Hello and welcome to our series of episodes on idioms.
Maria and I have specially selected different idioms to talk about lots of different.
Areas in your life to bring up.
Your level of English to a high standard.
First of all, I'm gonna give an example, paraphrasing the idiom.
Rory will guess the idiom, and then we will give you the meaning, the origin and more examples.
I know what idioms we are going.
To be talking about, but I havent.
Seen the sentences and I have no idea what order they are going to be in.
So the company did everything well, and they paid all their workers during the lockdown.
The lockdown, remember?
So they didnt try to save money.
They paid everybody.
So they, I want to say they.
Went the extra mile because that sounds.
Like theyve done something good as well.
But the important bit is like they didn't want to cheat, they didn't want to save any money, they didn't want to do anything illegal.
So they did everything well, paid the workers during the lockdown.
Oh, they cut no corners.
I see.