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

"As if !"
We use this expression to say that something is extremely unlikely or even impossible. It's short for 'As if that were possible.'

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"I'd go along with that"
We use this expression to say that we agree with something someone has said.

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"A deal's a deal !"
We use this expression to point out that somebody has to keep a promise that they made earlier

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"Life's too short."
We use this expression to say that we shouldn't waste our life doing things that aren't important or spend time worrying about things that we can't change.

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"Knowing me/him etc"
We use this expression to say that something is not surprising for someone.

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"If needs be"
We use this phrase to talk about something that might be necessary in the future.
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