5 Common British English Expressions (Episode 3)

Hello and welcome back to English with Lucy. Today we have another episode of my fabulous five common British expressions. Now before we get started make sure you connect with me on all my social media which is right here and I've got my Instagram account. Obviously you can subscribe to my YouTube, you can also like me on Facebook and for my Chinese followers I have my Weibo account as well. Okay so our first expression is a piece of cake and this is very similar to easy peasy lemon squeezy which we've discussed in a previous video and basically it means very easy. So I might come out of a particularly easy exam saying that exam was a piece of cake, that exam was really easy. So number two break a leg actually looks really rather cruel but I promise you it's positive and break a leg means good luck. So before a race, before a job interview, before a test instead of saying good luck I might say break a leg, do really well. So since we're talking about legs let's bring arms into the equation as well. Number three is it cost an arm and a leg and this basically means something was really expensive. If I say my bag cost an arm and a leg I mean it cost a lot of money. Now the next one isn't particularly nice, it is to pop one's clogs and this actually means to die but we use it quite affectionately, it's like a nice way of saying that someone's died. So I'm going to a funeral this Sunday, my neighbour's popped his clogs. It's a way of saying my neighbour's died but we don't want to say the death word so we say they've popped their clogs. And then we have number five to call it a day and this means to end a task. So for example I'm feeling a bit tired, I think I'll call it a day and that means I think I'll stop here, let's finish. So as we've come to number five I think I'll call it a day now, bye. Thank you so much for watching this episode of five common British expressions. I hope you liked it and I hope you learned something. Make sure you connect with all my social media as I said before and have a very lovely week, bye. This wine is off.