Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 363

和哈利一起说更好的英语|第363集

Speak Better English with Harry

2022-02-13

17 分钟
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Hi there, I'm Harry from www.englishlessonviaskype.com and welcome to my English learning podcast where I help you improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and grammar.In this podcast episode, you will learn popular English idioms related to health and illness. To knock someone for six. To feel under the weather. To kick the bucket. And more. I will give you detailed meanings and examples of how you can use them in your everyday English. Learn natural English expressions in con...
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  • Hi there.

  • Harry here, and welcome back to my podcast, where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language so that you can have good communication with your bosses, your friends, your colleagues.

  • If you want to travel, you want to get that job with an international company, you want to do that exam, whatever it is you're trying to achieve, come along, we'll help you.

  • We've got lots of issues to cover in relation to grammar, phrasal, verbs, idioms, everything that you need.

  • As always, at the end of this particular podcast, I'll give you my personal contact details where you can contact me and if there's a friend or family member that you think will get some value from what we provide.

  • Well, why don't you give them the contact details?

  • Okay, what are we going to talk about today?

  • Well, today we want to look at some idioms, and the particular idioms that we're going to talk about are relating to health and illness.

  • So, idioms about health and illness, I'll give them to you once and then I'll go through them and hopefully be able to explain them to you.

  • Okay, here we go.

  • One, to knock someone for six, to feel under the weather.

  • Three, a wake up call.

  • Four, a shadow of your former self.

  • Five, to kick the bucket.

  • Six, to take the wind out of his sails or her sails.

  • Seven, the worse for wear.

  • Eight, on the mend.

  • Nine, out of sorts, and ten, if I got the numbers right.

  • On its last legs.

  • On its last legs.