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50 intermediate phrases are going to help you to improve your English

speaking and your comprehension!

<Giving advice>

It might be a good idea to + V

It might be a good idea to turn the oven off
It might be a good idea to use a pencil instead of a pen just in case you
make a mistake.

(정중한 표현 This sounds really quite polite and it's telling somebody
what you would do)

If I were you I would + V

If I were you I would turn the oven off
If I were you I would use a pencil instead of a pen just in case you make a
mistake

<Asking for attention>

You could use these in the office or at home.

Can you spare a moment?

Are you free? Can you spare a moment?

Could you cast your eye over this for me?

(All about asking someone to check your work for any mistakes just to
make sure it reads well perhaps.
Sometimes if I'm sending an important email or writing a post that I'm
not sure about I might ask someone to cast their eye over it for me. So
could you cast your eyes over this for me

<Asking for opinions>

** I am asking you about your opinion on something.

Where do you stand on …?

Where do you stand on the Trump administration?
= What's your general opinion about the Trump administration?

What would you say if I told you…?

What would you say if I told you that the UK we're going to leave the EU?
What would you say if I told you I was going to quit YouTube?
(something that's not widely known or something you are considering)

<Giving approval/encouragement>
You're on the right lines
You're going in the right direction
You have the right thoughts about something
You have the right idea

Give it your best shot

You can do it just try your best

<Optimism>
You never know it/you/I might …

You never know it might happen.

(if someone is depressed that something isn't happening)
You never know you might win so.
(you are debating whether or not you should play the lottery)
You never know I might have a surprise for you.
You never know I might come back from my shopping trip with a little
treat for you.

Look on the bright side

Find the positive in a negative situation
Every cloud has Silver Lining every cloud has a silver lining
The cloud represents the negative situation and the little silver lining
around it is obviously the Sun behind the cloud

There is one silver lining.

Well, there’s one silver lining. I get to spend a lot of time with my partner
because he can't work in the office and he has to work from home.

<Blocking>
Mind your own business
(Somebody perhaps they're asking you questions that you just don't want
to answer maybe they're too personal or too intrusive 거슬리는 you
could say to them)
I was told this a lot when I was a child I was very nosy as a child very
inquisitive(꼬치꼬치 캐묻는, 호기심이 많은). I was always asking
questions and the grown-ups would constantly say to me mind your own
business

Never you mind

Look after your own business, Don't worry about my business

I'm not at liberty to say (very formal)

I would expect the representative of a company to say

If someone is making a speech about a company's decisions or plan of
action and then someone asks a question that they can't answer because
they're not allowed to.

< Disagreeing>
Never in a million years

Let's put it into context if I ask you to do something that you really don't
want to do and won't ever do so.
If I say to you “Would you ever consider speaking to your dad who you
fell out with five years ago. Would you ever consider reconnecting
reaching out to him making amends?”
I might say “Never in a million years!” = Absolutely not

Over my dead body (very informal)

(It absolutely will not happen I will have to die first and you'll have to
step over my dead body for that to happen)

In your dreams
(It might be something you dream but it's not going to happen. It will
only happen in your dreams not in real life)

<Cheering>
It's not the end of the world
It’s not that bad
(If someone's feeling quite down you might say to them it's not the end
of the world
**but actually when thinking about it you're you're belittling their
problem if they're upset about something you're saying come on it's not
that bad. It's not like the end of the world but it is meant to be a bit more
comforting than that)
Lighten up
(If they are being too serious or being too negative )
Come on lighten up! They'll be a fine!
- Lighten up but lighten up can also be seen as a little bit abrasive
(거친, 마음에 걸리는) a bit some offensive. = you've been too
serious lighten up come on
- so sometimes it can feel like they're not very caring about your
woes (고민)
time is a great healer (very comforting)

(We talked about things being very painful when we're experiencing
emotion but that pain, that hurt, can heal with time and so we talked
about time being a great healer if someone is really upset
Give it time, time is a great healer
= You will feel better in time and if someone that's particularly upset
because of the loss of a love in their life so I'm talking about a
relationship
breaking down maybe they've been dumped or maybe their partners run
off with somebody else then you could say to them

There are plenty more fish in the sea

= There are other nice people that they will one day be very happy with

<Asking about progress>

How are you getting on?
= I'm just asking how is the project going
- Oh! it's all going well thank you and you could say how is

How's it going?
Cf) How are you
If you just bump into someone hey how's it going
they're working on something and that you've previously discussed and
you go away and you come back you might say how's it going while
they're working on it and that would mean how is the project progressing
or how is your work going

How's it going - I'll say yes sir, it's going quite slowly actually. Stop
disturbing me go away!

<Asking for approval>

Would you mind if…

Do you think anyone would mind if… this happens

Would you mind if I play my music to practice my dance?

Do you think anyone would mind if I play my music to practice my
dance?

[Just politely saying]

Is it okay for me to play music here in this area will it disturb you?

<Asking for advice>

Do you reckon I ought to…
[This is it's not so much asking for approval, actually more asking for
advice] - so maybe I've labeled this one wrong

Do you reckon = Do you think

Do you reckon I ought to say sorry to my partner for being rude earlier?
Should I let him come to me or should I go?
Tim do you reckon I ought to go to him firs?

<Asking for information>

I don't suppose you know…, do you?

I don't suppose you know what time the train arrives, do you?
( I'm making it here a question tag 물음표를 붙입니다)
I don't suppose you know how to get to the library, do you?
I don't suppose you know if there's anything to do with a toddler in this
area, do you?

You don't happen to know… do you?

You don't happen to know if there's anything interesting to do in this

area do you?

<Delaying >
I'm a bit tied up at the moment
I'm busy doing other things
I'm a bit tied up at the moment ask me later
Give me a chance or you can take the A away

( the door you've had a busy day shopping you've got groceries and all
sorts of supplies and you've got loads of heavy shopping bags. You've got
to get in and make lunch for the family and you've got so much to do and
you're
feeling all sweaty and flustered (허둥지둥하는) and as soon as you walk
in the door )
Can you just take a phone call and tell the gas man all about the problem
with the boiler?--- Okay give me a chance, I've just walked in. I've got to
make lunch. I've got to put the shopping away. Give me a chance!

I'm up to my neck
I'm up to my neck and work
I'm up to my neck in bills.
I'm up to my neck in debt
= you have so much of it
I'm up to my neck in work
I love to help you but I'm up to my neck in work at the moment

I've got my hands full

I've got my hands full at the moment with my son and my work and
everything else that I have to do.

<Dismay>
What on earth did you do that for?
충격 실망 경악
( if something goes wrong , someone's done something that you don't
agree with)
Why did you do that but showing that you're really unhappy about it

What were you thinking?

(someone comes out of their house wearing something really

inappropriate for the weather or for the event that they're attending you
could just look at them and say)
What were you thinking when you got dressed this morning?
Why are you wearing that

You've put your foot in it now

You've put your foot in it
I've put my foot in it
I just put my foot in it so
(to say something that creates problems means that you've put your foot
in it)

Somebody that that was uncalled for if someone does something that you
think is bad and unnecessary

That was uncalled for

= That wasn't fair
= That wasn't needed
(perhaps I say something quite horrible to somebody in the middle of an
argument something that's really personal and upsetting to them and
they burst into tears and walk out of the room. Someone we should turn
to me and say That was uncalled for / That wasn't nice / That was
unfair

<Lucky>

Thank your lucky stars that….

That was close / That was a close call

(If you narrowly avoided disaster)
(Something very physical like you're about to step out onto the road and
then someone grabs you and pulls you back because a bus drives but
passed very fast and you nearly stepped out in front of the bus)

(Arriving just on time for a lesson or just on time to get onto a train
that's about to leave and you have to be on that particular train - Oh that
was a close call we nearly missed it it was nearly a

It's just as well that!

It’s just as well that something did happen.
It's just as well that your mother didn't come today because actually
we've just had a burst pipe and there's a water leak in the house and the
house is a mess and we have no heating now so it's just as well that
= it's good that something did or didn't happen

You were at home when the lockdown was started - it's just as well that

Fortunately for you/us/me…

Fortunately for you this did happen
Fortunately for me I'm able to continue working at home
Fortunately for my son he has his mum and dad at home

<Relief >
That must be a weight off your mind
If someone's talking about a problem being resolved - That must be a
weight off your mind saying that must relieve you from that
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pressure that worry that you were carrying if you say about yourself it
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was a huge weight off my mind it means I'm no longer worrying about
that particular thing it's a weight off
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my mind some people talk about weight on their shoulders in the same
way it must be a big weight off your shoulders or a
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weight off your back even that's a big weight off my back so any idea at
any thought of carrying
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the weight of worry so weight on your mind weight on your shoulders
weight on
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your back okay you could also say oh that's one less thing to worry about
yeah maybe if you
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are organizing a trip and you are told
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that someone else is going to take care of the catering or someone else
will take care of the travel organising then
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you say oh well that's one less thing for me to worry about that's one less
thing for us to worry about or you could
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simply use the phrase thank God for that thank God for that but if you
feel uncomfortable using the
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word God that you could say thank goodness thank goodness for that
thank
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goodness for that okay the next phrases are all about saying sorry now of
course you can just
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say I'm sorry but there are other ways to say it too you could say please
excuse my ignorance I didn't realize
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that so this is something you'd say if you have said something that's
incorrect
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to somebody who is now offended by your ignorance perhaps we're
talking about
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culture or people from different countries and you make an assumption
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about somebody from another country and say oh everyone from this
country does this or everyone in that country likes
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this you make a statement that's false and actually a little bit insensitive
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and that person then corrects you you'd go oh please excuse my
ignorance I
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didn't realize please excuse my ignorance I didn't realize so that is how
you would apologize in a nice way
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you could also say I'm sorry how thoughtless of me how thoughtless of
me
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like this morning I made myself a cup of tea and I didn't make my
partner a cup of tea and when he came down he's like
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hey where's my cup of tea our house I'm sorry how thoughtless of me I
didn't
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even think so I was thoughtless at that moment I didn't think I'm sorry
all
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right the next phrases are all about waiting we all have to wait sometimes
whether
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it's for the bus or for a letter to arrive or for your food to cook in the
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oven but you might say we'll have to wait and see we'll have to wait and
see
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now this can be used in two ways you can either use it to tell someone
that we
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just won't know until time passes so if they say mummy when when will
we go back
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to school and at the moment that's uncertain so I might say we'll have to
wait and see I don't know yet time will
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tell that's another one time will tell we'll have to wait and see but have to
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wait and see can also be used if you know something but you're making
someone
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else wait to know the answer for example if you've bought someone a
present for Christmas and they're really impatient
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and they're asking you did you buy me a bike for Christmas did you buy
me a bike for Christmas did you did you buy me a
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bike did you buy me a bike you'll have to wait and see you'll have to wait
and
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see okay you can also use the phrase time waits for no man
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time waits for no man and this just basically means that time will
continue
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to tick and no one can stop time not one person time waits for no man
you could
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say I can't wait for something to happen now this is actually a positive
thing
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but in most cases and usually it's used if you're very excited about
something I can't wait
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until my birthday or I can't wait for the weekend because this is
happening yeah so I can't wait usually used in a
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positive way unless you're perhaps deciding to do something drastic and
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someone says no don't do that I can't wait I have to do it yeah but usually
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it's used in a positive situation you might say I keep putting something
off
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so often we have things in our life that we don't want to do whether it's
chores
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around the house or dealing with bills or doing our tax returns or
something
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there's something usually that we don't want to do and so we might put it
off to
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put something off in this context means to delay it and so you might say
to
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someone I have to do this today I keep putting it off but it needs to
happen
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today otherwise I will get into trouble if I don't do my taxes now the
government will will find me and tell me
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off so I keep putting it off I must do it you'll also be aware that people use
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the phrase sooner or later quite often sooner or later and it just means
that
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at some point something is going to happen we don't know when it might
happen soon it might happen later but
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either way it is going to happen sooner or later you'll need to eat sooner
or
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later you'll need to sleep sooner or later everything will go back to
normal okay all right so the next phrase is all
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about being worried so you can't just say I'm stressed I'm worried I'm
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concerned but there are a couple of phrases that are a little bit more
advanced and the first one is I'm beside
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myself and this meets all very worried I'm beside myself it's almost like
your
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soul is not in your body and it's next to you because it's so worried I'm
beside myself
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with worry I'm beside myself this I would hold this back for very very
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serious situations perhaps if your pet dog goes missing and you're really
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worried okay so I'm beside myself means that you're incredibly worried
about something you could also say if you're
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stressed about something that's coming up that hasn't happened yet you
could say I'm dreading it or I'm absolutely
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dreading it perhaps it's an exam that you are not very confident about or
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maybe you have to go to have a procedure a medical procedure and
you're worried
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about the pain or the recovery process perhaps you have to go and fire
somebody
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and you know it's going to be an awful experience you'd say I'm dreading
it I'm
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absolutely dreading it I'm really not looking forward to it's going to be
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awful and on that very negative note I can't believe every ended with that
one
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