To fall at the first hurdle

Try your patience means 'test your patience'. Find out how to use it here with Phil and Feifei.Get a free transcript for this episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the-english-we-speak_2026/ep-261012Have you signed up to our email newsletter yet? If ...  Show more

I’ve got too many plans. I’m going to sack them off and just chill out this week! Learn how to use 'sack something off' in this programme with Georgie and Feifei.Get a free transcript for this episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the-english-we-spe ...  Show more

This Idiom is used with something isn’t going right and may end soon. This podcasts gives examples of how to use it. Try to create sentences as well. 

If there is something holding you back from moving up to your next level, think about this... If that one thing that has been hiding you back for the last year keeps holding you back for the next two or three or five years where will you be? will you trapped in the same spot you ...  Show more

The beginning of nonsense 

A grand idea is sparked.  You work it out and are certain it’s what you should do.  So you go for it.  You take that risk because you’re betting big on yourself!  As you’re going along you realize none of it is working out.  You’ve failed.  What should you do?  

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