Hello and welcome to the English-like and native podcast.
My name is Anna and you're listening to Week 57 Day 2 of Your English Fiver Day.
Come here to get your healthy daily dose of English vocabulary so
that you can grow and start to feel more confident and like yourself when expressing yourself in English.
So let's begin with the phrasal verb to stand someone up, to stand someone up,
stand up, stand we spell S-T-A-N-D up U-P.
To stand someone up means that you fail to meet them at a scheduled time or place.
This is often used when you are planning to go on a date.
Or to meet someone socially.
You can also use it to describe someone not turning up to a meeting in a professional capacity but it's specifically when they don't attend and they also don't notify you so they don't tell you in advance that they're not going to be there.
So if I am due to have a meeting with a new teacher that I'm considering employing within my business and we arrange to meet in the morning at 10am for our meeting via Zoom.
I share the link we confirm we're going to meet at 10am and then I open up Zoom and I'm sitting there waiting at 10am waiting to do this interview and they don't turn up.
So I check my inbox,
have they sent me an email to let me know that they are running late or that they need to postpone for some reason?
No.
No email and no messages anywhere.
So I have just been stood up.
This phrase of herb is most commonly used for talking about dates and social arrangement, social engagements.
You must have had this at some point.
Maybe you haven't.