2020-05-27
12 分钟Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome back to my podcast where I try to help you to understand and use English in a better way.
This is for your business English, and also for your personal English.
When you're going on holidays, meeting friends, talking to colleagues, or anybody that you have happen to meet whose only English or first language is English.
So we do this by using some grammar, idioms, phrasal verbs and other types of expressions, and hopefully we do it in a fun and enjoyable way that you can learn it in a convivial and friendly atmosphere.
So what do I have for you in this particular podcast?
Well, in this particular podcast we're going to look again at some co locations, and this time the collocations are with the word mind, m I n d mind.
Okay, so I'll give you the list of them, first of all, and then I'll give you an example of each of them.
Slip my mind, cross my mind, make up your mind, keep it in mind, into minds.
Give someone a piece of your mind, have something on your mind, and finally change your mind.
Okay, so how do we use them and what do they mean?
So the first one slip my mind.
Well, when something slips your mind, it means you forget about it, or you have forgotten about it, or you just cannot remember.
So you come back home and your partner asks you, did you get the milk and the bread and cheese supper?
Oh, it completely slipped my mind.
I was busy today and I knew there was something I was supposed to get, but it just slipped my mind.
So I'm sorry.
So you forget about something?
It's not that you deliberately did it, it slipped your mind because you just were busy and had something else that preoccupied you.
So to slip my mind, it can be usually anything that somebody asks us to do or to collect.
So did you collect the dry cleaning?