2020-03-25
7 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome back to the podcast where we try to help you to improve your english language, either for business purposes or for your personal pleasure when you're traveling abroad, on holidays, or whatever you're doing.
Okay, so hopefully this will give you some insight into the use of certain expressions or idioms.
And in this particular podcast, we have a continuation of podcasts connected to the word sales.
S a l e s, where we're using some co locations.
Okay, so let's get started.
I think I have six, another six or seven to give you, and I'll give you examples, as I always do.
So the first collocation is sales fall or sales drop down.
Well, of course, nobody likes to see this, but these are both negative connotations.
Sales fall in periods of poor economic activity.
Sales fell last year, sales fell last month.
So we just changed the verb tense.
Sales continue to fall throughout the year, throughout the quarter, sales drop down as a result of bad weather.
Okay, so better to say sales fall, sales drop down.
Well, it has the same meaning, but more appropriate in an economic perspective to use sales fall.
Sales fall on the back of bad data coming out of America.
The opposite of fall is to rise.
And we've got here sails soar.
Soar?
To soar means to go like a rocket up into the sky, okay, to birds soar when the the sky is blue and the the air is warm.