2022-06-15
16 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to my advanced English lessons with Harry.
And today we're going to look at idioms and idioms connected with the summer.
So remember, what we're trying to do is to help you to get a better understanding of the english language.
We look at vocabulary, we look at pronunciation, phrasal, verbs, expressions, everything that will help you to communicate better both in your normal conversational English and also in your business English.
So today, as I said, we're going to look in the lesson at idioms, and we're looking at summer idioms.
I've got ten of them.
I'm going to give them to you one after the other, then go through them and try and give you an explanation.
And at the end of this, if you don't understand them well, just come back to me.
I'll give you the address at the end of this particular lesson.
Okay, so as I said, ten summer idioms.
So those of you who are just getting into summer or have been through the summer, whatever you do, if you like the summer, well, these idioms are just for you.
Number one, the calm before the storm.
The calm before the storm, an indian summer dog days of summer, full of hot air under the sun, a place in the sun.
One swallow doesn't make a summer a cold day in July to be in hot water, and then finally to make hay while the sun shines.
Okay, so let me go through these one after the other.
Now, some of these idioms, they have literal meanings, but they all have specific references to another story, and I'll give you the example of what that means when we come to it.
Okay.
And quite a few of them, I don't think, were discovered by anybody who lived in Ireland because some of the references are to really nice times in summer, and sometimes in Ireland the weather isn't so kind.
But anyway, we'll look at those another time.
So let's go one after another.