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 won't catch me..."
We use this expression to talk about an activity that other people do and to say that we never do this activity and we don’t approve of it.

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"Keep your hair on"
We use this expression to tell someone to not be angry or upset, which we think is unnecessary.

Phrase of the day

"Good for you!"
We use this expression to congratulate someone or show we approve of something.

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"I'm not really a (football) person"
We use this expression to say that we don't really like a thing or enjoy an activity that many other people like or enjoy.

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"It / He does my head in."
We use this expression to say that someoneor something is really annoying us

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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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