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, you know, articles in English.
Oh, articles.
Using articles in English is very difficult.
So, Rory, you know a lot about articles and how to use them in English, so I want to ask you about how to use articles in ielts.
Essays.
So I want to.
Oh, do you want to pick my brain?
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
I want to pick your brain about how to use articles in essays, how to use the e, you know, a story.
The story.
So to pick someone's brain, or can I say pick someone's brains?
Ah, well, I would always say to pick someone's brain, but I think using brains is an american thing, so it might be this also, but I would not say that.
Interesting, because in the states, they say, pick someone's brain, and in the UK, they say, pick someone's brains.