Idioms A to Z 002: Idioms with verbs 2

In this episode, Jack discusses five common English idioms and describes their meanings. https://atozenglishpodcast.com/idioms-2/ Share your answers to the discussion questions in our WhatsApp group chat! https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7 If you could take a minute and complete a short survey about the podcast, we would be very appreciative. You can find the survey here: https://forms.gle/HHNnnqU6U8W3DodK8 We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes. Intro/Outro Music by Eaters: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/the-astronomers-office/agents-in-coffee-shops/ Listen to the episode and write the definitions of the idioms. Sit tight: Pitch in: Go cold turkey: Face the music: Ring a bell: Discussion Questions: How do you feel when someone tells you to sit tight? Have you ever worked on a group project and one person did not pitch in? Have you ever gone cold turkey on something: cigarettes, alcohol, sugar, etc.? What did you go cold turkey on? How did you feel? Have you ever had to face the music for something you did wrong? Idioms A to Z 2: Idioms with verbs 2   Full Transcript: https://atozenglishpodcast.com/idioms-2/ Jack: Hey everybody! Welcome to the A to Z English Podcast. We have another special episode for you today. We are going to look at another five idioms and I will explain the meanings of the idioms and I’ll even use some examples in sentences so let's go ahead and get started. Uh the very first one that we have is sit tight and what does that mean the expression or the idiom sit tight sit tight. Everybody knows sit me and sit like sit down um and you know what the adjective tight is right. Um if a shirt is too tight it's too small right but what does that mean together sit tight sit tight well we use this expression when we want somebody to wait and we want them to wait patiently. Don't be over excited. Just relax sit down and relax or you can just say just sit tight just wait sit tight um. For example if there are a line of people waiting for help okay and so uh somebody needs help you have the person helping those people they have to help the first person first and the second person and then the third person but if somebody in the back of the line like number five in the line uh tries to you know I need help right now please help me right now uh. Sorry sir uh please sit tight. I have to help these four people first and then I will help you so you're asking that person to please relax please wait patiently or just say to them sit tight. I will help you as soon as possible sit tight just wait patiently so there you go that's our first idiom is to sit tight and I would say this is a pretty common expression and it's not necessarily rude. Um it's not exactly polite either but it's something that you can definitely say to somebody when they're not being patient and they're not waiting patiently you just say excuse me please just sit tight and I will I will be with you as soon as I can okay so sit tight. Um number two our second idiom is pitch in so to pitch in what does that mean to pitch in pitch in. Pitch in um pitch in is just another expression or another way to say help you know um if you are it's kind of like not just helping someone but helping a group okay so let's imagine that you have a group project at school and you have to divide the workload into let's say you have five people in the group so every person should do about 20% of the work right and another way we could say that is everybody should pitch in by if you say pitch in means they should help they should do their share of the work and sometimes we use this expression. If everybody would pitch in we can finish this job very quickly so let's say you have some kind of like cleaning the house if one person cleans the whole house it takes a long time but if the whole family pitches in, if everybody pitches in then you can clean the house much more quickly and it's much easier much faster better fo