Advanced words and phrases in English (Improve your English) English Conversation Practice

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hello hello welcome to a new program of  tangerin TV good morning teacher how are
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you morning Clark I'm great so happy to  be here to help the students improve their
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English and we are so happy  to have you here teacher I  
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know today you will teach us something important
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the students have been asking for more  advanced vocabulary to improve their
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English yes I know I always read their  comments thank you for your support by the
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way and of course I will teach you some  Advanced vocabulary this time related to
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business idioms are absolutely Ely essential  
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in talking business when it  comes down to understanding
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others and expressing yourself because if  you're lacking a good understanding of English
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idioms you will easily get lost in  a business conversation in order  
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to help you find your way through the  jungle of business idioms I will give  
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you some very commonly used used  idioms if you're ready then let's
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start ahead of the pack it means  to be more successful than the
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competition oh for you to understand better I will  give you some examples for each Advanced phrase
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okay if we want to stay ahead of the pack  we'll have have to increase our marketing
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budget with the finished line inside Wallace  pulled ahead of the pack and drove to
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Victory back to square one to start something  over again because a previous attempt
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failed for example to make this software  finally work we have to go back to square
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one or if this doesn't work we're back to square  one what else ballpark number figure it means a  
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very in exact estimate or a bpark figure is a raw  numerical estimate or approximation of the value  
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of something that is otherwise unknown I will give  you some examples so you can understand better for
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example to give you a ballpark figure how much the  Border world to Mexico is going to cost I'd say  
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about $30 million but what are we talking about  here a few thousand Millions to Bucks give me a  
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ballpark figure another phrase big picture  everything that is involved with a particular  
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situation for example working on all these  details we have lost sight of the big
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picture in my political work I try to concentrate  on the big picture and not be distracted by detail
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by the book it means to do things  exactly according to the rules or the
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law for example we told our Auditors  that we do everything by the
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book or the lawyers want to make sure  we've done everything strictly by the book
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Corner the market it simply  means to dominate a particular
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market for example Amazon more or  less Corners the online retailing
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Market they've more or less carered the fast food  market they are in every big city in the world
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Easy Come Easy Go what does it mean  something gained easily is also lost  
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easily example I lost 500 in a pocker  game last night but that's life easy  
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come easy go she never took things very  seriously Easy Come Easy Go was her motto
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game plan it means a strategy  or plan for achieving
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success for example what is our  game plan for dealing with our new
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competitor or the governor is developing  a game plan to lure businesses to the
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region get down to business stop making  a small talk and start talking about  
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serious business topics for example now  that everyone's here let's get down to  
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business and start with the presentation or  let's skip the formalities and get down to
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business get something off the ground  to start something like a project or a  
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business example now that we have finished  the planning phase we're eager to get the  
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project off the ground or a lot more money  will be required to get this project off the
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ground go down the drain what is  the meaning something is wasted or
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lost for example all our efforts in  entering this new market went down  
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the drain with renting we felt the money  was virtually going down the drain every
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month go the extra mile it means  to do more than what people
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expect for example to give our customers  the best shopping experience we go the extra
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mile or the president is  determined to go the extra mile for
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peace hands are tied it means not being  free to behave in the way that you would
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like I want to give you an example  at love to help you but my hands are
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tied politicians are always saying that  they want to help us but their hands are
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tied in a nutshell what does  it mean using as few words as
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possible for example in a nutshell  we will run out of cash in 3 months
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time to put it in a nutshell we're  bankrupt that in a nutshell is what  
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we're doing in full swing at a stage  when the level of activity is at it's  
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highest for example construction of our  new production site is in full swing
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now or the International Film  Festival was in full swing when we
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arrived in the driver's seat it means to  be in charge or in control of a situation
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example being offered the position of  managing director I'll soon be in the  
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driver's seat or now he knows he's in the  driver's seat and can wait for a better
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deal there are a lot more I mean more idioms  related to business but it's late for me  
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