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English Audio Request

bananaman
197 Words / 2 Recordings / 10 Comments

Get Down to Brass Tacks:
To become serious about something.

Get Over It:
To move beyond something that is bothering you.

Get Up On The Wrong Side Of The Bed:
Someone who is having a horrible day.

Get Your Walking Papers:
Get fired from a job.

Give Him The Slip:
To get away from. To escape.

Go Down Like A Lead Balloon:
To be received badly by an audience.

Go For Broke:
To gamble everything you have.

Go Out On A Limb:
Put yourself in a tough position in order to support someone/something.

Go The Extra Mile:
Going above and beyond whatever is required for the task at hand.

Good Samaritan:
Someone who helps others when they are in need, with no discussion for compensation, and no thought of a reward.

Graveyard Shift:
Working hours from about 12:00 am to 8:00 am. The time of the day when most other people are sleeping.

Great Minds Think Alike:
Intelligent people think like each other.

Green Room:
The waiting room, especially for those who are about to go on a tv or radio show.

Gut Feeling:
A personal intuition you get, especially when feel something may not be right.

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Comments

EminTX
July 18, 2010

"Get Down to Brass Tacks"
I have never heard of this ever. I would not recommend learning this one.

"Great Minds Think Alike"
I disagree with the definition. A person says this when s/he and another person say the same thing at the same time. For example, if you and your coworker both say this at the same time, "I think I want pizza for supper.", then one of you would follow with, "Great minds think alike!"

Peachey
July 19, 2010

The full (and rarely-quoted) phrase is, "great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ"... much closer to EminTX's explanation. :)

bananaman
July 19, 2010

Thanks for the recording and extra info :)

Mangoboy
July 22, 2010

To get down to brass tacks is very common in England. Perhaps not in the US. It comes from Cockney rhyming slang: Brass Tacks = Facts

BrettFechh
Aug. 1, 2010

"get down to brass tacks" is a phrase I have heard in the US. Moreover, as Mangoboy noted, it is very common in the UK, and worth learning.

Marcipangris
Aug. 2, 2010

Yes, I have heard "let's get down to brass tacks" many times when I've had to work on a project with people. :)

pockethook
Aug. 31, 2010

Strange, I've never heard "get down to brass tacks" and I've lived in the UK all my life. I even asked friends and they said they'd never heard the phrase before.

That said, apparently it's said in the film Pulp Fiction.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get_down_to_brass_tacks

Angleaya
Sept. 6, 2010

There are two on this list that I've never heard actually used, "Get down to brass tacks" and "Go down like a lead balloon".

EminTX
Sept. 6, 2010

Angleaya, Here, (in the US) we say, "...went over like a lead balloon." For example, "That joke sure went over like a lead balloon."

Angleaya
Sept. 7, 2010

Actually I'm from the US and I've still never heard it. Maybe it's just not used in the region I'm from.

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