hello and welcome back to english with
lucy today i've got very special lesson
for you I've got my fellow teacher Chris
here he has a YouTube channel called
learn British English free it's a
fabulous channel definitely to check it
out
the link will be in the description
below Chris and I have got a really
interesting video planned for you today
it's going to be all about our top 5
favorite idioms so I've got my top 5 and
he's got his top 5 the first half is
here on my channel and then the second
half will be on Chris's channel so as
soon as you finish the first half here
click on the link in the description
head over to Chris's channel and you can
watch the second half there as well
quickly before we get started don't
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me on that okay so Chris and I have made
a list of each of our top 5 favourite
idioms and we're going to talk them
through with you today
so do you want to start on 5 I would
love to yeah my number 5 idiom is not my
cup of tea and we use this to describe
things that we don't like or we're not
interested in my best example would be
that as a huge fan of sports such as
football I don't actually like golf it's
not interesting for me so I would say
golf isn't my cup of tea okay so for me
I love gin but run really isn't my cup
of tea that'd be good
it would include mine area okay easy
so my number 5 is to beat around the
bush if you beat around the bush you
avoid talking about a specific topic or
problem so an example would be Chris I
know t-shirt it's I don't beat around
the bush group so you just say okay I
hate your t-shirt I'm sorry
so I was beating around the bush then I
was avoiding saying the real problem and
this is something that British people do
a lot with very polite be party
okay so what's a number for my number
for India is to move the goal posts and
this describes a situation when
someone's trying to do something and
someone else changes the rules or the
objectives making it more difficult it
might happen at work
or maybe in your studies where you're
trying to complete a task or a project
and someone changes the rules so they
change what they want you to do they
move the goal posts they've made it more
difficult for you that's very
frustrating it is they don't move
Michael I see it wouldn't burn yeah
right my number four is as good as gold
and if someone is as good as gold it
means that they're very nice and very
well behaved so when I was young my mom
always used to tell me that I was as
good as gold
I'm sure she could I was so well-behaved
do you believe that of course
looks good good
my number three idiom is something is a
piece of cake and this means that it is
really easy for example if you want to
learn English then learning English
through Lucy's YouTube channel learning
English becomes a piece of cake that way
ah thank you Chris
okay so that's it for this half of the
lesson now you need to go over to
Chris's channel learn British English
free the link is in the description and
watch the second half offer you very
soon