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Phrase: In stereo
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Listening to something in stereo means you are listening to the sound coming out of two speakers simultaneously.
This gives a much fuller sound.
If you are a child of the Showa era (1926 – 1989), you must have had the experience of listening to baseball or hockey games on a small transistor radio with one speaker.
The sound was tinny because there was only one speaker.
Now everything is in stereo, and transistor radios are only used in the Showa museum.
So far, we’ve looked at the literal meaning of in stereo.
It has other uses.
Sometimes two people try to explain something at the same time.
At that moment, we can say they are speaking in stereo.
A while ago, we looked at the phrase take the words out of your mouth.
If someone takes the words out of your mouth at the same time you are actually saying them, you are speaking in stereo.
In some situations, that can be cute.
At other times, it’s not very pleasant.
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Most of us were born in a single birth.
Some of us, though, are twins.
When the parents of twins dress them the same, it’s like seeing in stereo.
We know there are two of them, but it seems like there are two of one, if you get what I mean.
Then we have fashion.
It irks my wife to no end when someone else wears the same clothing as she does.
One time she was wearing the dress slash pants thingy, and we saw another woman wearing the same outfit.
I made the mistake of saying, ‘It’s like looking at you in stereo.’
Yes, I admit it, men are stupid sometimes.
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