In this scene from the TV series Big Bang Theory Sheldon meets his new boss, Dr. Eric Gablehouser, who fires him instantly.
Transcript:
Leonard (to Sheldon): Here comes our new boss, be polite.
Gablehouser: Hi fellas, Eric Gablehouser.
Howard: Howard Wolowitz.
Gablehouser: Howard, nice to meet you. And you are?
Sheldon: An actual real scientist. (To Leonard) How was that?
Scene: The stairwell of the apartment building. Sheldon is carrying a box of his things.
Sheldon: I can’t believe he fired me.
Leonard: Well, you did call him a glorified high-school science teacher whose last successful experiment was lighting his own farts.
Sheldon: In my defense, I prefaced that by saying “with all due respect.”
Vocabulary:
fella (informal) = a man
glorify = to praise and honor a person
fart = If someone farts, air is forced out of their body through their anus.
to preface = If you preface your words with something else, you say this other thing first.
with all due respect = used to express polite disagreement in a formal situation
(definitions taken from the Cambridge and Collins Dictionary)
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