
Learning English Conversations
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Thanks a bunch
When does ‘thanks’ not mean ‘thanks’? Find out about an ironic English phrase.

Slow walk
How do you describe something making slow progress?

Take something to heart
Learn a phrase about taking advice or criticism personally and very seriously.

Take something to heart
If someone takes something to heart, what does it mean?

Know the score
Learn a phrase about understanding the situation.

Jog your memory
Learn a phrase about remembering.

A flying start
Learn an expression we use to say a new task is going very well.

Steal someone's thunder
If you get more attention than someone else, what are you doing? Here's a useful phrase!

Call it a day
A phrase about doing enough

Off the top of my head
When you don’t have the facts and figures at hand, you have to make a quick guess.

Change for the better
Do you want to make a positive change for 2023? We have an expression for you to learn.

The gift that keeps on giving
Learn a phrase about receiving presents.

Quiet quitting
Learn a phrase about just doing enough.

Hang in there
Times can be challenging but don’t give up. We have a phrase to spur you on.

Bite your tongue
What does ‘bite your tongue’ mean?

Win hands down
An easy phrase for an easy win!

Fever pitch
The men’s football World Cup is coming, and excitement has reached fever pitch!

Twiddle your thumbs
A phrase for boring times.

Get your act together
A phrase about good organisation.

Dog's dinner
Learn this phrase to describe a complete mess.

Sitting pretty
Learn a phrase to describe a good situation.

Feast your eyes
Sometimes you can be amazed at what you see. Learn an expression for these moments.

Put the brakes on
Learn a phrase about stopping or slowing down an activity.

Second-guess
If you don't know what's going to happen next, you have to guess.

Ins and outs
Learn about a new expression and why Feifei gets a shock!

Yes and no
Not all answers in life are 'yes' or 'no'. Learn why with this phrase.

Eat your words
Learn a phrase about being wrong.

Bug someone
Sometimes people or things just annoy you. Learn a phrase about this.

Willy-nilly
Learn an informal expression about doing things without planning.

Willy-nilly
A random phrase

Gnarly
Do you find something disgusting? Use this word to describe it.

Smash it
Learn a phrase to give encouragement

A doddle
Is this phrase easy to learn?

It’s now or never
Learn how to use ‘it’s now or never’

Happy days
Learn a phrase to use when you hear good news.

Double down
Learn a phrase about extra effort.

Game face
Learn an expression about determination.

Bitten by the bug
Learn a phrase about becoming interested and excited in doing something.

It escapes me
A phrase about forgetting something

Onboarding
Starting a new job means becoming familiar with new duties!

Thereby hangs a tale
When there is more to say....

The royal treatment
Are you ready to feel like a king or a queen?

Tell me about it
Sometimes people say something that you can’t help but agree with. Learn a new phrase.

Creatively bankrupt
Do you ever feel like your creativity just vanishes? Here's a phrase for that situation.

As if
A phrase to use when someone says something that is ridiculous or blatantly untrue.

Bad hair day
How are you looking today? Could you be having a bad hair day?

'Ish' - The English We Speak
Make the English you speak sound more natural

Promises, promises
Learn a new expression about not believing someone’s promises.

Not see hide nor hair
Sometimes it’s impossible to find someone. Here's a phrase to use in this situation.

A curate's egg
Learn an odd expression which means something is a little good but mainly bad