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Put the nail in the coffin

he or she has finished everything just finished you off ended all of these problems with one big final problem to finish so it's like to put the nail in the coffin is to do the...

Course: Idioms for natural speechSection: Useful English idiomsSubtitles: en

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the coffin

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he or she has finished everything just

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finished you off ended all of these

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problems with one big final problem to

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finish so it's like to put the nail in

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the coffin is to do the last thing which

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finishes this a dreadful day or dreadful

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thing that's happened okay

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so our to put the nail in the coffin my

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dog took a poo on my bed great nail is

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quite a difficult word to pronounce

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because we have a diphthong a and then

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we're finishing with a dark L nail now

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intonation plays a big part in all of

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these things as well as of course the

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pronunciation things like the dark L in

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nail these are all really important

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factors of making your idiom sound

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interesting so if you don't know much

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about intonation and you feel like

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people don't really understand you then

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you do have the opportunity to join my

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course at ETJ english comm i really

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would love to help you it puts a big

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smile on my face when people complete my

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course and they have this beautiful

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sounding british accent and they're so

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much easier to understand as well as the

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recorded video content

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