Make Your English More EXPRESSIVE with these Phrases

Start using these flexible English idioms and expressions today. Many of the phrases in this lesson come from the world of entertainment and performance, but they are used naturally in the workplace, in presentations, and in daily life. I explain each expression clearly, show you what it really means, and give practical examples so you can understand how to use it correctly and confidently. You will learn expressions such as “the whole shebang,” “sell it,” “to get off on the wrong foot,” “to think on your feet,” and “to keep your feet on the ground,” along with many others that appear frequently in spoken and written English. https://www.engvid.com/make-your-engl... Need English coaching? Visit my site: https://honeyourenglish.com Learn how to "sell it":    • How to Sell: yourself, your products, your...   Expressions for talking about film and movies:    • English Conversation: Learn to Talk About ...   In this lesson: 0:00 Idioms & Expressions from Dance 1:09 Expressions about Dance 9:34 General Usage 13:50 General Idioms from Dance Transcript: Hello, and welcome back. My name is Benjamin from engVid, and today we are looking at vocabulary and idioms from the world of showbiz, in particular, dance. What better way to express the natural sort of joy of life than by dancing? Now, some of these phrases and idioms have a wider application than just the world of dance, so I'm going to be pointing those out to you so that you take away from this some really useful phrases and idioms to apply to your English. The richer and more varied your English becomes, the more you'll fit into conversations with natives, the more you can understand conversations, and the higher your marks will be if studying at exam level. If you do enjoy my videos, I'd really appreciate it if you subscribe to my channel, that way it can grow and we can continue to bring you top-rate quality. Okay. So, one of the most popular television shows in the UK is called Strictly Come Dancing, and it's a very entertaining program that's normally on each Saturday night in the autumn, and you will have an amateur dancer, normally a celebrity, paired with a professional dancer, and they'll be asked to do a particular dance each week. And I was watching some of the episodes earlier today, and I noted down some of the things the judges were saying. Because the judges give comments about the dance, and they then give them a rating out of 10. So, these are some of the phrases that are used. The whole shebang. This is an American phrase, and it means, like, the whole thing. Yep. The whole picture. Yep. You came up, you were wearing shiny shoes, your costume was fantastic, the way you moved was fantastic, your relationship with the partner was great, the feel of the music, you had it all. You had the whole shebang. Fiery hot. Yeah, wow. It was, like, it was alive. It was... Couldn't take my eyes off it. It was dynamic. It was like a force of nature. Whoa. The competition is heating up. So, each week on this show, strictly, one couple gets voted off. So, because of that competition, yep, they're getting less and less people each week, so it's becoming more and more competitive as dancers of equal ability are competing against each other. Each other. So, if the competition heats up, it means it's getting more competitive. One of the judges said, "Power, passion, precision." Now, from an English teacher's point of view, this is an interesting phrase because it combines two techniques. The rule of three, yep, because we have, like, one, two, three words that mean quite... I mean, not totally similar things, but he's using three to have an effect. A list of three. And then he's also using alliteration with that plosive P sound. Power, passion, precision. What do they mean in the context of dance? Well, power, being strong physically. Passion, there seems to be, like, an emotion in the dance, yep. It's not just like a robot, yep. The dancer has put themselves in there and they are feeling the dance. They're telling a story. And precision, it's done very accurately, yep. All the movements are exactly how they should be. Now, one of them, when they watched a not-very-good performance, said, "You need to interpret the music." Interpret. So, an interpreter looks at one language and, say, they're at a conference and they're listening to a speech in German and they have to translate it into French. So, an interpreter is taking the meaning from something and expressing it in another way. So, if you're going to interpret the music, you need to... What you need to do is you need to really try and understand, well, what is the story here and what does that mean to me? How am I going to make this, like, my dance? Yep. It may have been done 100 years ago. How do I make it fresh and relevant for today's audience? […]