Hello and welcome to the English like and native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to week three, day two of your English five a day, the second season.
This is a series that gives you a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so
that you can grow as an English speaker and start to feel more like yourself when communicating in English.
You don't need to make any notes while listening to this series because everything is recorded for you in a database.
So all of the target vocabulary is covered in our free database that you can access via the link in the show notes.
So today I'm going to give you a snapshot of what to expect.
During the meeting, sparks flew as the two colleagues argued over the project's direction.
In the heat of the moment, a sarcastic remark slipped out, leaving one of them glaring and contempt.
Later, their manager had to chase up both of them for updates,
only to realize the argument had left the team in a predicament struggling to move forward with the work.
Now if that snapshot left you scratching your head in confusion, don't worry, we're about to clear everything up.
So here's our target vocabulary.
We begin with the idiom, sparks fly.
Sparks fly.
Sparks we spell s-p-a-r-k-s fly-f-l-y.
Sparks fly is used to say that two people are having an argument with each other or it's used to say
that two people are sexually attracted to each other.
So it's definitely about passion.
It's just context will determine whether it's positive, sparks flying in a sexual attraction way,