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5 Common British English Expressions (Episode 3)

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Today we have another episode of my fabulous

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5 Common British Expressions

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Ok so our first expression is 'a piece of cake'

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And this is very similar to 'easy peasy lemon squeezy'

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which we've discussed in a previous video

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And basically, it means very easy

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So I might come out of a particularly easy exam saying:

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"That exam was a piece of cake."

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"That exam was really easy."

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So, number two, 'break a leg'

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Actually looks really rather cruel

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But, I promise you it's positive

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And, 'break a leg' means 'good luck'

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So, before a race, before a job interview, before a test...

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Instead of saying 'good luck' I might say break a leg

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do really well

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So, since we're talking about legs, let's bring arms into the equation as well

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Number 3 is it cost an arm and a leg

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And this basically means something was really expensive

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If I say my bag cost an arm and a leg

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I mean

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it cost a lot of money

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Now, the next one isn't particularly nice

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It is 'to pop one's clogs'

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And this actually means 'to die'

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But we use it quite affectionately, it's like a nice way of saying that someone's died

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So, I'm going to a funeral this Sunday

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My neighbour's popped his clogs

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It's a way of saying 'my neighbour's died'

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But we don't want to say the 'death' word

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So we say they've popped their clogs

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And then we have number 5

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To call it a day, and this means to end a task

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So for example "I'm feeling a bit tired"

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"I think I'll call it a day"

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And that means "I think I'll stop here, let's finish"

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So, well, as we've come to number 5

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I think I'll call it a day now!

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Bye!

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Thank you so much for watching this episode of 5 Common British Expressions

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I hope you liked it and I hope you learnt something

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As I said before

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And have a very lovely week!

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