better understand the meaning of this expression

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And if a play wasn't successful, you could say that the actors had to find a place to hide, because they had failed. And generally, the third below, the lowest level, the furthest from the audience, it was a bit of a level of shame, well that was where they went to hide. So when they didn't manage to have a good play, they hid in the third below to be as far away from the audience as possible. And over time, the expression was amplified to say the thirty-sixth below, so it's even lower. So it shows that your state of embarrassment, your unease, it's even more important.

So today, when we talk about the thirty-sixth below or that someone is in the thirty-sixth below, it means that he is in a very difficult situation. He is sad, he is not in good spirits, he is in distress. A synonym, another expression, is "he is lower than earth". So it is the same idea, he is really low, so low compared to others that we do not see it and it goes up that he is in an extremely difficult situation.

Here are some examples to

Imagine someone who says: "She failed her exam for the third time. Since then, she's been down in the dumps." It's pretty clear here. A person has failed an exam three times, so she's very sad, she's not in good spirits, she's ashamed, she's in distress and we say that she's down in the dumps. So by saying "she's down in the dumps," well, we're expressing the fact that this person is very sad, very bad, she's down in the dumps.

Another example: "I thought he would be down and out after losing his job, but he seems to be in good spirits." So here, we had anticipated that our friend who had just lost his taiwan whatsapp number data job was going to be very sad, that he was going to be down and out, that he was going to be in an extremely difficult situation. Basically, we thought he would be down and out. And we are surprised to see that in the end, he is fine, he is in good spirits. So here, once again, being down and out, being sad, not being in good spirits, being in a difficult situation.

Last example: "Is everything okay at work? You look like you're in a bad way right now." So here, we're asking someone a question, asking them if they're okay, because we see that they look like they're in a bad way, so they seem sad, they seem to be down, they seem to be in distress. Basically, they seem to be in a bad way.

Very good. Now that this expression no longer holds any secrets for you, I suggest you work a little on your pronunciation and we are going to work on the sound "z", whatever its spellings. The sound "z" can be written with a "z", with an "s". Here we are not going to worry about the way we write it, we are going to focus on the sound. So I am going to give you a certain number of words or I am going to pronounce them and you repeat after me. This is important to succeed in pronouncing "thirty-sixth", "zième". So here we go.