LetThemTalkTV presents 101 must-know English idioms in
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You know what they say "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" so let's go so
So I said to her, "Angela sweetheart you know that there's nobody in my life except
you" she said "my name's Susan" I put my foot in it there
congratulations Jeremy you've passed all your exams with flying colors
he told me that his job as a janitor was just a cover
and in reality he was a spy for the CIA frankly I found his story a little
I've been making YouTube videos for 30 years now it's not easy
now I'm no spring chicken anymore happy 2045 everybody. O my back!
apparently she heard about the job word-of-mouth not through an ad but
through a friend of her cousins who works at the gasworks
hello darling you wanna go dancing tonight we can shut cha cha
- I'll take a rain-check
Ok you found eight billion dollars in a bank account in the Cayman
Islands but I promise you, my people, it's all above board I would never do
Are you still in bed? it's 6:00 a.m. the taxi arrives in 20
minutes wakey wakey rise and shine
OK so you can get into medical school but
don't beat yourself up you did your best
can I pick your brains about something
you're a lawyer and I have a legal question
A vegetarian English breakfast
and a matcha latte just what the doctor ordered
Do I know Harry McNulty, Harry McNulty mmm maybe I just can't remember
where for me his name rings a bell
Do I still see Sharon we're friends on
Facebook by oh nice ear once in a blue moon
Doris has rejected my advances 42 times but I'm
going to make one last-ditch attempt to get her
-I'm going to invite her to lunch in the Maldives.
They say that you are my spitting image
- That's nonsense I look nothing like you
to spend a penny do you have any.....-
Got your coats got your bags got your banjos okay let's hit the road.
he's a very nice guy that's what
they say but, I don't know, I just don't like the cut of his jib
ah look what the cat dragged in
Johnny has gone AWOL he went out to lunch like three hours ago
and he hasn't come back we'd better start the meeting without him
How do you use this coffee machine?
- oh come on it's not rocket science just putting a coffee and
How much do I owe you for the matcha latte?
it's on the house mate oh okay Cheers
I don't want to blow my own trumpet
but I'm the best English teacher in the world.
- No you're not, there are loads better than you in fact you're an idiot who
knows nothing. what an ergative verb? see you don't know
get the job without experience and I can't get experience without the job
I don't if I'll like this new editing software but you get
30-day free trial so I'll give it a whirl and if I like it I'll buy it
I hate Perkins that stupid *** Pardon my French
I love my Paris apartment by its really
really small I mean there's no room to swing a cat in here
down come on I'm only five minutes late keep your hair on
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ETI my new laptop really is the dog's bollocks
I wanted to have a quiet beer in the dog and duck but it was
chock-a-block so we had to find somewhere else
going to the post office maybe I'll bump into Doris while she's buying a stamp
- you've really got a crush on Doris
I was off work for six months before the
operation but I'm delighted to say that I've completely recovered and now I'm as
I was on holiday in Kerala walking through a tea plantation
and do you know who I bumped into cousin Bob it's a small world
up Muswell Hill when these three men came out of the blue they knocked me over and
stole my grande pumpkin spice latte with almond milk that cost me 12 quid
I'd love to come to your fancy dress party but I've got other fish to fry
I'm Horace I'm the new office assistant hello Horace let me show you the ropes
I'm supposed to be getting married tomorrow but now I'm getting cold feet
I've been in this village all my life I've had enough I've got itchy feet I
want to go out leave this place and see the world
Learning a foreign language is hard
it requires years of hard work and dedication. There is no silver bullet
You' haven't spoken to your friend Mike for over 20 years why because he said he
didn't like Bob Dylan's voice isn't it time to bury the hatchet?
- bastard
so I lost my job and I went to the casino to try and win some money but I lost it all
now I don't have a pot to piss in
dead as a dodo we found him in the carpark with 14 bullets in his chest
you Cadillac I said how can you afford a brand-new Cadillac on your salary
my new private jet is the best thing since sliced bread.
Ok guys the performance begins in five minutes get
First you murdered Johnson then you lured McNulty into the
car park and shot him 14 times but now it's over we know you did it and you're
- why are you pointing that banana at me?
One restaurant in the neighborhood started putting avocado on toast on its menu and
now they're all doing it no originality just jumping on the bandwagon
Our hot cakes are selling like hotcakes
Perkins ran off with my girlfriend
Perkins said nasty things about my friends needless to say there is no love
IPA delicious I could drink this until the cows come home
five thousand Candidates I almost got selected to be an astronaut
- yes almost. Close but no cigar
So they paid me to play video games and tell them what I
thought about them that's money for a rope
Someone told my girlfriend that I was having an affair with Mildred did you
spill the beans bloody bastard
Sometimes to save money they don't put saffron in
the paella they use food colouring but here we use
Look at you scruffy hair overweight untidy
okay stop messing around everybody stop
messing around knuckle down we've got a lot of work to do today
The prime minister said he would never never raise
taxes and then when he got elected he said you know what we need to raise
there's a transport strike today but by hook or by crook I will get to the audition I will
These days kids take their holidays in
places such as Thailand's New Zealand Brazil Florida and other far flung
places when I was young we went to Bournemouth every summer for two weeks
ukuleles are all the rage these days everyone wants to have one
We arrived in the nick of time two minutes later and our flight would have left
You know Doris was talking to Sanjeev for over an hour at the party
- beware of the green-eyed monster my friend
We knew someone was stealing money from the till
so we installed some cameras and guess what? we caught Perkins red-handed
What do I think of Brexit? Well the British have certainly shot themselves
So what was a new Japanese restaurant on Upper Street like?
I heard they flew the sushi chef over from Tokyo
- yeah but frankly it was nothing to write home about
What you can't come into work today because your grandmother died again
that's the third time you used that excuse
What you're going to marry Steve hold your horses young lady
before you tie the knot you should give it some considerable thought you've only
When Linda broke up with me I thought it was the end of
my world but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise because three weeks
When I asked you on a day you told me to get lost but now you
find out that I'm a billionaire you're changing your tune.
When I win the lottery I'm going to buy a house in London a house in Paris and travel the
- You haven't won the lottery yet don't count your chickens
When she found out that Derrick was cheating on her with
Ah no job, no money, girlfriend run off
with another guy you too guess we in the same boat
where's the phone? This has gone on too long I'm going to bite the bullet and tell Mildred it's over.
Will I be offered the job? it's in the bag my
friend. Do you know why? because my uncle owns the company.
Working and LetThemTalk is really
wonderful I love it but it's not all rainbows and unicorns, you
know, sometimes it's long hours and very very hard work
wrong that's not what I asked for I want you to go back and start from scratch
You know that if I could I would leave Sally and run away with you at the
drop of a hat but it's not that simple I'm a man with responsibilities
you like to dress like a baby put a thumb in your mouth while your girlfriend spanks your
bottom whatever floats your boat.
You should have bought Bitcoin in 2008
not now I'm afraid you've missed the boat on that one
Do you want to get a sandwich?
- No way I've just on a 12-hour shift at the factory and now I need a
You're 35 years old you want to become a professional
footballer hon you a bit over the hill?
We're very similar you and I we should
hang out more you know what they say birds of a
That was a brilliant speech you gave
about climate change I take my hat off to you sir
okay yes yes alive and kicking
he comes into the room sits down gets drunk
talks for hours about how immigrants are ruining in the country and how
climate changes are hoax. He's a real pain in the arse I wish he would get lost
Uncle Harry has kicked the bucket he was only 86. I guess he had a
good innings. What he left me a million pounds in
his will. That's a turn up for the books. I liked uncle Harry he was a salt of the earth
one moment he was there and then suddenly he vanished into thin air.
I'm exhausted I'm going to hit the
sack good night everybody. Good night, sleep tight, sleep tight
you've got a lot of nerve to say you or my friend when I was down you just stood