hello everyone welcome to idiom 100
where we learn 100 commonly used idioms
by native English speakers
all of the explanations are in English
so it might be challenging for you but
just try to imagine the meanings in your
head and study hard and soon you'll be
able to use these idioms in your
conversations
is everyone ready let's begin hello
everyone nice to see you again today's
idiom is it's anyone's call it's
anyone's call alright so let's imagine a
picture in our heads and we have a group
of people standing in a circle and kind
of chatting and talking to each other
and all of a sudden the phone rings okay
and you answer the phone and the person
on the phone asks huh can you help me I
have a big problem I need someone to
make a decision yeah and you think ah I
can't answer so you put the phone in the
group and you say it's anyone's call
yeah do you want the phone do you want
the call it's anyone's call you have to
help with the problem to make a decision
it's anyone's call alright so let's
imagine this in our head as we listen to
some examples it's anyone's call to
organise the Christmas dinner any
volunteers
I will I have some great ideas alright
so they had the problem the
decision-making was organizing Christmas
dinner and they kind of offered the job
to the group it's anyone's call I know
one person said I'll do it I can do it
okay
let's listen to another example the
professor said it was anyone's called to
think of the discussion material for
next week great you should volunteer
you rarely gives that opportunity
alright so the professor kind of gave
the opportunity to help think of the
discussion material for next week yeah
to contribute to the lesson and the
other student said oh you should
volunteer that's a big chance yeah it's
not often that he lets us help okay so
it was anyone's call he said any of the
students could volunteer to help all
right so it's anyone's call if you
guessed it means allowing others to take
charge or to help out yeah to solve the
problem it's anyone's call anyone can
volunteer or can mmm take charge okay
and it's similar if you remember it's
your call that's more direct to one
person right it's your call it's your
choice and your chance to make that
decision it's your call
and it's anyone's call means it's a
group yeah anyone can do it okay so
those are very similar and it just
depends on the situation if you're
talking to one person and you can't
decide and you want them to decide you
can tell them it's your call please
decide and if you want to open it to the
group yeah ah it's anyone's call yeah I
maybe I don't really want to do it but
you are welcome to do it okay so next
time you have an opportunity to do
something in this offering a choice or
decision making then you can offer it to
the group it's anyone's call yeah go
ahead and I'll see you next time
you