The English We Speak

  • Autore: Vários
  • Narratore: Vários
  • Editore: Podcast
  • Durata: 34:19:23
  • Altre informazioni

Informações:

Trama

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

Episodi

  • Bleed someone dry

    15/05/2018 Durata: 02min

    An expression for a financial injury

  • Small change

    08/05/2018 Durata: 02min

    A phrase for trivial things

  • That'll teach you

    01/05/2018 Durata: 02min

    Learn from what you've done

  • An old hand

    24/04/2018 Durata: 02min

    Someone who's skilled and experienced

  • Out of the loop

    17/04/2018 Durata: 02min

    Learn a phrase about missing out.

  • Rub it in

    10/04/2018 Durata: 02min

    Learn an expression about enjoying someone's misfortunes.

  • Smombie

    03/04/2018 Durata: 02min

    Are you a smartphone zombie?

  • Freegan

    27/03/2018 Durata: 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 Durata: 02min

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

  • Cloud cuckoo land

    13/03/2018 Durata: 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 Durata: 02min

    Payback time

  • Happy-go-lucky

    27/02/2018 Durata: 02min

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

  • Whizz-kid

    20/02/2018 Durata: 02min

    Young, clever and successful: find out a phrase that describes someone like this

  • The best of both worlds

    13/02/2018 Durata: 02min

    Can you enjoy the advantages of two different situations at the same time? You can if you use this phrase

  • Bone idle

    06/02/2018 Durata: 02min

    Are you taking it easy or just being lazy? Here's a phrase to describe your condition

  • To cut a long story short

    30/01/2018 Durata: 03min

    Have you got a story to tell? Here's a phrase about just telling the important bits

  • A thing

    29/01/2018 Durata: 02min

    Beards have been 'a thing' for a while. Is it now time to shave them off?

  • Just the ticket

    23/01/2018 Durata: 03min

    Rob and Feifei help teach a phrase to describe something you really want or need

  • Do a runner

    09/01/2018 Durata: 02min

    Is it time to go? Here's a phrase about avoiding a tricky situation

  • All that jazz

    26/12/2017 Durata: 02min

    We love slang, idioms, phrases and all that jazz! Learn a new phrase with us

pagina 19 Digita qui 37