Short English Idioms Native Speakers Use in Everyday Conversation [586]

日常对话中母语人士常用的英语习语 [586]

Speak Better English with Harry

2026-05-06

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🚨Improve your English with structured online lessons. Book a free trial and get clear feedback on your level, pronunciation and speaking. Book here ➡️  https://www.englishlessonviaskype.com/trial In this episode, you’ll learn short two-word expressions that native speakers use to describe situations, people, moods, and everyday experiences. These phrases may look simple, but their real meaning is often not obvious from the individual words. This lesson will help you understand expressions like these when you hear them in conversations, films, podcasts, and workplace discussions. You’ll also learn how to use them correctly, so your English sounds less translated and more natural. After listening, you’ll be able to: • understand common short idioms more easily  • use natural expressions in the right context  • avoid translating word for word  • make your spoken English sound more fluent and confident If you want to understand real English better and add more natural phrases to your speaking, this episode will help. Share Your Thoughts If you often hesitate, make mistakes, or feel unsure when speaking English, book a trial lesson. We assess your level, correct you clearly, and give you a focused plan so you know exactly what to improve.  Book a free trial here: https://www.englishlessonviaskype.com/trial If you prefer to study on your own, explore our online courses. They give you structured lessons to build stronger grammar, clearer pronunciation, and more confident speaking step by step Discover all courses and guides: https://englishlessonviaskype.com/confidence
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  • Hi there, this is Harry.

  • Welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,

  • where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language,

  • to help you with your conversational skills,

  • your business English skills, interview skills, whatever your goals are, we 're here to help.

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  • Get in touch www. englishlessonviaskype. com and you can apply for a free trial lesson.

  • And we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you.

  • Okay, so what are we going to talk about today?

  • Well, in particular, we're going to talk about.

  • Expressions and idioms with two words.

  • So two word idioms or English idioms with two words, whichever way you wish to look at it.

  • I've got 11 of them.

  • So I'm going to give them to you one by one, and then I'm going to give you a few examples.

  • So let's start.

  • First one, fuddy duddy.

  • And I'll stress in terms of the pronunciation where it's important.

  • Fuddy duddy.

  • Topsy turvy.

  • Topsy turvy.