My 10 FAVOURITE IDIOMS! Advanced English vocabulary C1/C2

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Seeing - and listening to - Ben, is a sight for sore eyes, every Sunday evening ☺️
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Any response?
I'm all ears 😉

My favourite one is : the dog's bollocks.
Thanks Ben.

Is it possible to use them in C2 writing tasks?

I'm always all ears when it comes to listening to Ben's advice on advanced English 📝

Nice range of idioms, thanks.

To rub salt into the wound - in Russian we have an idiom ‘сыпать соль на рану’. That’s almost a direct translation. The meaning is the same.

Thanks a lot ❤ I only knew half of the bunch you mentioned 🎉 to be all ears and to rub salt on a wound are used in Italy too with a litteral translation: essere tutto orecchi e spargere sale su una ferita.

Great idioms, some of them I've heard for the first time

3) in italian "cavar sangue da una rapa" that is to get blood from a turnip. A turnip can be red but you can't get blood from it

In for a penny in for a pound it's completely different "abbiamo fatto trenta, facciamo trentuno" and there's a story about a pope on it

Thank you very much for your video! It's really helpful!
Please, I have a quick question. There was the phrase in the last idiom "I'd love to hear your take on the matter". Does the word "take" mean "your point of view" here?
Thank you!

Hi, Ben. I came across one of your M.C.tests, but I chose the wrong answer. Then I saw one game where we had to choose the odd man out, but I couldn't choose the answer as I had never heard those words. Next time, I'll use a dictionary! I am fond of some English phrases, llke 'I'm all ears, curiosity killed the cat, to bite off more than you can chew, to kill two birds with one stone, to give the benefit of the doubt, etc.Thank you for sharing your premium contents with the world. You're a great teacher!🎉❤🎉❤

- go bananas
- to still have all the marbles
- it takes two to tango
- curry favour
- monkey business
- right on the money
- hit the sack
- go down a rabbit hole
- steal one's thunder
- to know one's onions

These idioms are great. Will definitely teach them to my high-level students. Thank you!

Thank you so much for sharing this vocabulary list, Ben! Although I already knew several of these expressions, there were still quite a few ones unknown to me.

Kind regards,
Anna

Is there an idiom with the opposite meaning of the idiom "A sight for sore eyes"?

In for a penny, in for a pound 😂

My favorite pull out all the stops 🤝

Thank you for the video 😊

One of my favourites:" To go pear shape" or "to add fuel to the fire" Maybe they could share some nuances with "to rub salt into the wound"..

Awesome as always!
Would it be a correct sentence...."Students that don't study are on a hiding to nothing"..?
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Greetings from Turkey

My favorite: I am all ears during your lectures.

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Can you give us the link to telegram group?

Be all ears in Italian is the same ..listening carefully

Thank you

my CAE exam is in 2 DAYS im so nervous 😢

I guess there are some idioms that may not be used freely any more,
because of the sensibilites of our times?
For example: "until the cows come home" or "to be busy as a bee" could be construed as cruelty to animals, don't you think?

Thanks for these idioms!) I'll use them with my students for sure))

How do you like those "terse" headlines along the template of "[something takes place] as [something else takes place]". Sometimes I'm left pondering if both parts are related in an cause-effect chain or they just coincide. An example from BBC: "Georgia's turmoil deepens as ex-footballer to be named president"

Hi Ben, love idioms. My quesrion could turn up as weird here but, is it protestors or protesters?

It kills me every Time when he says : this is english with ben, i m ben 🤣 like we didn’t know it 🤣

Idioms are so common in spoken colloquial English and so hard for learners of English to master in context. Great video, Ben.

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