ADVANCED ENGLISH IDIOMS to pass your speaking exam. Cambridge Exam preparation.

Hello sir!!
Another great video by you. Could you please suggest book or something that may help to increase in the same skills like expressions or phrases. Thanks in advance.

Thanks, Ben!

These idioms are gold!

An idiom that I find particularly useful is "Whatever floats your boat."

Oh my gosh!!! My biggest pet peeve is that people who drink a lot of 🍺🍻🍻🍻🍺🍻 every day whereas I'm thinking about My real life

1-I haven't the foggiest/faintest idea: no tener ni puñetera/pajolera idea.
2- To hazard a guess: Aventurarse a decir.
3- To catch's something drift: si me pillas lo que digo.
4-To lose one strain of thought: Se me ha ido la pinza..
5- to Split hairs: no hace falta especificar tanto, actually irrelevant...
6- Pet Peeves:algo que te toca las narices/te toca la moral.
7- To cut a long story short:Abreviando, ciñiendome a lo elemental, yendo al grano...

I haven't the foggest idea this expression even existed lmao

Thanks for the video! Is it "Pet Peeve" North American, or is it also used in the UK?

Thank you for teaching these amazing idioms. I really really really enjoyed the clear and thorough explanation in your video. You are truly a great teacher.

most of these idioms are new to me except the "lose the train of thought & to cut the long story short"

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't listen🙃 thank u teacher Ben, I hope I will use these idiomatic expressions at my exam in a week

Hi there! Thanks for your videos.
How can I download the free worksheet?

Thank you so much for your invaluable videos and lessons, you are one of the best teachers I have ever met ! Is 'it's a bugbear of mine' similar to 'it's my pet peeve'? Thanks

This climate change stuff gets on my nerves. I can't stand it anymore!

Are you married? 🙄🙄

Thank you,teacher. I love your lessons.

Thanks! ✨

I'm happy to see that actually I already know 3 idioms out of these ones mentioned 😊 so I need to memorize less😅

Thanks for this helpful video! I'm taking the speaking test at the EOI this week. I'd would like to know whether you think this following expression is suitable for this type of tests. "For what is worth,..."
Thank you

Thank you very much for the amazing lesson. Tomorrow I’ve got the Speaking Cambridge Exam and your lesson with idioms will really help me. 😊

I live in a quaint village, a stone's throw from this city.

That's plus or minus what I want to say during my speaking exam, being asked for my place of living. I think it's a lovely expression, a stone's throw from somewhere basically means near to some place.

Very useful, thank you. I am following your Proficiency Course, but my biggest problem is the tempo (of the taste) and focus. Especially, when it comes to listening. After the record finish, although I understood it all, I forget most of it at the same moment. It's frustrating. All because of my nerves. I have to work on that, too.

Thanks a lot Ben. Your videos are absolutely riveting.
By the way, one of my biggest pet peeve is people parking in double queu, and of course, people throwing cigarette butts on the ground or on the beach.

Ben, thank you so much for this video☀️

Good morning Ben, in your website I don't see anaything related to linguaSkill Cambridge C1 Exam, Does it mean you don't have an specific course for that exam??. Thanks for your time

My pet peeve is students pointing and asking redundant things only for the teacher’s attention and to be told bravo 😂

Cutting a long story short is what you ought to do often, because let's admit it: you've got the unhealthy tendency to go on and on about the same opinion, going around the same thought/idea/statement in circles, like a broken record at times. I could''ve put my own two cents by being unfailingly polite, but at my certainly advanced age I take some liberties, like those of Albus Dumbledore when he says: "in my not so humble opinion...".

My speaking exam is in 30minutes. I will try to use it. Thanks Ben!

Is it "I haven't a bust of a clue" very informal for the speaking paper?

Let’s get down to the nitty gritty!

Could a good alternative expression for "I lost my train of thought" be "it slipped my mind"?
For example: "I was about to comment on what you said before, but the thought just slipped my mind".

The expression "to cut a long story short" tends to get cut short to "long story short" here in the US in casual conversations.

Thanks to your video I finally passed the speaking exam with flying colours. Thanks Ben. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for the video 😊

Is the phrase "I have not the faintest" informal?

Not what but how

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or whatever = let's not split hairs?

My biggest PET PEEVE is that when I see a person speaking on cell phone while driving especially in a heavy traffic ..

Rum about

Go directly to the point!!!! You divress too much.

Besides the speaking part, Can I use idioms for articles or informal letters?

Hello Ben!
In the C1 advanced there is a question that is:Where do you live?
I think that the idiom:Put down roots is a good one to use:
I lived in Portugal untill I was five,then my family decided to go to Spain and when we arrived there we put down roots and built a new live.

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Great video as always. I would like to ask you if we could replace "to cut a long story short" with "in a nutshell"? Are they synonyms? I would be elated, if you respond to my question.

Great content!!!! Thx

Can we say "to cut it short " ?