Confused by modern idioms? - 6 Minute English

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Ubiquitous (adj) =found everywhere

Nice word

this video is useful, i don't like Sam's voice.

I have a question! In fact, two! What do 'Dropping the Mic' and 'Jumping the Shark' mean?

This one is so usefull! Because I learned so many idioms for my exam, but many seem to be outdated, even archaic.

This video introduce some modern idioms, such as breaking the internet, throw in the tower, Groundhog Day and so on. Most of the idioms come from the movie, internet and TV and and take a long time to develop.

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Thanks. Really helpful

I'm in the habit of listening to 6 minute English every day.

Love listening to these short audios

It will be awesome if there is a subtitle to write notes some new vocabulary!!

Thanks for your valuable idioms, which I can learn a lot from that

thanks a lot !!

Many idioms her I already know thanks to social media

In Kampala, using a good public toilet actually costs money

Nice one

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To be honest, I’m more confused by modern idiots.

Its baking outside. I have to spend a penny cuz I drunk a lot of water.

Hello from Poland

Could you please give me The name of this girl?

Why is this in a video form, if there are no visuals or text shown? Seeing the words up on the screen does make a huge difference!
As a teacher, I find the earlier format far better.

Hold the horses break the internet throw a towel

Long time ago there's a session about idiom on BBC radio every morning that I listened to before school. I remember once they explained the meaning of "taken its toll on me" from This Love by Maroon 5. That session helped me a lot to learn English. I miss it!

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Spend the peny.- go to the toilet
Throw in the towel - boxing ideam..give up
Hold your horses - wait & think
Dropping the mic
Jump the shark
Word of mouth
Groundhog day - repeated things happening.
Breaking the internet - so much excitement about website.
A trivial problem
Pull my leg

VOCABULARY IN THIS VIDEO

1. Give up = surrender
2. Hold your horses: used to tell someone to stop and consider carefully their decision or opinion about something
3. Embedded: to put something firmly and deeply into something else, or to be put into something in this way
4. Spend a penny: (old-fashioned idiom) go to the toilet
5. Thrown in the towel: (idiom) give in; surrender; stop doing something because you realise you cannot succeed
6. Groundhog day: (idiom) a situation in which events that have happened before, happen again in exactly the same way
7. Ubiquitous: seeming to appear everywhere
8. Break the internet : (idiom) cause so much excitement about something online that many people visit the website, making it crash
9. First-world problem: (idiom) a problem that does not seem very important when compared to the serious problems faced by people in poorer parts of the world

I love learning new idioms, It comes in handy, thanks a lot :))

Useful but wish it was in American accent

Hi everyone i was wondering what is the meaning of "jumping the shark " i don't understand please help me bbc

Wow this one was out of this world. I am chuffed to learn idioms from this lesson and I would want more idioms like this one.

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English is hard

Enjoyed listening to ur new English topic, but I guess idioms are not welcome in formal discussions.

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