we gonna to dive into this Oh cheeky yeah so we saw a couple of divers
a second ago diving off the rocks they were to avoid the rocky situation yeah a
rocky situation yeah and they were a couple as well but I imagine their
relationship wasn't on the rocks no maybe not so we thought we'd
take some time to give you some dive related phrases just before we get
started we'd like to give a shout out to our patreon supporters who helped us
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to this episode of idioms in Italy take it away Harry well we have to dive
in at the deep end ooh yeah okay give me an example Harry so when I was
working at matrix which is this company that I worked for the job was in sales and I had
to make presentations and I wasn't really prepared for this job but I dived
in at the deep end straightaway and that I had to give a presentation to some
quite important members of staff oh so I dived in at the deep end oh okay that means to
be taken into a new situation and into the place that's going to test you the most
yeah exactly but it's a way of accustoming yourself to these difficult
situations yeah like languages people say you need to dive in the deep end and
immerse yourself totally in the language vis-à-vis come on our English
immersion course yeah so even if you feel like you're not ready for something yeah
you need to dive in at the deep end in order to build confidence yeah and stuff like that quickly yeah
what other synonymous expressions could we say instead of to dive in at the deep
end we could say to dive into something you don't need to say into the deep end
anything else so you say Harry really dove in headfirst
and gave that awful presentation yeah and you can also say it without to dive
you could say he went into that headfirst
yeah so another phrase associated to those would be to jump into something
wouldn't it yeah yeah and it's just the same right yeah
yes you could say he jumped in headfirst he jumped in at the deep end yeah
if we went to a bar and we didn't
like it we could say this place is a dive it's a dive and in America
in America they have actual bars called dive bars really and that's not a
bar for people who dive no no
can we think of anything else related to diving
I think we can what could you say if if you were a boxer okay and someone paid you
money to lose the fight deliberately okay what would you say
to take a dive yeah to take a dive for someone
yeah so in a fight if you deliberately lose the game for your own
personal gain yeah gain not game then you are
taking a dive or for something for money for something yeah for example if
Charlie was a boxer and he deliberately lost the fight then I could say
Charlie took a dive for a fiver (£5) for a fiver is that it is that all I'm worth how much would you
remember we used to box we use to box baby big time until I realised he could probably
knock me out yeah triceps you nearly you nearly did yeah we did used to thump each other
I got a bit dazed yeah you never took a dive though did you
and you said another one to duck and dive to quickly move from one position to another
yeah to dodge to dodge to dodge
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