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
