamed for lying to a client. When a person gets reamed, this person is reprimanded or criticized for their bad behavior. And that's exactly what Jessica, Harvey's boss, does to him earlier in this episode.
Other possible words here could be scald, you know, to scald someone or to lecture someone. In this case, you behave badly, you do something bad, and then somebody gives you a lecture or somebody scalds you.
Check out these examples. When you find out about something, you discover or learn the truth about it.
For example, she divorced him because she found out he had been going out with another woman. And if they find out that I lied about you going to Harvard, they'll take away my license. Here, we can see the first conditional being used.
We can use the first conditional when making a prediction about the future or making a threat. Now, the structure goes, if plus simple present, plus will.
For example, you can use the first conditional when making a prediction about the future or making a threat. Plus simple present, plus will. For example, if it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'll go to the beach.
That's a prediction. If you do that one more time, you won't play video games for a month. That's a threat. You can also use might or could instead of will. Check it out. Wait, so you're worried that if I stay, then they might find out that you lied about me and you'll lose your license.
In this case, might means 50% possibility. They might find out. Maybe they will find out. There's a 50-50 chance. But if you fire me, then I could tell them that you lied about me and you definitely lose your license.
Now, could here gives this idea of imaginary possibility. Look, if you fire me, then I could tell them that you lied about me. You see, that's a possibility that I'm imagining right now. Are you telling me that if I throw you under the bus, you're gonna drag me with you?
Also remember that you can use going to instead of will. Just like in this case, you're going to drag me with you. Check out these examples where the first conditional is being used. But if you don't love this, then we'll do it any other place, any other time, really.
Ross, you know what? If you tell me, I might do it. If you don't do it, I will. You know, just learning random words like many people do without studying the proper context in which those words are being used is not a good strategy.
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Check it out. Lied about me. So here we have the D for lied that connects with the A for about. So we hear Lied, Lied with a flap sound.
Lied. And then we say Lied about. The T for about is a stop T. About, about. So Lied about me. Did you lied about me?
Did you lied about me? Are you telling me that if I throw you under the bus, you're gonna drag me with you? Now this is a nice expression to throw someone under the bus.
When you throw someone under the bus, you'll cause this person to suffer in order to save herself or gain some sort of personal advantage. And that's exactly what Harvey is doing to Mike hearing the scene. By firing Mike, Harvey is throwing Mike under the bus.