2024-12-04
21 分钟In this episode, you’ll learn 20 essential idioms and expressions that are commonly used by native English speakers. Designed for intermediate to advanced learners, this lesson focuses on practical, everyday phrases that will help you improve your fluency, sound more natural, and boost your confidence in conversations.Whether you’re preparing for exams, improving your professional communication, or just looking to grow your vocabulary, these idioms are easy to understand and can be used in ma...
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In this advanced English lesson, we're looking at useful and common idioms.
Useful and common idioms.
We're looking at these in 30 minutes.
So for each of these I've got 20 in total.
I'm going to explain it to you and give you an example when you might use it.
Okay, let's go.
So, number one, hands down.
Oh, this team will win this match hands down.
They are much better than the other team.
Oh, he'll get the job hands down, meaning there's no real opposition.
He's the best qualified for the job.
He'll have no difficulty in winning this particular round of interviews and he'll certainly be selected for the job.
So hands down, number two, something will cost an arm and a leg.
Well, this is a commonly used idiom and it means when something is really expensive, yeah, of course you can buy it, but it's going to cost you an arm and a leg.
Of course you can live in the center of the city, but an apartment there is going to cost you an arm and a leg.