2021-04-11
14 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 you can enjoy it, you can use it, and you can practice it.
So we talk about idioms and phrasal verbs, show you the best way to use the grammar to correct those grammar mistakes, improve vocabulary and also pronunciation.
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So what am I going to talk to you about today?
Well, we're going to look at things connected with animals, okay?
And so we're going to look at idioms, animal idioms.
So I've got ten or eleven of those, I'll give them to you and then I'll give you an example, and hopefully you'll be able to understand how and where to use them.
So here they are, teaching an old dog new tricks.
Big fish in a small pond, a fly on the wall, there's more fish in the sea barking up the wrong tree.
The cat that got the cream, empty nest, loan shark, top dog, ruffle feathers, and I'm going to throw in another one there.
The elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room.
Okay, so let me take them one at a time.
So first, teaching an old dog new tricks.
Well, often we use this in the negative and we say, you cannot teach, teach an old dog new tricks, meaning that when somebody is set in their ways and when somebody has been doing the same thing year in, year out, it's very hard to get them to change, to do something different.
So we can't teach an old dog new tricks.
That's what they tell me.
I'm the old dog and they don't think I can learn new tricks.
But, aha.