Hello and welcome to the English like a native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 58, Day 5 of Your English Fiver Day.
This is the series that gives you a healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so
that you can start to grow in confidence and feel more like yourself when communicating in English.
So let's begin today's session with an idiom and it is to crunch the numbers.
To crunch the numbers.
Crunch we spell C-R-U-N-C-H-Crunch-The-T-H-E-Numbers-N-U-M-B-E-R-S.
To crunch the numbers means to do maths.
To do mathematical work involving large amounts of information or numbers so
if you need to go and work through some data.
If you need to work out it's maybe what your budget is for a project so you need to know how much money is due to come in.
How much money are you likely to owe and what does that leave then you've got some work to do with the data.
You have to go and crunch the numbers so if someone says to you all right this project is going to start next quarter.
How much are we allowing in the budget for this particular project and you say to be honest I don't really know yet I need to go and crunch the numbers.
I can come back to you tomorrow with a clear figure.
Here's another example.
If you honestly feel you're ready to be a homeowner the next step is to crunch the numbers.
Yes if you live in the UK for a long period of time you may get into the spirit of being British and decide to buy your home in this country we are obsessed with buying houses we don't like to rent we prefer to buy and give ourselves decades worth of debt.
So if you want to be a homeowner you're going to have to crunch your numbers and work out what kind of mortgage you're going to be able to afford what kind of property are you going to be able to buy.
At the moment in this country it's very hard to get onto the property ladder properties are so expensive.