Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 547

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  Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,

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  where we try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language.

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  So this is advanced English.

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  It's advanced idioms about relationships.

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  I'm going to give you them one by one.

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  There's 12 of them in total on my list.

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  And for you to practice,

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  you should probably look at your own relationships that you've had in the past or those of your friends.

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  And you might be able to match those with the particular idioms that we're using.

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  The first one is to get off on the wrong foot.

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  I certainly got off on the wrong foot with my relationship with my beloved wife

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  because I decided to take her to a movie.

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  I thought she would love it.

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  She actually hated it.

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  And I think she was thinking, who is this guy?

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  Do I want to go out with him again?

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  So we got off or I got off on the wrong foot.

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  So when you get off on the wrong foot with somebody, you make a mistake,

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  you misjudge something, and then you wonder why the relationship didn't go any further.

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  So when we get off on the wrong foot, somebody on either side thinks,

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