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Daily English Pod
Daily English Pod is a space for learning English beyond grammar and textbooks.
During the week, you’ll learn practical vocabulary, expressions, idioms, and real-life English, the language people actually use in everyday conversations, emotions, and work.
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I'm not buying it
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I'm not buying it
we mean: I don’t believe this explanation. It doesn’t feel honest. The story doesn’t convince us.
Examples:
1- He promised change “starting immediately,” using the same words as last time. People remembered what happened before. This time, they weren’t buying it.
2- She said he’d start tomorrow, like every other time. He wasn’t buying it.
Hi everyone, and welcome to Daily English. Today’s expression is confident, common, and very useful in everyday English. It’s “I’m not buying it.”
One more time: “I’m not buying it.”
“I already finished my homework,” The child said, closing the laptop a little too fast.
Her mother looked at the screen, then at her She wasn’t buying it.
What do you think this expression means?
When we say “I’m not buying it,” we mean: I don’t believe this explanation.
It doesn’t feel honest. The story doesn’t convince us. We’re skeptical — calmly, not aggressively.
Let’s listen to some examples:
He promised change “starting immediately,” using the same words as last time. People remembered what happened before. This time, they weren’t buying it.
The company explained the delay as a “small issue,” but the same thing kept happening again and again. At some point, people stopped believing the explanation. They weren’t buying it anymore.
She said he’d start tomorrow, like every other time. He wasn’t buying it.
This expression is often used when something sounds okay on the surface, but doesn’t feel right underneath.
When was the last time you heard an explanation and quietly thought, “I’m not buying it”?
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