Phrase of the Day

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A special English phrase for every day of the year.

Discover a new phrase each day to use in your English! These are special phrases and sayings that English speakers use all the time, but you don't often see these phrases in English course books or other study material. Visit daily to learn some popular English phrases on a regular basis.

Did you know that we first introduced the Phrase of the day in early 2006!
You could say that puts us nearly 20 years ahead of the competition.

Phrase of the day

"You bet!"
We use this expression to say that we are extremely keen on something, or to emphasize something.

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"What's up?"
We use this expression to ask what has happened or what has gone wrong.

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"I don't blame you"
We use this expression to show sypathy with someone for what they said, did or thought.

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"It slipped my mind"
We use this expression to say that we forgot something.

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"In case you were wondering.."
We use this expression when we don't know if somebody is interested in a piece of information but we want to tell them anyway. It is often used by tour guides to add extra pieces of information.

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"(It's) all yours"
We use this expression to say that something now belongs to someone, or that they can use it now.
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