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Using agreement idioms

any idioms you need to use the right vocabulary and it's you've hit the nail on the head you've hit the nail on the head so we use this when your partner the person you're speak...

Course: Confidence in Cambridge speakingSection: Agreeing and disagreeing in speaking examsSubtitles: en

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use it like with

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any idioms

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you need to use the right vocabulary and

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it's you've hit the nail on the head

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you've hit the nail on the head so we

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use this

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when your partner the person you're

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speaking with

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says something very specific

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that is completely right is something

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you completely agree with

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so it's not just the general idea of

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what they're saying

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it's not their beliefs or the idea

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it's something that you have identified

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in what they have said that is exactly

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right so you haven't hit the nail on the

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head you the nail on the head so you can

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imagine you have a nail a hammer

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you haven't missed that the nail you've

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hit it right on the head you've

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completely got it

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exactly right okay so now let's look at

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some

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options for disagreeing so as i said you

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need to be a little bit more diplomatic

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when disagreeing because you don't want

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to

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offend your partner or create a bad

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feeling

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so the first option you have is to say i

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take your point

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but i take your point but

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so that's a very english way of

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disagreeing because you know you're

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saying i take your point that sounds

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like you're agreeing

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but the but

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