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hi i'm vanessa from speak english with

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vanessa calm do you know any business

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idioms or phrasal verbs let's talk about

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them today you're gonna learn three

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business phrasal verbs and three

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business idioms but as you might know a

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lot of the videos on my channel are

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about conversational English

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so when I wanted to make a video about

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business English I thought hmmm who are

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some experts who can help me with

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professional English expressions ah ha

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ha I have a great solution for you today

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I'm joined with Layla and Sabra from

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love English the love English YouTube

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channel they are University English

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teachers so every day they help students

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with professional polite English whether

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that is passing an important English

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exam so that you can get a promotion so

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that you can get a better job so that

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you can get a visa to go to another

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country they are experts at this kind of

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professional polite English make sure

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that after you watch this video you

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check out the link in the description to

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the lesson that we did on their channel

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about the top English interview

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questions and answers this is a fun

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entertaining and useful lesson that we

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did together it's really great to work

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with other English teachers and I hope

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that it will be to your benefit hello

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everybody

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we love English I'm Sabra and I'm Labor

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thank you so much Vanessa for having us

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on your channel and asking us to help

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you out with explaining some of these

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business expressions and idioms so we

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are British if you can't tell our

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accents are British and we've got a flag

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just to help you recognize where we're

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from and we are real teachers we teach

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at a British University College we help

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students go to university and improve

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their language thank you so much Vanessa

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and let's get on with the expressions

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the first phrasal verb that we're gonna

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talk about is to go over something and

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the first idiom is to cut corners Leyla

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and Sabra how would you use these in

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professional business situations to go

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over something to go over something so

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let's start with a phrasal verb to go

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over to something a very common phrase

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verb isn't it so yes it is definitely

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yeah and when we go over something we

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review often a document or a plan or

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even a business proposal so it means to

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review and look at in detail to make

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sure there's no problems hmm so if you

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want somebody to check something at work

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you might say can you go over this for

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me I'm not sure about these numbers

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could you go over the figures perfect

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example yes figures to cut corners to

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cut corners an idiom that kind of means

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the opposite is to cut corners so to cut

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corners means to reduce the amount of

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time or money spent on doing something

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and often it ends up that you don't do

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such a good job because you cut corners

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exactly so for example if you cut

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corners when you're a student learning

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English you might get someone else to

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help you write your essays yep you go

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the quick way but it might not

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necessarily mean that you do such a good

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job or that you learn as much how would

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we use it in business laila in business

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you might try and cut corners when it

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comes to a project that you are

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investing in so you might want to save

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some money and maybe not have as many

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members of staff that you need which

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means that the job really isn't as good

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as it should be so generally it's a bit

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of a negative thing guys to cut corners

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I hope you guys aren't doing that thanks

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so much for going over these important

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expressions you certainly didn't cut any

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corners

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the next expressions that we're gonna

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talk about are to come up and better

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late than never

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Layla and Sabra how would you use these

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to come up to come up okay

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another phrasal verb that you will

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probably hear in the office is to come

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up something comes up and this just

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simply means that another situation

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arises to come up means to rise up a

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situation arises and you need to delay

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what you are doing so you may have

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planned to have a meeting but something

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might come up you might get an important

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business phone call that you have to

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take and you can't go to the meeting

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yeah so sorry this opportunity has come

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up I can't

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I can't miss it things like that yeah

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sometimes people will leave a meeting

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early because I'll say I'm really sorry

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but actually something more important

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has come up

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I have to leave I'm so sorry things like

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that so yes it is very very common in

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the workplace and it comes up to make

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happens unexpectedly really better late

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than never

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better late than never right this one

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guys actually it's a great expression if

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I often say it but I tend to be a bit of

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a late person I'm not the best with time

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management

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lalla knows so I will often say better

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late than never know I'll say it when

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you turn so it means it's better to

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arrive and to never come to never arrive

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so yes I think it's very easy to

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understand that one better late than

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never

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it's not just talking about arriving

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though that's a great example but it is

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meaning things like waiting for a

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telephone call it might mean you're

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waiting for somebody to come back with

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your answer about a project yes there's

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something coming in then yeah I'm saying

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yes exactly thanks for that great

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explanation the next time that something

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comes up and you're late you can say

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well better late than never

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the next two expressions that we're

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gonna talk about art to wrap up and call

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it a day lay let and savor what do these

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mean to wrap up something to wrap up

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something another phrasal verb that

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actually I would say we may be used a

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little bit less here in the UK but

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definitely I've heard the American to

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wrap things up and basically it means to

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bring things to a close to finish so if

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we're in a meeting you might say right

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let's wrap things up guys that's it we

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don't have any more time now let's wrap

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it up you might also be working on a

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project with somebody and you might say

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okay let's do this this and this and

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then wrap things up it's also used very

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often in the filmmaking industry they

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say and that's a wrap when it's finished

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yes so not so much in business but

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definitely used a lot in Hollywood to

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call it a day to call it a day okay so

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an idiom for this is let's call

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add a let's call it a day means that's

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it now let's call it a days and the day

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has finished so the working day is over

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let's call it the end of the day for

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example very common week we say this two

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weeks together actually after we've been

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filming for love English we're going off

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let's call it a day we've done enough

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now let's call it a day so it just means

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that's it the day is finished let's go

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home alright guys so we are gonna call

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it a day now and thank you and Vanessa

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for watching this lesson and joining us

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on this great collaboration thank you so

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much for having us again Vanessa and

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hello to all your audience it's great to

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get to know you guys a little bit thank

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you so much for having us

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and good luck in all your business

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meetings don't cut any corners and make

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sure you go over things very carefully

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alright let's wrap up this lesson it's

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time to call it a day let me know in the

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comments below this lesson where any of

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these phrasal verbs or idioms new to you

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do you ever cut corners when did

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something come up what time are you

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ready to call it a day at your job thank

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you so much for joining me in this

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special video with Layla and Sabra from

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love English make sure that you check

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out the other video that we did together

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on their channel about the top interview

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