2025-07-09
15 分钟Hi there,
this is Harry and welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry where we tried to help you to get a better understanding of the English language.
Everything from practicing for those proficiency exams, to pronunciation,
phrasal verbs, whatever it takes we're here to help you.
And in today's Advanced English Lesson we're looking at advanced Idioms.
So idioms about transport and these will help you to improve your vocabulary at the same time as get you and help you to be a little bit more fluent.
Okay number one to fall off the back of a lorry or a truck.
Well we use this expression when somebody offers us a really really good deal on something that's usually quite expensive and when we ask them where did you get it from they say Don't ask it fell off the back of a lorry.
It really means that it was stolen or if not stolen,
he got it somewhere that perhaps he shouldn't have got it from.
So he's offering you a really good deal on a mobile phone brand new.
It's yours for 300 euro.
If anybody asked you, it fell off the back of a lorry or fell off off the back of a truck.
number two to throw someone under the bus well we don't mean this literally of course but when we say that ah he was thrown under the bus it means that he's going to take responsibility for something perhaps it wasn't his fault in government Yeah the government are in trouble with the country the voters
because something has happened so the prime minister or the head of the government is really worried so what he does he blames one of his ministers the ministers forced to resign but everybody in the public knows it really it wasn't the ministers fault.
but the Prime Minister is throwing him under the bus.
So somebody has to get thrown under the bus when there's a mistake.
Usually the weakest person gets thrown under the bus.
I really feel sorry for him, that manager, that team, the directors just threw him under the bus.
It's not his fault the team weren't scoring goals.