2021-06-06
15 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to another podcast where I try to give you a little bit of help in relation to your english learning, particularly to do with conversational English, business English.
The use of idioms, expressions, phrasal, verbs, correct any little parts of grammar that you might have problems with, and also from time to time, pronunciation.
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Okay, so what are we going to talk to you about now?
Well, in this particular podcast, we're going to take a little bit of a look at technology, and we're going to use some idioms that are closely associated with technology.
So let me again give them to you one by one, and then I'll go through them with you and hopefully give you some examples to understand how to use them and what they mean.
To pull the plug, to blow a fuse, to get your wires crossed, nuts and bolts to be on the same wavelength, wheels within wheels, bells and whistles, right on the button, cutting edge.
Make someone or something tick.
T I c k, not t h I c k.
Make them tick.
Okay, so let's go through them one by one, first to pull the plug.
Well, when you take a plug out of the wall, or as we call it, out of the socket in the wall, whatever it is stops working.
So if I unplug my laptop or I unplug the printer, the light will go off and it will no longer work.
So when we pull the plug on something, we stop it dead.
We stop it instantly.
So if some business is not doing so well, the owners of the business decide to pull the plug, it's too late.
This is never going to work.
We're never going to get the customers back after this pandemic problem.
So we'd be better off pulling the plug now.