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Could you explain about this sentence "got ourselves the coolest new phones", please.

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Rebecca

"Got ourselves" means that the speaker (and his friend) bought or obtained something for himself, and "coolest new phones" refers to new cellphones that the speaker considers to be cool. "Coolest" here is not actually a qualifier for how cool the phones are; it is common to add "-est" to the end of adjectives as a form of emphasis. Thus, we can understand "we got ourselves the coolest new phones" to mean "we bought cool new phones for ourselves."

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