hello I'm Emma

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from English English in the workplace at
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work in the office knowing the idioms
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phrasal verbs and unique vocabulary
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that's used in these professional
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contexts is so important
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I'll admit that there is a lot to learn
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there but today I want to focus on some
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really common very useful expressions
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that you'll hear often at work and in
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these professional contexts at the
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office with your colleagues with your
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boss with your clients your customers in
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interviews speaking exams with your
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teacher or your university professor if
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you haven't already noticed you'll soon
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realize that the office is where idioms
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and English expressions go wild at times
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it feels like people only speak using
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idioms and slang so whether you're flat
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out getting off-track
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losing your train of thought or banking
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on an early finish these 10 essential
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business English expressions will help
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you to sound more natural and confident
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at work learning these expressions is
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essential and a fantastic way to hear
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so let's start with flat out if you're
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flat out you're incredibly busy you have
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lots to do so much that you can't stop
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to have a break I'll be flat out next
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week because there's a new shipment
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arriving
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I've been flat out all week I'm
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exhausted
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in Australia where I'm from we might
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also use flat chat it's used in exactly
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the same way to mean that someone is
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very busy train of thought have you ever
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been talking about something and then
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completely forgotten what you're talking
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about and why you're talking about it it
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happens to me more often than I'd like
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to admit but this happens when your
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train of thought gets distracted by
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something else the clear progression of
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your thoughts are stopped by something
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so the expression that you'll most
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commonly hear is oh I've lost my train
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of thought what was I talking about
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I've lost my train of thought my mum
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called and completely disrupted my train
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of thought can I ask you a question
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just give me a minute I don't want to
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disrupt my train of thought now if you
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lose your train of thought you'll need
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to get back on track if something is on
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track it's happening as it should be
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there's no problem at all if something
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is not happening as you planned and you
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want to change it you want to get back
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on track we missed the deadline last
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week but we've just submitted the report
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now so we're getting back on track
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are you on track to complete the report
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by the end of the week so logically if
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something is not on track it's not
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happening as it should be then you're
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off track imagine this you're busy
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you're flat out and you have to attend a
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meeting about a project that you're
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working on but the people at the meeting
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are not prepared and the conversation is
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just going everywhere people are talking
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about their kids what they had for
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dinner last night any other issue except
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what you should be talking about so you
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decide to interrupt the conversation and
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say we're getting off track here guys
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we've only got ten more minutes left and
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we need to confirm the marketing budget
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it's used to say that a person or a
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group of people have become distracted
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from their main purpose
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they've lost their focus that's just
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like my aunt Mary
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actually she does it all the time she
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lives on her own which is probably why
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but her house is beautiful and she's got
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the dogs to keep her company oh sorry
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I'm getting off track here are a few
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more examples it's difficult to stay on
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track with so many disruptions perhaps
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we should move to the conference room I
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don't want to get off-track but we can
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all agree that the new marketing manager
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is difficult to get along with
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we should have completed the work by now
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but the team got off track with some
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technical issues this idiom also has a
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literal meaning to get lost or lose your
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direction to literally get off the track
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and hear a track means a path or a road
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so if you're off the track you're not on
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the road on the path that you need to be
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on to Bank on
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to Bank on something means to bet that
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something will happen in a certain way
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to be really sure or confident that
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something will happen so for example I'm
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banking on Sarah to get a promotion so
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that I can apply for her position since
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it's a public holiday on Monday we're
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banking on an early finish tonight it
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can also be used in a negative sentence
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often advising someone against something
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I wouldn't bank on it that means it's
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not a good idea to assume that it will
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happen to brush up on this is a phrasal
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verb but one that's idiomatic and it
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means to update or to improve your
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skills in some way it can be used in any
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context really formal or informal but
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this expression is so useful in a
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professional context because sometimes
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it can be a little awkward or
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embarrassing to say that you don't have
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fantastic skills in one area right but
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by saying that you need to brush up on
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those skills is a much softer way of
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saying that you're not that good at
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something but you are willing to
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practice or study to improve those
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skills I'm brushing up on my Italian
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because I've got a business trip in July
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I got the job at the publishing company
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but I really need to brush up on my
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editing skills I'm out of practice to
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bring something to the table so this
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idiom means to provide it something that
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will be of benefit something useful and
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it's often used in a professional
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context to describe the skills or
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experience that someone brings to a team
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or to a company the great thing about
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Sam
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that she brings years of management
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experience to the table
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see how thee something in our structure
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is a noun phrase here this is really
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common with this expression he brings
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excellent communication skills and
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award-winning design experience to the
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table but during a meeting you might
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also hear someone use this expression
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what have you brought to the table and
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that means what suggestions or ideas did
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you bring to the meeting can you offer
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to the people in the meeting to bring up
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now this is a very common phrasal verb
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you've probably heard it before it means
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to mention or introduce a topic someone
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can bring something up during a meeting
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a call or a casual conversation I'll
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bring it up with Stephanie when I see
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her next week our presentation is
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missing some of the key points so I'm
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gonna bring it up with the team tomorrow
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we can spend some more time on it to
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turn down again this is another common
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phrasal verb but it's also idiomatic it
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means to say no to something or refuse
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something they offered me tickets to the
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conference but I had to turn them down
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because it's my son's birthday he turned
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it down because they offered him the
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promotion but told him that they
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couldn't increase his salary I applied
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for the position but then I found out I
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had to spend six months of the year
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living in New Zealand so I had to turn
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them down now when you do something
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without planning or preparing for it
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there are a couple of useful expressions
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that you can use you can say that you'll
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wing it my presentations on my laptop
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which I left at home I'll just have to
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wing it if you haven't received the
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notes you'll just have to wing it
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usually this idiom suggests that you
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didn't really plan it to be that way but
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for some reason you're underprepared if
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you do something that's off-the-cuff
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you're doing something without preparing
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for it but you're kind of comfortable
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with that you're cool with that I wish
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that I was confident enough to make
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presentations off-the-cuff I spent so
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much time planning for our monthly board
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meeting Paul won an award last night and
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made a fantastic speech totally
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off-the-cuff well that's it for this
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lesson I hope you learnt some new
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expressions remember that these
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expressions are often used in a
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professional context but not only in a
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professional context you'll often hear
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them used in casual informal contexts as
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well so they're good ones to learn and
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