Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 564

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  Hi there, this is Harry.

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  Welcome back to Advanced English Lessons with Harry,

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  where I try to help you to get a better understanding of the English language,

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  to help you with your conversational skills, your business English skills,

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  interview skills, whatever your goals are, we're here to help.

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  And for those of you and your friends or family who want one-to-one lessons well you know what to do just get in touch www.englishlessonviaskype.com and you can apply for a free trial lesson and we'd be very happy to hear from you and very happy to help you.

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  So we're going to talk to you a bit about idioms today and these are about idioms connected with music.

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  Okay so I'm going to go through them and I'll give you some examples.

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  So the first one to blow your own trumpet so when we use the to blow your own trumpet It means that you are telling people how good you are how good you can do something

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  because other people Apparently are not yeah,

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  so if you're waiting for somebody to say oh, Harry.

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  He's great at that Oh,

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  he says he did such a good job at this or you should really use Harry so

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  if you're waiting for somebody to blow your trumpet but they don't so you have to do it yourself so we often say oh look I did a really good job on that presentation last week oh you should have tasted that paella I cooked two weeks ago oh you should really seen the the decoration i've done in my room it looks really exquisite and somebody says wow you're blowing your own trumpet and you say well

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  if i don't blow my own trumpet nobody else is going to do it so i have to get out there and do a little bit of boasting myself about how good i did things

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  because yeah i'm very proud of it so

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  if you're proud of it and nobody else is going to blow your own your trumpet then you have to get up there get out there and blow your own trumpet okay next Idiom is for a song,

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  for a song.

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  And when we use this, it's usually to do with price, okay?

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  And to write a song is usually very easy and certainly cheap and lots of people who have written songs in the past didn't know how valuable they might be.

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