Idioms! Wow I love idioms and did you
know that idioms are very important for the C1 Advanced Cambridge exam? Really!? Yes
really! To be honest there's not much difference between the grammatical requirements for B2 First
and the grammatical requirements for C1 Advanced. The difference is your ability to use this
grammar and also your range of vocabulary. Idioms are a great way to increase this range
so if you are writing an informal text or talking to your partner during the
speaking exam then idioms are a great way to boost your marks and wow we love boosting
marks! My name is Toby, this is SMASH English and here are some fantastic body idioms
for you to use in the C1 Advanced Cambridge exam.... BREAK A LEG. Oh my god yeah, great, thanks a lot! See
you soon, Chloe! Bye! Monica, what was that? Bruce! Oh my god that was Chloe Ting! Yes Monica
and i've just been to the pub with Pewdiepie! Bloody hell... Yeah it was and she wants me to
make a youtube video for her fitness channel! Bruce, what am I doing talking to you
anyway? I need to go and get ready! Ciao caio! Uh, All right then well, break a leg,
I guess? You want me to break one of my legs!? What are you sick in the head!? Oh, Monica! Break
a leg does not literally mean break your leg. No! It means "good luck". Yeah exactly, Toby. That's
what I meant! Oh, okay then well thanks I guess. Anyway I've gotta get going bye guys! Ah! Oh my
god! My leg! Oh my god... deep breaths, Monica! I think i've broken it! You could use this idiom
when you're writing an article or a blog post. Usually an article or blog post will finish
by recommending that the reader does something and so you could recommend the reader to do
something and then wish them luck with "break a leg"! Wow, Toby that is fantastic advice!
Thank you! Thank you very very much! TO COST AN ARM AND A LEG Oh hi, Bruce! What? Duke! Can't you see
that I'm busy working!? God you are so rude! Do you have a beer that I could have? No mate sorry. But you've got another one right
there! Oh what do you mean? You mean this? No mate sorry. This is a special beer just for
me. It would cost you an arm and a leg! Oh okay... What the bloody hell are you doing,
you nut case! I'll give you an arm but I can keep a leg okay? Yeah DEAL!
Oh my diddy donuts... Duke are you mad! "To cost an arm and a leg" does not literally mean to cost an arm and a leg. Oh oh...
wow ....well that's embarrassing. It means to cost a lot of money an unreasonable amount of money. This is a fantastic idiom
to use in a review. When you are reviewing something you're normally reviewing something that
costs money that's the whole point in a review: should the person reading the review spend
their hard-earned cash on this object or experience? So when you comment on the price you
could say "it costs an arm and a leg" or maybe if it is priced reasonably you could say
"it doesn't cost an arm and a leg". This is marvellous! Seriously, just use it. Use
it no matter what. Just say it "it doesn't cost an arm and a leg" or "it cost an arm and a
leg". Oh my god that's so expensive. Yes? Yes! TO BE ALL EARS. Phwoar! Bloody hell, Tobes! Monica breaking her
leg, Duke trying to cut his own arm off what is going on!? It's you, Bruce! You and your bloody
idioms! Well how can I stop being misunderstood? I want advice, Tobes! Seriously, I'm all ears!
You're what? I said i'm all ears! No, you're not. You're also eyes, a nose, a mouth, arms, a
body... Bruce if you were all ears you would look ridiculous! Forget it. I give up. Jesus christ....
If you are all ears it means you are willing to listen to what someone has to say. Use this in
the speaking exam. This is especially useful for parts three and four. For example in part
three after you have made your contribution use this expression to ask your partner for their
opinion. So in general I don't really think that instant messaging is the best way to stay in
touch with mates. Like, if I want to catch up with my mates we usually go down the pub, do
you know what I mean? But maybe you disagree, Monica? I don't know. I'm all ears! Yeah,
unlike you I really enjoy instant messaging and I don't spend so much time at the pub. Yeah
that that's enough. So say you are all ears to let your partner know that you are open to
their suggestions and that is a very nice thing to say for your partner and for the examiner.
You will say "I'm all ears" and the examiner will think "I'm all amazed at what this candidate
has said"! Full marks! That's what examiners do. TO GET ON ONE'S NERVES. Hi Monica. How did the uh, how did the
Chloe Ting thing go? I couldn't even go. I broke my leg! Life is so unfair!
Oh, Monica that's terrible. I'm sorry. No you're not, Bruce! Shut up! I
hate you! I guess you never STOOD a chance! I guess you could say that this
wasn't your lucky BREAK! Toby, Bruce is getting on my nerves! Make him stop!
All right, all right, Monica. I'll take a BREAK! Stop it! If something gets on your nerves it
means it annoys you. I've seen this expression come up in the use of english part of the
C1 Advanced Cambridge exam. It could appear in part one and it might look something like
this... Many people feel that studying without SMASH English is boring. In fact many remark that
their teachers get on their .......... nerves. Or you could find it in part two of the
use of english paper: The Open Cloze part. I have a video on on that part right here!
And it could look something like this... I've never seen eye to eye with my brother in
fact he _____ on my nerves more than anyone else. Here the answer would be GETS. And
finally it could appear in part four of the C1 Advanced use of english
paper: the keyword transformations part and I have a video all about that part right here!
But the question could look something like this... "Please stop annoying me" is our sentence.
GETTING is our key word and "I wish you would _______ nerves" is the sentence that we must
use. We need STOP. After STOP we need a GERUND and then to complete the expression we need ON
MY. I wish you would stop getting on my nerves. TO KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED. Oh my god thank you so much for the opportunity,
Chloe! Okay see you later! Ciao ciao! Uh what was that? Oh my god, Bruce it was
Chloe! She said it doesn't matter about my legs! She said my upper body is so fit
that I should make a video about the upper body instead of the lower body! Oh my god
this is great! Oh Monica that's great news. Keep your fingers crossed and I'm sure
everything will go brilliantly! What? Oh my god that was so humiliating! What's wrong? It went terribly, Bruce! I
couldn't do any of the exercises because I had my fingers crossed like, this was terrible
advice! Oh forget it... I'm done. See you later. If you keep your fingers crossed you
cross your fingers as a sign of good luck. When people say this though it does not
necessarily mean they are literally crossing their fingers. I am keeping my fingers crossed for
you means "I am hoping for the best". For example in the C1 Advanced speaking exam in part one
or part four you will likely get a question about the future, perhaps the near future
perhaps the distant future, you will probably though get a question about the future. So use
this expression to talk about something you hope to happen. Monica, where do you see yourself in
five years? Well hopefully I will have left SMASH English and, like, a big successful youtuber will
be paying me money to make videos for them or like be their model or something, I don't
know... I'm keeping my fingers crossed! TO SEE EYE TO EYE. Monica, I just want to say um... No, Bruce! I'm
not interested! Talk to the hand because the face ain't listening! But I wanted to... Nope! But...
No! Well I guess we can't see eye to eye then, can we? Bruce you are so ignorant! I can see eye to
eye easily! Look! See! You just do this! Look! Eye to eye! See! I'm seeing eye to eye! It's really
simple! I bet you can't do it though you idiot! Wow. To see eye to eye means to agree. If two
people see eye to eye it means they agree. Use this when you agree with your partner in the
speaking exam and yeah that's really obvious. Right, instead of saying "I agree" say "okay so we
see eye to eye on that one" or maybe if you don't agree you could say "we don't see eye to eye on
that one". Very, very simple and great advice! But all good advice must come to an end at some point
and we have reached that point and that's great for me because it means I can go home and relax
but for you it's terrible because this video... YOU LOVED IT! So those were six body idioms that
you can use in every single C1 Advanced exam that you do! Fantastic! If you liked the video don't
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