2021-08-25
20 分钟Hi there, guys, and welcome back.
This is Harry.
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So we're going to talk to you a bit about idioms today, and if there's anybody out there that you think will benefit from this, well, why don't you give them the contact details?
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So as always, we're going to talk about idioms.
I'm going to give you the list of these idioms, okay, one at a time, and then I go through with them with you.
And I'll give you some examples, these about idioms connected with music.
To blow your own trumpet.
A trumpet, okay, for a song, ring a bell, ring a bell like a broken record to play second fiddle, a fiddle to play second fiddle or a violin, all that jazz.
Play it by ear.
Play it by ear.
Fine tuning music to someone's ears.
Again, reference to ears, music to someone's ears, and finally to face to face the music.
Okay, so I'm going to go through them and I'll give you some examples.
So the first one, to blow your own trumpet.
So when we use the to blow your own trumpet, it means that you are telling people how to good you are, how good you can do something because other people apparently are not.
Yeah.
So if you're waiting for somebody to say, oh, Harry, he's great at that.