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The English We Speak - To have all your Christmases come at once - BBC Sounds

The English We Speak - To have all your Christmases come at once - BBC Sounds

The English We Speak

To have all your Christmases come at onceTo have all your Christmases come at once

Released On: 28 Dec 2018

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An expression for when you have good fortune

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To have all your Christmases come at once
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A wake-up call
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Bog-standard
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One step at a time
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Crowdsourcing
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Doomscrolling
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Listicle
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Spoiler alert!
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Plastic footprint
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Sharenting
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Key worker
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Contact tracing
Learn vocabulary related to the coronavirus pandemic.
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On fleek
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Frontliner
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'A' game
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Tone deaf
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Mic drop
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Sadfishing
A word used when someone exaggerates their emotional problems to get attention.
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Slap-bang
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Moonshot
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Workation
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GOAT
'GOAT' is used to talk about things or people that we think are the best.
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Clout
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Awesomesauce
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Nothingburger
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Snap up
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Oomph
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Pizzazz
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Have a lot of plates spinning
A phrase about having a lot of things to do.
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It slaps!
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Botch job
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Zip it!
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The CEO of
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Push back
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Adulting
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Noob
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Vibe
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YOLO
Do you live for the moment?
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Yikes!
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Lit
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Savage
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Down / Up for something
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Obvs
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It’s the … for me
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Cringe
A word for when you want to say that something is really embarrassing.
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Bigwig
Here’s an expression to describe an important and powerful person.
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Lo and behold
Learn an expression to introduce a surprising part of a story.
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Zhuzh
Do you want to make something more interesting by changing it slightly?
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Extra
Learn an expression to describe how exaggerated some people are.
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Hits different
Here’s the expression you can use to talk about something special.
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Now you're talking
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Live rent-free in one's head
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A legend in one's lifetime
Do you know a famous living person? Here’s a phrase to describe them.
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Moreish
An expression you can use to talk food you can't resist.
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No cap
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Not a patch on something
Learn an expression for when something is far worse than something else.
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Quote ... unquote
An expression for when we want to repeat exactly what someone has said.
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Talk through your hat
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Clap back
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Another string to your bow
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I'll give you that
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Not like the sound of something
Don't like what you hear? Say it with this expression!
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Not looking too clever
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You shouldn't have
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Scrub up well
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Say no more
Learn a phrase about understanding someone.
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Eke out
We have the perfect phrase to describe making the most of what you’ve got left.
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As sick as a parrot
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There's nothing to it
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Cool cat
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You couldn't make it up
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Cramp my style
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Don't mind me
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The plot thickens
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Easier said than done
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Gathering dust
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That'll be the day
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Not see hide nor hair
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As if
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Creatively bankrupt
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Tell me about it
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The royal treatment
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Thereby hangs a tale
When there is more to say....
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It escapes me
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Bitten by the bug
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Game face
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Double down
Learn a phrase about extra effort.
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Happy days
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It’s now or never
Learn how to use ‘it’s now or never’
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A doddle
Is this phrase easy to learn?
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Smash it
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Gnarly
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