VOA Learning English Words and Their Stories How Do You Talk About Everything
VOA Learning English Words and Their Stories How Do You Talk About Everything explains the American English expressions that mean everything, among them from cradle to grave, everything under the sun, from soup to nuts, everything from A to Z, everything but the kitchen sink and the whole ball of wax. VOA Learning English is the Voice of America service for English learners.
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How It Helps Your Business English
The episode gathers the American English expressions that mean everything and explains each one in turn: from cradle to grave, everything under the sun, from soup to nuts, everything from A to Z, everything but the kitchen sink and phrases built on the word whole. Short dialogues show several of them in business use. The audio runs five and a half minutes.
Play the audio and follow the text at the same time, stopping at each expression to hear where the stress falls. Note the two or three that suit the way you talk about a project from beginning to end, and use the short dialogues as models for your own sentences. Watch the video at the end for a second look at the expressions.
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