Welcome to the A to Z English podcast.
My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host, social.
And today we're doing three marine-based idioms that has to have to do with the sea.
And social, our first one is at the helm.
And what does it mean to be at the helm?
At the helm speaks about like when you're captain of the ship, right?
And you're like, it drags things.
Our students would be pleased to know I actually didn't.
I had no kind of idea.
I was flailing here when Jack asked me the first time, so we had to redo it.
That's because I'm using my old boomer idioms that I learned from my grandfather.
Yeah, but actually I think that this idiom comes up in literary work often.
Yeah, exactly.
So it's an important one.
So if someone's at the helm, it just means they're leading the project.
So if you have like a group project or something and John is at the helm, he's basically the captain of the ship.
He's steering that big giant, I don't even know what you call that thing.
Is it called the helm?
Maybe the big ship steering wheel?
The big wheel?