so that you understand the meaning of this expression.

[jrineakter]

As usual, we will take a few examples

The first example we're going to take is someone who is talking, who is chatting with a friend, and this person says: "Ah, my boyfriend is going to introduce me to his family this weekend, I'm afraid of feeling like I'm being thrown to the lions". So the girl who says that, who says "I'm afraid of feeling like I'm being thrown to the lions", that means she's afraid of being criticized by her boyfriend's family, she's afraid of being put in a difficult, delicate position, of being under pressure. We say that she's afraid of being or feeling like she's being thrown to the lions.

Another example, let's imagine a writer who receives an invitation to give an interview in a newspaper, but we know very well that the people who are going to give this interview, who are going to ask him the questions, are quite negative people. Someone comments by saying: "Hmm, this writer threw himself to the lions by accepting this vietnam whatsapp number data interview". So by saying that, we are saying that this writer has voluntarily exposed himself to strong criticism, has put himself in a difficult position, of his own accord. We say that this person has thrown himself to the lions because he has exposed himself to strong criticism, he has put himself in a difficult position, in a stressful situation.

And finally, last example, in the world of work, you have someone who, when leaving a meeting, says to a colleague: "It was really not nice to throw him to the lions during the meeting, it was his first day". So by saying that, the colleague indicates that a person strongly criticized a new person. So it was the first day of a person, of a new colleague, and rather than encouraging him, he was exposed to strong criticism, he was put in a difficult position, he was simply thrown to the lions. That is what this expression means.

What I suggest you do now to reinforce all this a little bit is to repeat after me. We have prepared a certain number of sentences and you are going to repeat them after me. We are going to mix up the conjugation, so you really focus on my intonation. As usual, I am going to repeat, I am going to pronounce a sentence, I am going to give you time to repeat after me. Here we go.