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Every week, we look at a different everyday English phrase or piece of slang in this fun three-minute programme. From BBC World Service
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4If you need an alternative option, you need to know this phrase. Learn how to use it.
Sometimes you just want to find out what someone else thinks.
When companies or people can't be trusted, use this expression.
Do you want to beat your friends by saying what you have done that is better than them?
It can be annoying when someone does something you were supposed to do.
How do we talk about complicated tasks done by your brain?
If you want to get the last slice of pizza, what can you say?
What makes you want to run for the hills?
How do you feel when someone does something that you would never do, but it's OK?
If you are presented with an opportunity, how can you tell some to take advantage?
How to tell someone that the bad situation they are experiencing is the same as yours.
Learn a phrase to say that you are happy to do what other want to do
Learn a phrase about wanting to have two good things at the same time.
Learn a phrase about giving information little by little.
Learn about this word that describes someone disorganised or forgetful.
Learn a phrase for winning!
A phrase all about being perfect!
An expression with 'kiss' that's not about kissing!
Learn a phrase about pretending to work.
Learn how to describe your annoyance
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Minging There is no getting away from it, we human being seemed to be at almost inventive when thinking our words to insult each other with. A select list of adjective weve applied over the past 100 year to people or things we find disgusting word include: scroungy, skanky, manky, icky, grootty, grungy, poxy, scuzzy, oncus; that's stralian, yucky naughty, spetic. I could go on. one recent addition to this armory of scorn specialy versatile and given it history fairly pungent it's minging! that curry he cooked up for at last night was really mean. We have Scotland to thanks for it. In Scotland English ming is an old word for a bad smell so originally minging is for a bad smell as It still can but of course calling some one smelly is prefect way of insulting them at around year 2003 British teenagers started using more broadly to mean disgusting it can also mean ugly or unatractive and in an interesting development similar to stinking you can use someone is drunk. He only had two pin
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Bridezilla Weddings can be stressful occasions you know how it is, the closer big day approaches the move wound up every on envolved get the bride be first tantrums every small details preparation isn't prefect the bride father wants take the over whole affair and run it himself with that consulting their happy couple bride grooms mother losing her son to women how doesn't come up to own high standard interfer every turn ever resourceful English language now has word for all of three of them. the pushy father is a dadzilla, the possessive mother is a Mozilla and then the obnoxious bride to be is a bridezilla this last was the coinage that started trend in the USA in the mid 1990s and it can cover the whole range of brightly imperfection from spitefulness towards the bridesmaid to wedding present greed he can be applied to bring grooms to. the American singer Katy perry recently called he fiance the British comedian Russell brand bridezilla because he was getting over excited about t
Are you a tweeter? If so, you're now one of close on a hundred million people around the world, the tweeter phenomenon which started in California in 2006. has informed short years thoroughly embedded itself in humanties communications systems. In case you're one of the people never heard of it, it's an internet social networking site, which enables users to communicate with others by means of text base masages up to 140 characters, its funder jack dorsey wanted a name for it that suggested the trembling, vibration of a ringing phone and he came up with tweeter. The main meaning of that word's is of course, the small quiet reapeated sounds made by birds and when people wanted to refer and individuals tweeter manages their was another very similar English word of nearly identical meaning ready an wating tweet This first appeared as the noun ain 2007 and the verb soon followed meaning to send tweeter massage. As in 100 people tweeted her after her article appeared in the newspaper. If
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Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, I'm Li. And here with me is Neil. Hi Neil! Neil: Hi Li! But before we start the programme I've got some good news for you. I've just fixed your bike tyres as I promised! It wasn't easy to find the punctures on them but I managed to do it and the bike, I have to say, is as good as new! Li: Oh, great! I am so happy, Neil! You know, I use the bicycle every day. I ride it when I come to work and when I go home. You know, I took it to the mechanic last week to have it fixed and he didn't do it properly. Thank you! You are a star! Neil: It wasn't easy but I am glad to have been of service. Well, you told me that you'd pay me for the work so now would be a good time to do that because actually I am a bit short of cash at the moment, you know. Li: Oh, you want to receive some payment? Yes, I remember that I promised you'd get paid. That's fair. Okay. Here you are! Neil: What are these? Li: Your payment, Neil. Neil: Peanuts?! Li: Yes, Neil. You keep sa