The English We Speak

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 33:14:53
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Synopsis

Every week, we look at a different everyday English phrase or piece of slang in this fun three-minute programme. From BBC World Service

Episodes

  • If the cap fits

    10/07/2018 Duration: 02min

    Learn an expression about accepting criticism

  • My bad

    03/07/2018 Duration: 02min

    Learn a phrase about accepting blame

  • To have a good nose (for something)

    26/06/2018 Duration: 02min

    Rob and Feifei sniff out a new phrase to learn

  • Friends in High Places

    19/06/2018 Duration: 02min

    Learn a phrase about important people

  • Catch-22

    12/06/2018 Duration: 02min

    Learn an expression for a no-win situation.

  • Let the dust settle

    05/06/2018 Duration: 02min

    Learn a phrase about allowing a situation to become calm again

  • Nothing to shout about

    29/05/2018 Duration: 02min

    Learn a phrase about not saying much

  • Let sleeping dogs lie

    22/05/2018 Duration: 03min

    Learn about a trouble-free phrase

  • Bleed someone dry

    15/05/2018 Duration: 02min

    An expression for a financial injury

  • Small change

    08/05/2018 Duration: 02min

    A phrase for trivial things

  • That'll teach you

    01/05/2018 Duration: 02min

    Learn from what you've done

  • An old hand

    24/04/2018 Duration: 02min

    Someone who's skilled and experienced

  • Out of the loop

    17/04/2018 Duration: 02min

    Learn a phrase about missing out.

  • Rub it in

    10/04/2018 Duration: 02min

    Learn an expression about enjoying someone's misfortunes.

  • Smombie

    03/04/2018 Duration: 02min

    Are you a smartphone zombie?

  • Freegan

    27/03/2018 Duration: 02min

    Are you someone who only eats food that has been wasted or thrown away? Learn a word that describes what you are

  • Barking up the wrong tree

    20/03/2018 Duration: 02min

    Have you ever made the wrong assumption? Here's a dog-related phrase to describe your actions

  • Cloud cuckoo land

    13/03/2018 Duration: 02min

    Can you make the impossible possible? This phrase implies you can't but what's it got to do with a cuckoo?

  • A taste of your own medicine

    06/03/2018 Duration: 02min

    Payback time

  • Happy-go-lucky

    27/02/2018 Duration: 02min

    Relaxed about the future? Here's a phrase that might describe your character

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