Hello and welcome to the English like-and-a-native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 59 Day 2 of Your English Fiver Day.
This is the series that gives you a healthy,
daily dose of English vocabulary so
that you can feel more confident and more like yourself when communicating in English.
So let's begin today's episode with the idiom go nowhere.
Or you may hear another version to get nowhere.
So go geo or get g-e-t nowhere n-o-w-h-e-r-e to go nowhere or to get nowhere.
This means to not make any progress or achieve anything.
So if you are trying to grow a social media following,
but after six months of posting consistently you only have three followers, you could say my venture is going nowhere.
Or if you're trying to fix a car,
an old banger that's been in your garage for years and now it's time to get it back on the road.
Well, all those years have led to the car rusting quite a lot and you work endlessly to get this car functioning again.
But it just doesn't work out and you can say, I'm going to keep trying.
I will, I will get this car moving.
But your partner who's fed up now, who wants their partner back,
who wants their garage space back will look at you and say, look, this project is going nowhere.
This car is literally going nowhere.
So I think it's time to get it towed and get it down to the scrap yard and sell it for scrap.