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Pack your English with idioms.
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And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com subscribe sometimes an idiom is the only thing that fits when you're trying to convey your point.
Today, learn three idioms that you can use to start cultural conversations and connect in English.
Treading water is an English idiom that means you are working at something but getting nowhere.
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Hey Aubrey, how you doing today?
Great.
I have a question for you Lindsay.
Okay.
When's the last time you were packed like sardines somewhere?
Oh my gosh.
I remember living in Tokyo.
I remember a couple of times when I made the mistake of getting on the train at 8am or 9am rush hour and I never did it again because I just couldn't believe it how packed I was and how they just pack you in.