{"id":20139,"date":"2023-01-29T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T22:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/?p=20139"},"modified":"2023-02-06T23:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T07:19:03","slug":"bep-393-english-idioms-about-body-parts-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/29\/bep-393-english-idioms-about-body-parts-1\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP 393 &#8211; English Idioms about Body Parts (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-20139-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/BEP393-Body-Idioms-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/BEP393-Body-Idioms-1.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/bizpod\/BEP393-Body-Idioms-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"BEP 393 - English Idioms about Body Parts (1)\" href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/content18\/BEP393POD\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP393-LESSON-English-Idioms-Body-1.jpg\" alt=\"BEP 393 - English Idioms about Body Parts (1)\" width=\"1502\" height=\"644\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP393-LESSON-English-Idioms-Body-1.jpg 1502w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP393-LESSON-English-Idioms-Body-1-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP393-LESSON-English-Idioms-Body-1-600x257.jpg 600w, https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BEP393-LESSON-English-Idioms-Body-1-768x329.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1502px) 100vw, 1502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Business English Pod for today\u2019s lesson on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/business-idioms\/\" title=\"English idioms\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">English idioms<\/a> related to different parts of the body. <\/p>\n<p>Now you probably already know that when I said \u201chead over to\u201d the website, I meant you should go look at the website. Even if you didn\u2019t know that particular expression, you could probably guess the meaning from my sentence. &#8220;Head over to&#8221; is a kind of idiom, and English has a lot of idioms, as you&#8217;ve probably noticed!<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there are many common sources of idioms. And one interesting source is the human body. There are a few body parts in particular that have generated a lot of idioms. English has dozens of idioms just with the words \u201chead\u201d and \u201chands.\u201d But there are idioms using all different parts of the body, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to learn about today.<\/p>\n<p>In this lesson, we\u2019ll listen to a conversation between two friends and former colleagues: Maria and Trevor. They\u2019re meeting for coffee and are eager to catch up after not seeing each other for a while. Maria and Trevor talk about their different work situations. During their conversation, they use many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/business-idioms\/\" title=\"English idioms\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">English idioms<\/a> related to the human body. See if you can spot some of these as we go through the dialog, and we\u2019ll explain them later in the debrief.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listening Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.\tHow does Trevor agree with Maria\u2019s assessment of her old boss Roger?<br \/>\n2.\tHow does Maria describe her ten years of working at Trevor\u2019s company?<br \/>\n3.\tWhat does Maria say about the attitude of the people she works with?<\/p>\n<p>[tp no_translate=&#8221;y&#8221;]<strong>Premium Members: <a href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/content18\/BEP393SN-Body-Idioms-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">PDF Transcript<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/content18\/BEP393QIZ\/presentation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Quizzes<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/content18\/BEP393PC.mp3\" 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