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Feifei: Hello and welcome to The English
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We Speak, I'm Feifei...
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Rob: ... and hello, I'm Rob.
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Feifei: Errr, what is that smell?
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Rob: Smell? I can't smell anything.
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Feifei: There is definitely a terrible smell,
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like mouldy cheese. What's in that bag, Rob?
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Rob: Oh, this bag! You're right, it is
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cheese. Beautiful, delicious Stilton cheese
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in fact. Would you like some?
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Feifei: No! So why have you got a bag of
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mouldy cheese?
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Rob: Well, I stopped at the cheese shop
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on the way to the office and saw this
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cheese was half price - and you probably
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know, I have a good nose for a bargain.
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Feifei: I don't think so, Rob - judging by
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this cheese, you have a bad nose - it
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smells awful!
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Rob: No, Feifei. When you have a nose - or
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even a good nose - for something, it's not
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about your sense of smell. It describes
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someone who is naturally good at finding
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and recognising something - in my case,
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finding a bargain!
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Feifei: I'm not so sure about that, Rob!
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Well, I have a good nose for finding
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examples - so here they are...
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Examples: We need to sell more
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newspapers, so we need to find a
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reporter with a good nose for a story.
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I have a good nose for learning languages
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and was fluent in Spanish in just a year!
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My mum's got a nose for bargains and
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booked us all flights to Italy for just fifty
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pounds each.
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Feifei: This is The English We Speak from
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BBC Learning English and we're finding
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out about the phrase 'to have a good nose
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(for something)'. Rob claims to have one,
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but I'm not so sure. So how much did
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you pay for this cheese, Rob?
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Rob: Only 20 pounds - it was half price!
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Feifei: That's because it's old - look, it's
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going green! Sorry, Rob - this cannot stay
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in the studio. It stinks - out it goes.
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Rob: That's not very nice.
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Feifei: Hold on, I can still smell something
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bad. It's your socks! Look, you haven't got
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your shoes on. Urghhh!
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Rob: Wow, Feifei, you really have got a
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good nose - a good nose for bad smells!
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Feifei: Your bad smells, Rob!
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Rob: Time to go. Bye.
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Feifei: Bye.
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