2026-04-08
14 分钟Hi there, this is Harry.
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So what have we got in our lesson for you today?
Well, in our lesson today, the advanced English is about idioms and the idioms that we will use
or that we do use to describe a person or people.
OK, so advanced English and advanced English idioms used to describe a person.
I've got actually 18 of these.
So I'm going to go through them slowly and I'll give you examples when you can use them.
Number one, the scum of the earth.
Oh, it's a bad one, this, the scum of the earth.
So we use this expression or idiom when we're really talking nasty about somebody.
We really don't like them.
They're not a very pleasant person.
They are evil.