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hello come in come in you're the first

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here

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actually you're the only one here

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but that's great listen it's great to

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see you

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i thought today um we could learn and

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practice

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some idioms to talk about people

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that's right as you know in ielts

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speaking it's really important to

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describe

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people and to know how to describe

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so this could be really useful for you

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let's do it

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so as you may well know my name is keith

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what's your name by the way

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right nice cool name

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well um oh by the way do you

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know that i run live lessons on youtube

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every tuesday and thursday right you

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knew

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yes that's right 10 o'clock in the

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morning

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spanish time every tuesday and thursday

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keep coming

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i think there's lots of interesting

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stuff to learn there

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and if you want more resources yeah go

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and check out my website

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keithspeakingacademy.com

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there will be lots of new stuff coming

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there soon

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so great listen let's start talking

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about idioms

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what is an idiom exactly

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idioms are fixed phrases

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whose meaning is different from the

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individual words

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and often you can't guess the meaning by

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looking

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at the individual words right idiomatic

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so for example if i were to say

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i think i've just put my foot in it

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put your foot in what you mean you stood

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in some dog poo or something

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no i just told sarah her ex-boyfriend

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is going to get married i thought she

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knew but she didn't

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and now she's so upset

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so when we say something that can

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accidentally upset

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or make somebody angry we can say

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to put your foot in it i put my foot in

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right or she put her foot in it

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right that's a simple idiom it's not

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about putting your foot

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anywhere that's not really the meaning

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there's a wider meaning

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to say something by accident that will

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upset

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somebody great

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now then do you know any idioms

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yeah great so you know we use idioms

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to get attention especially in

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journalism newspapers

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blogs and articles we often use it for

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humor

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we can make jokes with it or just to

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color to what we're trying to say in

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ielts speaking

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of course it is a part a key part of

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is being able to use idiomatic

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so it might be useful to know the

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different types of idioms that we can

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let's have a look at those

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so there are many different kinds of

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idioms right there are

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binomials and proverbs sayings

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there's lots of kinds and knowing what

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category

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an idiom comes from can sometimes help

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you to remember it and to use it

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so let's have a look first at the

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different types

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of idiom and then later we'll look in

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specifically about idioms for people

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does that sound good great

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hunky-dory so types of idioms let's look

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at similes

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do you know any examples of similes

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one of my favorite ones is um

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they are like two peas in a pod

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so similes are expressions comparing

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two things usually using

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like or as right so

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as i said my my two brothers

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i don't have two brothers right my

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brother and sister are like

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two peas in a pod which means they are

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very very similar right because they

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are similar to two peas which is the

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sitting in the pod which holds the

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or we can say um tom my friend

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he's very very clever he's as sharp as a

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very very sharp

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intelligent so these are similes

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what about metaphors metaphors are

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do you know any metaphors

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so metaphors are similar but we're not

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really comparing them to something

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we are saying they are something

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object and personifying it

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like making it like a person or making

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like the object right so for example

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tom is as sharp as a knife but harry

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harry at school right in my schoolmate

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two plus two was 22.

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now maybe creative but the teacher said

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he's not the sharpest tool in the shed

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shed means

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he is stupid not clever

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so here we're saying he is not like but

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he is a tool

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in the shed the shed is the place where

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you keep all the tools for gardening

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now let's look at binomials

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binomials are normally two words joined

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by a preposition

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and that's usually and right

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um things like fish and chips black and

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white the and becomes

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an black and white fish and chips

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okay do you know any binomials

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whoa lovely okay

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so binomials for people do you remember

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he's very he's as cool as a cucumber

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that's the simile remember but he's calm

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so we're quite different we're like

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chalk and cheese chalk is for writing on

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cheese delicious with a bit of red wine

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helpful person and she will always be

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come rain or shine another category is

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euphemisms

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and we use euphemisms um

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to avoid offending people or saying

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words we're not comfortable with

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you're in the workplace with some

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colleagues some of them you know

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and they say can you describe your boss

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and what you're thinking is well um

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short she's fat and she's old

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that's what you're thinking but you

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can't say that i mean

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that might offend some people um it's

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so you use a euphemism right instead of

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she's fat you'd say well you know she's

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she's getting on a bit right so

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she's old she's getting on a bit

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vertically challenged she's short

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with a smile so here our euphemisms

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are also idioms in order to say things

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you may not be comfortable with great

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so next sayings and proverbs

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things like nothing ventured nothing

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or a warning or advice right be careful

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you know to be good you need to do this

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so they're often not appropriate for

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however there is a trick you can use

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so if you've learned nothing ventured

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nothing gained

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which means if you don't take a risk

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you won't succeed right

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now you're not going to say to the

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examiner oh mr examiner

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i'm going to try very hard today because

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nothing ventured nothing gained

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it doesn't sound natural at all right

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but what you can say is my uncle

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who runs a restaurant right he believes

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nothing ventured nothing gained and so

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he set up his own business

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that's super simple and natural he

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nothing ventured nothing gained

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another saying right where there's a

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will there's a way

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something you can do it you can find a

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my uncle who runs a restaurant right he

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where there's a will there's a way so

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obstacles when he set up his business he

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so you can see just say he believes

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or if you want to spice it up a little

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he's the kind of person who believes

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my uncle right he's the kind of person

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nothing ventured nothing gained and he

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nice so it's a nice trick to help us use

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excellent okie cookie let's move on okie

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cookie okey coke is a hokey coke is a

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i mean i mean okie dokie okie dokie

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excellent so listen we've looked at

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different kinds of um

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into the nitty gritty and that's the

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detail

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let's have a look at some idioms to talk

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about people

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first of all we've got to be the

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spitting

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image of can you say that with me

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to be the spitting image of

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i am the spitting image of my father

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and it means i look exactly the same

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or very very similar to somebody

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next to be a loose cannon

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to be a loose cannon this is where

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somebody may talk

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and sometimes say bad things

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without realizing it right

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for example my friend alan right he's

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very talkative

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but he is a loose cannon sometimes

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he was down in the pub the other week

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with some colleagues

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two of them were irish and then alan

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starts telling an irish joke

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making fun of the irish

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he's a loose cannon right he didn't

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realize

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that he might be offending them next

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to get carried away and this is when

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somebody talks a lot

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without realizing they're talking too

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much

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allen is guilty of this when he's

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telling a story

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he gets carried away and he just

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carries on talking and talking and

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talking right it doesn't mean somebody

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picks him up

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and carries him away although that might

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be a good idea sometimes

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but he just goes on talking too much

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he gets carried away the next one

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to run in the family it runs in the

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family

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means that it's a characteristic of

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most of the people in that family so if

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a lot of people in the family are

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artistic

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or they're artists or painters and

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musicians

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you could say you know art runs in the

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family

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being an artist runs in the family

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the artistic spirit runs in the family

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and here you can change the for my your

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his right um

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the entrepreneurial spirit runs him in

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his family

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so you could use this when you're

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describing somebody

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and you're talking about a

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characteristic they have like

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for example being kind right jane is

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very very she's a very kind person

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she's very generous and you know being

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kind

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i think runs in her family so

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a lot of the other members of her family

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are also very kind

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nice next as bright as a button

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a nice simile as bright as a button

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and we contract the as to us

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as bright as a button

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bright meaning really clever or

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intelligent

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the button these are the buttons right

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and if they're shiny

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and they're clean they're bright as

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bright as a button means you're

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intelligent and clever right jane is as

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bright as a button

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who do you know that is as bright as a

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button

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give me a sentence

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nice and does it run in the family

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hmm right good another one

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is to think on your feet

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which means to think quickly to react

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and improvise okay so

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in ielts right the examiner can ask you

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surprise

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questions and you have to think on your

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feet

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right so my uncle tom who runs the

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restaurant right

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he's not called tom but let's call him

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tom for today

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my uncle tom can think on his feet

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he has to think on his feet because so

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many unexpected things happen

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in the restaurant what about you do you

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know somebody who can think

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on their feet

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very good if they can think on their

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thief if they can

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if if they can think on their feet

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they're probably as bright as a button

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lots of nice alliterations there right

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bright as a button think on your feet

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great pronunciation keep practicing

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next a bosom friend the bosom

399
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is just the chest part of the body so a

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bosom friend

401
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is a close friend right this is kind of

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like a metaphor

403
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sarah is a bosom friend right we go back

404
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a long way ah there's another to go back

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a long way

406
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doesn't mean you're physically going

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back all the way to manchester

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it means we have known each other for a

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long time

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we go back a long way

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sarah is a buzzing friend we go back a

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long way

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next to know someone like the back

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of your hand if you

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know somebody or something like the back

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of your hand

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it's assumed you know them very well

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right i know her like the back of my

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hand give me an example

420
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and this yes you can probably use for

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family members right

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i know my sister like the back of my

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hand

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or my university friend um alan

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yeah he's a bosom friend we go back a

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long way

427
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i know him like the back of my hand

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yes it's okay to cough in ielts speaking

429
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well not these days we have to have the

430
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mask right

431
00:19:13.600 --> 00:19:17.359
but let's move on to hit

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it off and that would connect

433
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probably to say to hit it off

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hit it off hit it off

435
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great we hit it off

436
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we hit it off as soon as we met

437
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great to hit it off means to get on

438
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very well right the first time i met

439
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alan we

440
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hit it off straight away

441
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nice to see eye to eye

442
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to see i to i

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just means to agree right

444
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so although

445
00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:07.919
i've known alan for donkey's years right

446
00:20:07.919 --> 00:20:08.480
we go

447
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back a long way he's a buzzing friend

448
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and although we hit it off when we first

449
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met

450
00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:19.840
we don't always see eye to eye

451
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don't always agree to see eye to eye

452
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next um a woman after my own heart

453
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or a man after my own heart

454
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right now this means that

455
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you are very similar and you admire

456
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the other person's thinking or

457
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philosophy

458
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or way of living right so i can say to a

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man

460
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oh you're a man after my own heart

461
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which means we do things and we think in

462
00:20:54.080 --> 00:20:56.799
a similar way and i like that

463
00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:58.799
it doesn't mean that i love you there's

464
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nothing about heart being in love it

465
00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:02.960
just means that we are similar and we

466
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think in a similar way

467
00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:08.559
right she's a woman after my own heart

468
00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:10.559
for example i have a friend right who's

469
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trying to teach her children to cook

470
00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:15.359
even though they're very very young i

471
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think that's fantastic i think we should

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get

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children into the kitchen very very

474
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young she's a woman

475
00:21:21.520 --> 00:21:24.960
after my own heart right

476
00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:29.359
we think in similar ways great

477
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next to be second to none

478
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second to none means to be the very best

479
00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.480
okay um so for example

480
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the food in spain is second to none

481
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it's really good it's the very best

482
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talking about people you can take

483
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any activity somebody does and say

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when it comes to cooking she's second to

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none

486
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when it comes to singing she's second to

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none

488
00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:04.480
when it comes to helping others he's

489
00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:08.080
second to none right their very best at

490
00:22:08.080 --> 00:22:08.400
that

491
00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:11.919
activity take the activity of playing

492
00:22:11.919 --> 00:22:12.799
football

493
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what could you say

494
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yes when it comes to playing football

495
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he's second to none starting a business

496
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when it comes to starting a business she

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is

498
00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:35.119
second to none right the very best at

499
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doing it

500
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great talking about helping people um

501
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we have the expression to go out on a

502
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limb

503
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now a limb is like the arm or the leg

504
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it's one part of the body that sticks

505
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out

506
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um arms and legs are our limbs

507
00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.640
so to go out on a limb

508
00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:59.520
means to to try really hard to help

509
00:22:59.520 --> 00:23:02.480
somebody and even to take a risk

510
00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:06.400
but to help somebody right

511
00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:10.080
so i will go out on a limb

512
00:23:10.080 --> 00:23:13.359
to help my best friend right if they

513
00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:14.799
need to borrow the car

514
00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:16.960
or they need to borrow some money i will

515
00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:18.000
try my best

516
00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:21.840
i will go out on a limb to help them

517
00:23:21.840 --> 00:23:25.039
to be highly strong

518
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to be highly strong means to be

519
00:23:28.640 --> 00:23:31.679
a little bit nervous and to be upset

520
00:23:31.679 --> 00:23:35.840
easily so somebody who is always nervous

521
00:23:35.840 --> 00:23:36.559
a little bit

522
00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:39.600
tense and easily upset

523
00:23:39.600 --> 00:23:42.400
right yep i don't like your shirt what

524
00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:44.080
do you mean you don't like my shirt

525
00:23:44.080 --> 00:23:48.000
it's a beautiful shirt highly strung

526
00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:51.440
very tense very easily upset right

527
00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.600
um i have a colleague well i used to

528
00:23:53.600 --> 00:23:55.200
have a colleague at work um

529
00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:57.200
every day i mean she was very highly

530
00:23:57.200 --> 00:23:58.320
strung

531
00:23:58.320 --> 00:24:01.760
people would say the smallest thing

532
00:24:01.760 --> 00:24:04.320
and if she thought it was negative she

533
00:24:04.320 --> 00:24:06.880
would fly off the handle

534
00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:09.919
fly off the handle get upset right

535
00:24:09.919 --> 00:24:12.159
she was very very highly strung so you

536
00:24:12.159 --> 00:24:14.400
had to be careful what you said

537
00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:17.760
next to her to be a know it all

538
00:24:17.760 --> 00:24:21.119
know it all as a noun

539
00:24:21.119 --> 00:24:24.159
ah know it all is

540
00:24:24.159 --> 00:24:27.840
a person who thinks they know everything

541
00:24:27.840 --> 00:24:30.240
right of course they don't nobody does

542
00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:32.640
but somebody who's maybe arrogant

543
00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:35.359
and thinks they know everything he's a

544
00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:36.640
know-it-all

545
00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:39.760
so slightly negative connotation

546
00:24:39.760 --> 00:24:43.520
right yeah you may have a boss like that

547
00:24:43.520 --> 00:24:45.919
who thinks you know they know everything

548
00:24:45.919 --> 00:24:46.960
and they tell you

549
00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:49.679
and like you know my boss he's a

550
00:24:49.679 --> 00:24:51.919
know-it-all

551
00:24:51.919 --> 00:24:53.760
so it's not a compliment it's a little

552
00:24:53.760 --> 00:24:56.080
bit of a criticism

553
00:24:56.080 --> 00:25:00.559
next she doesn't suffer fools gladly

554
00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:04.240
to suffer fools a fool is like a stupid

555
00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:05.039
person

556
00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:08.400
gladly means happily so

557
00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:13.039
to happily be with stupid people

558
00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:16.720
then it's not that so she's not

559
00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:19.840
happy about being with stupid people

560
00:25:19.840 --> 00:25:22.960
she doesn't suffer fools gladly

561
00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:25.279
so that means she will you know be quite

562
00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:27.679
strict and punish people who make

563
00:25:27.679 --> 00:25:29.200
mistakes

564
00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:31.840
this is very common in the business

565
00:25:31.840 --> 00:25:32.640
workplace

566
00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:35.359
where your boss can be quite strict and

567
00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:37.119
if people make mistakes

568
00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:39.279
they punish them and they're very very

569
00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:40.880
tough with them

570
00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:43.919
because they're not happy with stupid

571
00:25:43.919 --> 00:25:44.480
people

572
00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:46.640
of course it's not stupid they just made

573
00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:47.520
a mistake

574
00:25:47.520 --> 00:25:50.720
but the expression is he doesn't suffer

575
00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:54.000
fools gladly right so be careful with

576
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that boss

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because he's very strict and he will

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punish you

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right because he doesn't suffer fools

580
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gladly

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similarly he will come down on you

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like a ton of bricks metaphor

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a ton is a large weight

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bricks to build the house like a stone

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imagine a ton of bricks falling on you

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not nice

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right so when somebody is going to

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punish you quite strictly

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they come down on you like a ton of

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bricks

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so be careful with that boss because he

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doesn't suffer fools gladly

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and if you make a mistake he will come

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down on you

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like a ton of bricks

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and finally to be set in your ways

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that's somebody who doesn't like change

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so sometimes older people maybe

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booby bamas baby boomers

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whoops maybe baby boomers um

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are set in their ways right

602
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actually my you know my grandfather he's

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set in his ways

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he can't change who do you know

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00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:15.279
that is set in their ways

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good and remember the pronoun will

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change so he is set

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in his ways i am set in my ways

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right great so here we have

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lots of idioms to describe people we're

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gonna finish

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up now with a little story introducing

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two people

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and let's see these idioms in action

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this is adam and this is adam's father

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adam is the spitting image of his father

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and as you can see they're both

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vertically challenged

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adam's very talkative but he's a loose

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cannon at times

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last week he was having a drink with

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some new colleagues

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two of whom were irish and he started

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telling jokes about irish people

625
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you know he really put his foot in it

626
00:28:15.679 --> 00:28:18.799
mind you his father right

627
00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:21.520
he does the same he's always putting his

628
00:28:21.520 --> 00:28:23.760
foot in it

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i think it must run in the family

630
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that said adam is as bright as a button

631
00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:35.039
right and he can think on his feet for

632
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example when he's in a meeting

633
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he can present ideas clearly without

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preparation

635
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now this is sarah she's a buzzing friend

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00:28:44.159 --> 00:28:45.279
of adams

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00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:47.840
they go back a long way and they hit it

638
00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:50.960
off as soon as they met each other

639
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adam knows sarah like the back of his

640
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hand

641
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mind you they don't always see eye to

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00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.559
eye

643
00:29:02.159 --> 00:29:04.640
when it comes to helping out others

644
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:06.480
sarah is second to none

645
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:09.120
she's always ready to go out on a limb

646
00:29:09.120 --> 00:29:10.559
to help a friend

647
00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:12.240
if you need to borrow money or just

648
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:15.360
someone to talk to

649
00:29:15.520 --> 00:29:17.760
as for her personality well she's not

650
00:29:17.760 --> 00:29:19.039
very expressive

651
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:22.480
in fact she's as cool as a cucumber

652
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:25.520
she works in a bank she's also

653
00:29:25.520 --> 00:29:29.120
a little highly strung she always seems

654
00:29:29.120 --> 00:29:30.080
to be in a rush

655
00:29:30.080 --> 00:29:32.480
shouting at people in her office and

656
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:34.799
with the smallest negative comment from

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00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:35.840
anyone she'll

658
00:29:35.840 --> 00:29:39.600
fly off the handle at times

659
00:29:39.600 --> 00:29:42.399
i feel sorry for her co-workers because

660
00:29:42.399 --> 00:29:44.880
she doesn't suffer fools gladly

661
00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:47.279
if you make a mistake she'll be down on

662
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:48.159
you like a

663
00:29:48.159 --> 00:29:51.279
ton of bricks she really is

664
00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:54.399
set in her ways so as you can see

665
00:29:54.399 --> 00:29:57.440
adam and sarah they are like chalk and

666
00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:00.000
cheese

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so that's it listen it's been great

668
00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:04.080
being with you today

669
00:30:04.080 --> 00:30:06.080
thank you so much for coming along i've

670
00:30:06.080 --> 00:30:07.360
really enjoyed it

671
00:30:07.360 --> 00:30:10.240
i hope this can help you we should do

672
00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:11.279
this more often

673
00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:14.240
right do come along to the live lessons

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if you want to practice

675
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and i guess that's an important point

676
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right you've seen lots of idioms today

677
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but really the key is in the practice so

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if you need

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00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:26.480
so what you need to do now is start

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00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:27.760
practicing that

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if you're looking for a speaking partner

682
00:30:29.600 --> 00:30:31.360
why not pop along to

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00:30:31.360 --> 00:30:34.399
my facebook group you can look for it in

684
00:30:34.399 --> 00:30:36.960
facebook keith's ielts mastermind

685
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:37.840
community

686
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lots of people there very active and

687
00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:42.000
also looking for speaking partners

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00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:43.919
and then you can start putting this into

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00:30:43.919 --> 00:30:46.480
practice which is where you really step

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00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:49.039
up your level thanks for joining me

691
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today do remember

692
00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:52.320
if you haven't yet um to subscribe to

693
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the channel turn on the notifications

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and i can't wait to see you next time

695
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in the meantime take care all the best

696
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now bye-bye