2021-06-13
16 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to my podcast where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the english language, how to use it better, how to use it in conversations, business, English, small talk, all aspects like that, looking at idioms, phrasal verbs, improving your grammar and pronunciation.
So if there's anybody you think would benefit from it or would enjoy it, well, give the contact details to them.
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Okay, so what are we going to talk about in this episode?
Well, what I thought I would talk about are idioms connected with relationships.
Okay, I've named it relationship idioms.
They're not all directly like that, but they're associated with it.
So as always, I'm going to give them to you one by one, then I'm going to go through them individually and I'll give you some working examples.
Some of them are positive and some of them are negative, and I'll mention which are which as we go through them.
So here's the your side of the story, the centre of attention, like cat and dog, set in her ways, like a house on fire, rub someone up the wrong way on the rocks, be at each other's throats, easy to tell which one that is, and have a soft spot for someone.
To have a soft spot for someone.
Okay, so there's the list, and as I said, I'll go through them with you and give you some examples.
We've called them relationship idioms, because in most cases they're to do with how we relate to people, how we get on with people, or on the negative, how we don't get on with people.
So let's take the first one, your side of the story.
Well, as we know, there are always two sides to every story, or two sides to each coin, but some people refer to it.
And when somebody says, well, I'd like to hear your side of the story, well, of course they have heard one side, they've got some information, but to make things equal or to introduce some equality, they want to listen or hear your side of the story.
And this is always something that I heard when I was a young lad, I'd done something, perhaps broken a window or had a fight with one of the local boys or kids, whatever it might be, and then you get a telling off, or as we used to call it, a ticking off from your parents, and they sat you down and said, okay, we'd like to hear your side of the story.
What did you do what happened, etc.
Etc.
Etcetera.