Clarifying unusual idioms

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20 years

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that could be true or not but they're on

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their last legs

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that's a good idiom to use but with cars

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cars have wheels so it sounds a bit

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silly a bit strange

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it's okay but just using as it were

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really emphasizes that it's a figurative

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example

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okay so when you're in the exam

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situation when you're in the speaking

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part of the exam

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and you say something that's not quite

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right that you

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you kind of wish you hadn't said use one

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of these expressions and it signals to

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the examiner that you recognize

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that it's not quite right it can't save

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you from everything it's not an excuse

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for making

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uh vocabulary or grammar mistakes of

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course

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unfortunately there's no magic solution

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for that okay guys thank you for joining

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me and i'll see you

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very soon for another video okay bye