2021-12-12
20 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome to my podcast where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language so that perhaps you can find your way through the minefield that exists, particularly if you're going to do some job interviews with international companies, or indeed if you just want to have better conversations when you travel abroad or with your friends and colleagues.
So we'll help you with the grammar, pronunciation, phrasal verbs, expressions, everything connected with English.
And of course, as always, at the end of this particular podcast, I'm going to give you my contact details, and if you want to give those to somebody else who you think will benefit from this, well, please do.
So, what are we going to talk about today?
Well, in this particular podcast, we're going to look at something really interesting because everybody likes to talk about this.
Everybody likes secrets and everybody likes a little bit of gossip.
So we're going to look at idioms about secrets and gossip.
Okay, so people like secrets, they like to share them with someone, even though they are secret, they feel they have to share them.
And gossip is something we have in the office, in the bar, in the football club or tennis club, wherever we happen to be.
So as always, I'm going to go through these one by one.
So I'll give them to you, then I'll give you some examples and hopefully you'll be able to use them in your english going forward.
So here they are.
My lips are sealed.
To dish the dirt, to keep something under your hat, to sweep something under the rug or under the carpet on the sly a little bird told me to spill the beans, to be a fly on the wall, to cover your tracks, and then finally to bite your tongue.
Okay, so we're going to go through them and hopefully I'll be able to give you an explanation, an example, and then you'll be able to practice.
Okay, so first one, my lips are sealed.
Well, of course, when our lips are sealed, like anything that is sealed, it's tight shut.
Yeah, so as if you put some glue between your lips so you're not able to speak.
So when we tell somebody, my lips are sealed, of course we want to hear all the juicy bits of the gossip or the particular secret, what the person has done and what they have seen or what they've heard.
But we say, oh yeah, you can tell me, but my lips are sealed.