English Sayings for Everyday Conversations

Introduction 

Hello! It’s Kristine here with the Express to Impress podcast. This episode is a follow-up to the previous episode, Less is More: Tips for Effective International Business Communication. It’s an episode for English language learners, and you’ll learn English sayings for everyday conversations. Specifically, you’ll learn six idioms, phrases, adjectives, and adverbs. When you use these English sayings in everyday conversations, you’ll connect better with native English speakers. Plus, you’ll recognize them when you hear them. As always, there will be an exercise at the end for those looking to modify their accents.

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Now, let’s begin!

New English Sayings

I will introduce six English sayings, share how I used them in the previous episode, and provide definitions.

Go Over One’s Heads

They also feel frustrated they don’t understand the meaning of many idiomatic expressions, have to repeat themselves, and have jokes go over their heads.

Definition: To be too difficult for someone to understand. Another common meaning of “Go Over One’s Head” is to bypass a person of an immediately higher rank and seek out a person of even higher rank.

Who Knows

She may have thought about my feedback after our time together and reconsidered; who knows.

Definition: A rhetorical question asked to show that the person doesn’t know the answer.

Dry

Globish is a dry version of the English language without idioms or complex grammar.

Definition: The word dry is used as an adjective in the sentence meaning dull and uninteresting.

Get the Job Done

It’s the basics of the language intended to get the job done.

Definition: To fulfill one’s task and do what is required.

Seriously

That’s a seriously intimidating number!

Definition: An adverb that means very or extremely. 

Par for the Course

Inevitably, they discover mistakes. It’s par for the course.

Definition: What is normal or expected.

Now you know some examples of English sayings to use in a conversation. I encourage you to start using these English expressions today!

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English Learning Homework

Learning takes repetition and implementation. So, I’ll give you an exercise! Listen to this episode again and repeat the words out loud to practice. It will expand your English vocabulary and help you improve your American English pronunciation, listening skills, and intonation. You’ll be doing the Shadowing Technique! If you need a reminder about implementing the Shadowing Technique, check out my episode, Introducing the Shadowing Technique for English Learning.  

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