[00:00.41]Hi, I'm Neil and this is Helen.
[00:02.72]Hello.
[00:04.18]What's wrong Helen? You're looking rather sheepish.
[00:07.70]Sheepish? Like a sheep? I know my jumper is quite woolly.
[00:18.72]No, I don't mean you look like a sheep. I mean you look sheepish, which is quite different.
[00:24.13]Of course, looking like a sheep and looking sheepish are two totally different things, obviously.
[00:30.96]Yes. If I say you look like a sheep, it means, well, you look like a sheep.
[00:39.48]But if I say you look sheepish, it means you look embarrassed or ashamed about something.
[00:45.96]To look sheepish means you look embarrassed or ashamed, like you've done something wrong or silly?
[00:53.80]Yes.
[00:54.78]Ah, yes.
[00:56.37]Listen to some examples.
[00:58.16]Tom walked into the room looking sheepish.
[01:01.50]Emily grinned sheepishly as she closed the door behind her.
[01:04.59]James gave her a sheepish look.
[01:07.46]So, come on Helen, why are you looking sheepish today?
[01:11.89]Ah, well.
[01:13.92]Yes?
[01:15.71]Well, you know that book you lent me?
[01:19.51]You mean my favourite book of all time, the original edition of The Private lives of the Greatest Cats in History?
[01:28.45]Yes.
[01:30.26]OK Helen, now you're looking very sheepish indeed, so you'd better hurry up and tell me what happened to it.
[01:37.89]I dropped it.
[01:40.38]You dropped it? Well I hope it's not damaged, otherwise I'll have to...
[01:46.54]In the river.
[01:48.35]In the river. You dropped it in the river.
[01:51.42]It was carried away, I couldn't get it out.
[01:54.50]Oh no.
[01:56.30]I'm so sorry. That's why I am looking sheepish.
[02:00.73]You should be looking even more sheepish than that. In fact, I expect you to look sheepish for several days.
[02:07.26]It was the best book in the world! "Sheepish" doesn't do it justice...