Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 173

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  Hi there.

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  This is Harry, and welcome to the podcast where I try to help you understand a little better the use of the english language by helping you and explaining expressions, idioms, grammar, and other aspects that I think will be helpful for you to improve your business and your spoken conversational English.

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  So, what do I have for you now?

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  Well, in this particular podcast, we're going to split it into two parts.

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  So the next two podcasts, we're going to look at idioms connected with color.

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  Okay, so different colors.

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  So English idioms dealing with color.

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  So I'll give you the idiom, and then I'll give you an example.

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  Okay, so, first, black market.

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  So when we get something on the black market, so use the preposition on the black market, it's usually something we get a little bit illegal and probably cheaper, although maybe not cheaper than we would get it in the shop.

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  Or in fact, when we buy it, we might not be able to get it in the shop at all.

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  And therefore, we have to pay a lot of money because it's illegal.

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  And when we go to somebody who sells it on the black market, we have to be careful who we tell and how we buy it.

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  So, you know, if somebody goes out and they buy the latest copy of some movie that was produced and it hasn't been released yet, and somebody says, where did you get that?

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  I said, oh, I got it on the black market.

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  Some guy burned a copy of me, said, but that's illegal.

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  Ah, it's okay, I paid a good price.

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  Nobody will know, and the movie's really good.

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  So to get something on the black market, a blackleg.

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  Blackleg is usually somebody who nobody likes because they are perhaps breaking the rules of a strike.

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