Pete´s day at work
Mark: Yeah. These days everybody´s shopping at our competition, Bambu´s Furniture Store.
Peter: No way, everything in there costs an arm and a leg!
Mark: That is true. They do charge top dollar.
Peter: Besides, the salespeople are very strange. They really give me the creeps!
Mark: Well, I am truly unhappy to have to tell you this, but we´re about to go belly- up.
Mark: Pete, I hate to break the news, but our sales were down again last month.
Pete: Down again, Mark?
Pete: Down again, Mark?
Mark: Yeah. These days everybody´s shopping at our competition, Bambu´s Furniture Store.
Peter: No way, everything in there costs an arm and a leg!
Mark: That is true. They do charge top dollar.
Peter: Besides, the salespeople are very strange. They really give me the creeps!
Mark: Well, I am truly unhappy to have to tell you this, but we´re about to go belly- up.
Let´s learn
(to) break the news: to make something known.
(to) cost an arm and a leg: to be very expensive.
top dollar: the highest end of a price range; a lot of money.
(to) give one the creeps: to create a feeling of disgust or horror.
(to) go belly up: to go bankrupt
(to) cost an arm and a leg: to be very expensive.
top dollar: the highest end of a price range; a lot of money.
(to) give one the creeps: to create a feeling of disgust or horror.
(to) go belly up: to go bankrupt
6 comments:
Hi Libardo,
Let me tell you that your blog is cool; it is different, specific and I like the form (original), and the content (useful). Your topic is really interesting and you know the American culture and way of life.
Hi Libardo!
When i saw your blog, I can see the effort that you put on it, congrats!
your blog look different and also it is a handy tool to learn about American culture, and of course the way they speak.
I can see you really put an effort on this, it pretty nice the way you present your blog ... and also the idioms you provide are so good, they inmediately get your attention :)
hey:
Nice blog, it's well organized
congrats!!!
hi
Cool blog! It is an activity to learn idioms in context, where do you find these kind of exercises?
I liked the way u present the content, the dialogues are kinda similar to one English page: englishbaby.. Nice.
One suggestion Libardo, it'd be nice to know how useful are those slangs, I mean do people really use them? cuz sometimes the native ppl don't even know the meaning of them lol, I'm sayin' this cuz of personal experience.
Anyways I really like ur blog :)
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