Reader question:
"In this quote - 'The man took a position today to show me up on national television. Everyone could see that' - what does 'show me up' mean? Where do we learn phrases such like this?"
My comments:
In that quote (source unknown), "show me up" means "embarrass me."
To show someone up is a colloquialism meaning to humiliate them by making them look bad or foolish.
The tabloid newspaper is a great source for picking up such phrases. Count the Daily Mirror and the Sun (both from UK) in - they are not only good for gossip (whether there's anything good about gossip is another matter), but a good source for the English learner to refine their language. Yes, I do hold these tabloids in high regard - it's up to you to overlook the gossip.
Anyway, here's a Daily Mirror example on Paul Gascoigne alledgedly showing his girlfriend up.
If you knew all the background to a story, all the names in it and so forth, you'd have an easier time reading through the text. Otherwise, reading the news can be a hard time for the uninitiated.
Gascoigne, by the way, was one of the best soccer players of his generation in England back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Nicknamed Gazza, Gascoigne was English Young Player of the Year in 1988 and BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1990. Suffice it to say, in his hey day, Gazza was better known than Gaza Strip, the Arab territory occupied by Israel, a constant flare point in the Arab-Israeli dispute in those days.
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