2024-03-06
15 分钟Hi there, this is Harry.
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And we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you in today's advanced english lessons looking at expressions or idioms with the verb get, okay, so idioms with verb get.
So I've got ten of them.
As usual, I'll go through them and I'll give you some examples.
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Okay, let's get on.
So the first one is get real, okay?
And so this is quite a modern interpretation of the idiom get real.
So somebody uses that when they're telling somebody to wise up or to get into the real world, not to be living in a fantasy.
So you might be talking to your friend, he says, oh, you know, it'd be great idea if I won the lotto, I'd retire, I'd stop working, I'd buy that car I always wanted, luxury, holidays, whatever.
And these friends says, ah, come on, get real.
You don't even buy a lotto ticket.
So to get real means come back to reality, wake up and smell the coffee.
Somebody says, okay, so to get real, think and be and live in the real world, get real.
Second one is get a life.
Now we use this expression when somebody perhaps is a workaholic, okay?
Or they spend all of their time doing things others of us might think are a little bit unusual or a little bit strange.