Dating in the UK

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In today's episode we talk about dating in the UK! How best to find true love? What are some cheesy chat-up lines to attract/repel a partner? When will Jonathan pop the question? All this and more in the Chewsday Chats.
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Part One:

(Good/bad) chemistry (slang, noun): relates to feelings between people, especially friends and romantic interests
Can't hear myself think (phrase): you cannot give your attention to anything because there is so much noise
Stigma: a mark of shame or discredit

Mover and shaker (noun): a person who is active or influential in some field of endeavour
Vicariously (adverb): experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another
One-night stand (informal, noun): a sexual relationship lasting only one night
A fan of someone/something (idiom): To strongly like, appreciate, support, or be interested in someone or something.
Part Two:
Chat-up line 1: Do you know CPR? I hope so, because you took my breath away
Lock eyes (with someone) (idiom): used to say that someone is looking at someone or something and not looking at anything else
Chat-up line 2: Excuse me, is your name Google? Because you are everything I am looking for
Weirdo (informal, noun): a strange person
Badger (someone) (Verb): to harass or annoy persistently
Vexed (adjective): annoyed, frustrated, or worried
Chat-up line 3: Excuse me, you can go ahead and cancel that Uber, because I'm trying to pick you up.
Chat-up line 4: That looks heavy can I hold it for you... I mean your hand
Brace for (something) (verb): prepare (oneself) for something difficult or unpleasant
Clammy (adjective): unpleasantly damp and sticky or slimy to touch
Not dig (something) (idiom): to not understand, appreciate or like something
Chat-up line 5: So cute together! No, I'm not talking about our dogs...I'm talking about us.
Creep out (informal, phrasal verb): give someone an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease
Chat-up line 5: Wow you love dogs? I love dogs! I think we might be the paw-fect match!
Part three:
Idiom One: Out of (one's) league: In a situation in which one is mismatched with one or more others whose accomplishments, preparedness, or other characteristics are on a significantly higher or lower level than one's own.
"Your wife is way out of your league"
Idiom Two: To pop the question: propose marriage.

"Jonathon was dating his girlfriend for ten years, so I asked him, "when are you going to pop the question!?"