hey michelle how's it going today how you doing hey lindsay i'm good how are you good i'm happy
to be on youtube with you we are on youtube guys this podcast is being recorded both by audio and
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join our channel that is right that is right so lindsay a couple of weeks ago on episode 1788 we
did a really fun kind of unique episode about this structure we were calling x2x where we did like
wall-to-wall carpeting bumper-to-bumper different things like that and i mentioned that there would
be a part two here we are episode 1801 we're at part two we promised our listener something and we
are delivering we always deliver yeah but before we get into part two michelle i just want to make
sure our listeners know where they can take their fluency quiz so guys go over to all this english
dot com slash fluency score to take your fluency quiz okay all right michelle so so we're getting
into body parts and extending this idea of x to x guys go back and listen to that old episode
if you missed it right definitely definitely so this one is specifically that one was you know
many different things and this one i i realized that there was a theme of the body parts and we
may have done a couple of these you know just in passing on the show before but i wanted to
really focus on this pattern that i picked up on with these idioms so we're going to focus and put
these all in one place and because we also did that 1788 this is a good one to work on so um
all right so this is all dealing with the body so this is what's the first one wednesday okay so the
first one is i2i um so agree or disagree i mean this yeah i guess you could in the negative let's
give a sample sentence guys so we don't see eye to eye on this topic what does that mean michelle
we don't we don't agree yeah we don't agree right would you say you use that more in the negative or
in the more positive sense without a negative yeah i think in general it's used more in a negative
sense in general but i think you could use it both ways like oh we really we really see eye to
eye on a lot of things so we're very compatible yeah i would say i would say and it's always
interesting like for example with your partner you realize that you know you see eye to eye on
certain things right and you say oh good thing we agree good thing we see eye to eye on that right
that's right that's right especially the important things yes that's huge that's
huge so seeing eye to eye what else michelle all right well the next one is with the cheeks right
cheek to cheek so this one makes me think of there's like a song like dancing cheek to
cheek have you heard that oh so romantic yes yeah so uh or it also makes me think of like how you
might stand in a picture like oh like let's get cheek to treat right so yeah it's not necessarily
like only for that song or being romantic but it can also just be for like a position that
you're standing in right lindsay yeah especially a selfie you see people right someone has the phone
out and you stick your cheek against the other person and that's cheek to cheek right right so
cheek to cheek um lindsay do you take a lot of selfies oh my god no michelle no not a selfie girl
not really i mean if i have to film a video or something and there's no one around i will
do that um but i'm not really a selfie person no because i feel like i would go to a famous
place and i maybe would lose myself and kind of do something wrong like step in the wrong
place or tumble down the hill or something trying to take a photo well there have been you've yeah
incidences of that there have been i know as i try to avoid that yeah so yeah yeah what about you
i mean if i if i'm i mean not really so much of myself necessarily but selfies uh with uh with dan
you know like yeah with the family sometimes it's just easier than asking someone to take a picture
but certainly it's better to get uh someone else to do it well it's been kind of interesting and
kind of awkward during the global health crisis that we're all going through the whole world is
going through this and so you know if you're traveling at all even within the us it's been
kind of awkward to say hey would you would you take a photo with my phone or someone asked you
and you don't really want to touch their phone and it's awkward so yeah yes yes yes i have been
and sometimes i'll uh you know we'll we'll do it but like i have been in situations where you know
we're do you ever find yourself in that position where you're somewhere where it looks like you
want a picture and then somebody is like oh do you want me to get that of you and then you're like
yeah the whole thing can be a little bit awkward
but hopefully we're coming out of this soon here so we'll be able to take more
selfies and help people take photos more yeah hoping for more selfies
yeah um the cheek to cheek what's the next one wednesday so the next one is back to back
um oh we have one before oh face to face okay we got a lot of good stuff here today so face to face
means in person and this is something that's happening less and less now all right here's
a quote guys zoom is okay but i prefer seeing my co-workers face to face yes and this is a
whole debate michelle when you teach um because i know you also taught in a school before right
do you prefer to in terms of you know the learning and teaching students would you rather be on zoom
or would you rather be in a school a physical classroom i think for teaching it's certainly
there it's much better to be in a physical classroom um yeah but that said you know in
the beginning when everything started happening and i was switched to being online i was like oh
there's i'm never gonna be able to like develop those same relationships get the same type of
feel but actually then i think everybody started getting used to it and yes i i do think that there
has been that that it's been better so i say that like i think in general everybody likes to be face
to face with somebody but like i know what all there's english you know we meet students online
and things like that and i think that people have in all realms kind of adapted to this and found
different ways to connect and make things good what do you think it's true i mean it also you
know there is something to be said for if we've signed up for classes at a physical school how
often do we actually get to those classes right what do we have in front of us we have traffic
we have the train we have people on the street slowing us down all these things we have to do
if we have our class from home we can actually attend more often probably and therefore are
we likely to get better i don't know it's kind of a mixed bag right it just depends
on your preference but a little bit of both i think is good michelle like a hybrid yeah
yeah a hybrid so a mix guys that's a good that's a good word that's a good expression
i agree i agree um so and then now we have back to back so yes this is very common
this basically means well it can be literally the positioning you're back to back with someone maybe
actually in class you might stand back to back for an exercise or something like that
or i just want to hop in here michelle all you guys have to do to know what that
is just go look at our podcast because you and i are oh that's right
on the podcast back to back so that's exactly what that looks like back to back yeah that's
right that's right um but you can also use it if it's not in the physical sense it's uh
one after the other so like oh lindsay can i call you later i have back-to-back meetings right now
yeah and that's obviously the more common one especially these days because no one is really
standing back to back these days as much right so so it's more like the meetings are happening back
to back for me more often right right right back to back exactly exactly all right next
one guys is head to head so one after the other yeah or sorry against each other so this weekend
i didn't really i don't really follow football but you know people in my universe do watch a lot
of football and i guess this was a big football weekend because there's a lot of football on tv
so different teams going head-to-head i don't know what happened but it caused a big controversy so
oh okay yeah i don't know either yeah you know just the intensity of football season in the u.s
right it's crazy yeah exactly so head to head so you've heard that being like
like against each other like the teams went head-to-head went head-to-head competed directly
and it may mean that they're rivals or this is a big game they finally met each other
right they're the top seeds and they finally come together right yeah do you think that this can be
used for not sports like oh like if you're arguing with someone like oh we went head to head yeah
i do i do think you could use it for that like a debate team or something right the state champions
went head to head sure i think so what do you think michelle yeah i think so too i think so too
and we're gonna do one more uh lindsay what is this one okay heart to heart so this one is where
you have a nice and a sincere talk with someone right where you both open up you both share
right um what's an example sentence michelle all right after the argument they had a heart
to heart everything is better now yeah so they they both maybe admitted that they were wrong
or they apologized it's kind of a breakthrough a heart to heart right would you say yes yeah a
heart to heart and so it's always like this warm fuzzy feeling maybe someone cries maybe not right
right right some kind of a breakthrough exactly where you get to a new place with the person right
right right right so heart to hearts are i think they're all it's always it's always good to have
a heart to heart of course it is of course it is absolutely and it's important sometimes you know
we put our defenses up and it's good to just let them down and just be honest sometimes i think
so right oh for sure for sure so should we put it all together in a role play let's do it michelle
here we go so we are co-workers in this case so oh my gosh i'm sorry tracy didn't see eye to eye
to us on the new plan oh sorry that should be with us with us i know i read the two but i thought
that doesn't sound right so let me do that again for our listeners so you guys don't get the wrong
idea i'm sorry tracy didn't see eye to eye with us on the new plan yeah it's too bad maybe she was
stressed because of her back-to-back conference calls true i know she prefers to work face-to-face
yeah it seemed like she went head-to-head with her client on that call
yeah i was surprised it's okay i think they had a heart to heart and cleared it all up yeah all
right okay uh let's get cheek to cheek and send a selfie over to the team of our meeting okay that
would be so weird if we used all those in one sentence one conversation as you guys know but
yeah sometimes we uh sometimes we try and stick a bunch of them in one conversation and it seems
and no one would ever say them all in one place but
but they're good exact examples yeah they're good examples for sure so first i said guys i said
i'm sorry that tracy didn't see eye to eye with us on the new plan so what do we mean again michelle
when we say that what did she what did she do what was her opinion she didn't agree with us
yeah she didn't she wasn't on board right no no no and then i said maybe she was stressed
because of her back-to-back conference calls so maybe she's very busy she has one conference call
then on the next conference call maybe that's impacting how she makes her decisions exactly
yeah and i said true i know she prefers to work face to face so maybe it's hard for her to be on
zoom all the time or google hangouts and you know she wants to be in the office talking to people
right right right and then i said it seemed like she went head-to-head with the club with
our clients on that call so maybe she got in a little in a little argument not good not good
right oh when it starts to come out with the client then then you got to check yourself i guess
um and then i said it's okay i think they had a heart-to-heart and cleared it all up right so
yeah exactly and then i said okay let's get chick to cheek and send a selfie
right to the team of our meeting you know it's kind of when we think about this
back to back conference calls stuff i've been hearing people really struggle some companies
are so meeting heavy guys i wonder if you guys are in a company where your company
just has constant meaning so how do you get work done michelle if there's constant meetings because
during the meeting you're not actually doing any work i better listeners struggle with that
yeah that can that can be tough i think you know sometimes uh businesses are are known for
having too many you know like all the time and i think we've done an episode a little
bit about about that meetings yeah meetings in general i think um sometimes they're you
know it's like almost you feel like you need to meet about the meeting and i know it's true
and that's why i think it's interesting there was just an episode on the wall street journal
podcast about another company that went to a four-day work week so they cut out fridays
and what they ended up doing was eliminating a lot of meetings and sending an email instead of
those meetings so i i think a lot of companies you know we did interview an expert on this
alex xujong kim pong we interviewed him last summer about this topic
i think a lot of companies as they scale back hours they're going to scale back meetings too
that will be interesting yeah anything to save time like cut the fat right cut the fat aren't
necessary and then you know get people being more productive in shorter amounts of time and then i
think everybody's happy yeah that's kind of the name of the game for us this year is simplicity
right michelle i love it we're going for simplicity so what's the takeaway for our
listeners today michelle what do you think okay well this has been part two of a series on this
kind of idiomatic structure that we found um we were focusing on the body today and guys if
you haven't already listened to the other episode that was episode 1788 a few weeks ago so this is
something to something right yeah same thing too the same thing um but all of these are very useful
and uh give you also kind of a good visual so try them out in your conversations that can be
you know think of you can use them at work would you use them in your personal life talk talk about
sports whatever it is yeah i love the idea of bringing in different like things you wouldn't
expect into what you're saying right most people wouldn't expect you to bring your heart into
what you're saying or we do animal idiom episodes sometimes i love it when we do that stuff it's
unexpected vocabulary words that you guys should use to bring yourself to that level of connection
all right so go for it yeah all right lindsay this was fun hopefully i'll see you face to face
soon i know i really hope so that'd be great all right i'll talk to you soon michelle take care bye
you