2021-02-24
20 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 to improve your conversational english business English.
And we'll look at grammar, phrasal verbs and other expressions.
And today we're going to look at some particular expressions and phrases that you might like to use.
As always, if you have somebody who you think might enjoy this, well, pass them on the details and they are very welcome to join.
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Okay, so quite a few people are complaining that I talk too much.
So I'll try to lessen what I say and give you more examples, and hopefully that will help everybody.
Okay, so let's see what we're going to do then.
This week in this particular podcast, we're going to talk about phrases and expressions where you want to avoid giving a direct answer.
It's very good for politicians.
They love avoiding a direct answer.
And other people try to avoid giving a direct answer when they don't have the information and they really want to, as we say, play for a bit of time, or as we say in English, to kick for touch.
Kick for touch comes from a football expression.
When the ball goes over the, the goal line, or the touch line, as it's sometimes called, it goes out of play and you waste a bit of time.
So to kick for touch means to waste some time and give yourself the opportunity to come back with a more detailed answer.
Okay, so the expressions we're going to use are, I'll have to get back to you on that, or I'll have to get back to you about that.
You can use either preposition, I cannot give you an answer right now.
I'd rather not say.
I'm not in a position to answer that.
I'll have to think about it.