Your personal path to success in English
If you speak English at work, you have probably come across idioms on many occasions. Idioms are those little phrases that have a special meaning which is different to the meaning of the individual words in that phrase. They are very common among high-level English speakers and some are often used specifically in business situations. […]
How many times have you been listening to a colleague speaking English and heard a word or phrase which doesn’t seem to fit into the conversation? Hi Bob, how are you today? Great thanks, Hiroko, but it’s raining cats and dogs outside today, isn’t it? If you would walk away from this conversation thinking […]
If you ask a native speaker to explain what an idiom is, they would probably have no idea. Idioms are intrinsically used in our everyday, spoken and written English. However, many English learners struggle with idioms because they don’t seem to fit the context. If your colleague were to describe that day’s technical issues as […]