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To keep the wolf from the door = to eat just enough food to prevent hunger.To be a dead ringer (for someone) = to look exactly like someone else.To get the wrong end of the stick = to misunderstand the situation.To pull the rug from under you / to pull the rug from someone’s feet = to suddenly take away help or support from someone, or to suddenly do something that causes many problems for them.The conversation continues… Luke & Andy’s Idioms Game – The Results Ones Andy thought Luke had pre-planned: (actually, none of them were pre-planned) You can find the link on the page for this episode with all the other notes and stuff, or in the episode archive. With Andy & Ben from The London School of English (Part 2) By the way, for more information about Andy’s talk on millennials and to find out what millennials are (if you don’t know) let me recommend that you listen to episode 424 in which I spoke to Andy and his colleague Ben about it in more detail.Ĥ24. In terms of the topics in the conversation, in this one you’ll hear us cover Andy’s experience of being abused or angrily criticised on Twitter, my experiences of facing audiences as a stand up comedian, how there is another Andy Johnson in London who also looks a little bit like Moby and who used to play football for England, Andy’s training for the upcoming London Marathon and then the results of the idioms game – with our comments about the idioms we noticed (or didn’t notice).Īnd as I said, I’ll also be explaining all the idioms and more vocabulary at the end of the conversation in the final part of this episode, so keep listening for some clarification of things you might not have understood or noticed.īut now, let’s carry on with the conversation and hear about Andy’s experience of facing criticism on Twitter because of a misunderstanding about his presentation about Millennials in the workplace.

There’s also plenty more nice, useful vocabulary that you might not know coming up, so listen carefully – there’s a lot to learn from this episode. 5 of them were written down by us in advance and slipped into the conversation as part of the game, the others just happened naturally. So, listen carefully to the rest of our conversation and try to spot expressions which you think might be the idioms I’ll be defining later.

Having checked part 2, I can tell you that there are about 18 idioms in total. So that means that in this episode there are still 5 more pre-prepared idioms left. All the others just came up on the spur of the moment. Only 1 of those idioms was prepared in advance.

to call someone out for doing somethingĪgain, I explained all of those at the end of part 1.

to shine a spotlight on something/someone.

to do something on the spur of the moment.

I explained them all at the end.ĭo you remember them all? Here’s a quick reminder. In part 1 I went through a lot of them – there were about 25 idioms in the first part. The challenge is that we both, at the end of the conversation, have to try and identify which expressions the other one had prepared in advance.ĭuring the whole conversation lots of idioms just came up naturally. Just to slip them in completely naturally. Then during the conversation we had to try and insert the idioms naturally, without drawing too much attention to them. By prepare I mean to just think of 3 idioms, or flick through an idioms dictionary and pick 3 that you quite like. The rules of the game are that before having the conversation Andy & I had to prepare 3 idioms each. In fact we’re playing a sort of idioms game. The language focus in this double episode is on idiomatic expressions. In this episode you can continue to listen to a conversation I recorded with Andy Johnson just the other day. Transcripts and vocabulary definitions below. Topics include: Twitter abuse, the other Andy Johnson, training for the London Marathon + more. Listen out for 18 more idioms which will be explained later. The second part of my chat with Andy Johnson.