Learn these advanced phrases to help you speak competently and sound like a native English speaker. ?
I'm going to teach you the meaning of these phrases as well as talk about how the vocabulary is used in context.
Learning this vocabulary will help you improve your listening and reading comprehension, while allowing you to be more descriptive and precise when having a conversation. ?
Here are the phrases from the lesson.
1. to bide your time
2. much ado about nothing
3. to keep (someone) in the dark
4. to jog your memory
5. to downplay (something)
6. to make a beeline for (some place)
7. to get your second wind
8. to catch flak
9. an eye-opening experience
10. to sell yourself short
11. (to be) in over your head
12. to put it in layman's terms
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///LESSON CHAPTERS
0:00 to bide your time
1:28 much ado about nothing
3:13 to keep (someone) in the dark
4:32 to jog your memory
6:16 to downplay (something)
8:03 to make a beeline for (some place)
9:40 to get your second wind
11:17 to catch flak
13:01 an eye-opening experience
14:08 to sell yourself short
15:16 (to be) in over your head
16:21 to put it in layman's terms
18:42 Review of the Phrases
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