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👉Flexible working hours are a win-win situation for employers and employees.

🔷Tricks of the trade
methods that help you to do a job better or faster

👉Journalists have to learn the tricks of the trade quickly if they want to get the good stories.

🔷In the red
spending and owing more money than is being earned

👉Apparently the company had been in the red for some time before it went out of business.

🔷A hands-on approach
Someone with a hands-on way of doing things becomes closely involved in managing and organizing things and in making decisions

👉She's very much a hands-on manager.
👉A hands-on approach to the music itself has been lacking until now.

🔷Make a name for oneself
become famous

👉"by the time he was thirty-five, he had made a name for himself as a successful railway contractor"

🔷Corner the market
If a company corners the market in a particular type of product, it is more successful than any other company at selling the product

👉They've more or less cornered the fast-food market - they're in every big city in the world.

🔷The bottom line
the final line in the accounts of a company or organization, stating the total profit or loss that has been made

👉How will the rise in interest rates affect our bottom line?

🔷A win-win situation
A win-win situation or result is one that is good for everyone who is involved

🛑BUSINESS IDIOMS

🔷Golden opportunity
a chance to do something that is likely to be successful and rewarding

👉This is one golden opportunity we must not waste.

🔷Sell like hotcakes
To be sold quickly and in large quantities.

👉This record has been selling like hotcakes—I can't keep it in stock!

🔷Household name
a person or thing that is well known by the public.

👉"he'd never become a household name, unlike his famous younger brother"

🔷Put/ Throw a spanner in the works (informal.)
to cause something to not go as planned

👉We were ready to start the project when the bank threw a spanner in the works by denying the loan.

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A group of people

Group of people can be called by many names that are:

1. Cluster is a name that people use for others in mass numbers.

2. Squad is a term used for missions in military and survival.

3. Party can mean people doing a certain thing or eating out.

4. Circle can mean a group that is very close to you.

5. Team can mean when people perform a certain task together to achieve an objective.

6. Flock is a name that people use for students in exhibitions or any other place(for example a flock of students went to zoo).

IELTS Speaking Vocabulary - Music

♦️music genre: a distinct type of music.
♦️pop music: a genre of popular music.
♦️catchy tune: a tune or a song that's easy to remember and that you enjoy singing.
♦️elevator music: music that is played in places like supermarket or family restaurant.
♦️live music: music performance in front of an audience.
♦️music to one's ears: something (often information) very pleasant and enjoyable to someone.
♦️opera: a kind of performance in which actors sing during their play with music performed by an orchestra.
♦️tone deaf: not able to discern the notes properly.
♦️tuneful: pleasant and melodious music or sound.
♦️to ring a bell: to sound familiar.
♦️to sound like a broken record: to repeat yourself again and again.
♦️to strike (hit) a false note: to do something wrong.
♦️to face the music: to have to accept the unpleasant consequences of your actions.
♦️ringtone: sound that a cell phone makes when someone is calling.

The Most Useful Idioms and their Meanings

Call it a day
Meaning: To declare the end of a task

Example: I’m tired. Let’s call it a day.

Can’t judge a book by its cover
Meaning: Cannot judge something primarily on appearance

Example: This report may look dull, but don’t judge a book by its cover

Catnap
Meaning: To have a short, light sleep, a doze

Example: I’m really tired. I need a catnap right now!

Couch potato
Meaning: A lazy person

Example: The only thing you do all day is watching TV. You’ve become a real couch potato, haven’t you?

Cry over spilled milk
Meaning: When you complain about a loss from the past

Example: Yes, we made a mistake, but there’s no point in crying over spilled milk

🔵Example sentences:

📍The politician did not commit himself to either side of the reporter’s controversial question.

📍He just sat on the fence so as not to lose votes from either side.

📍You can’t sit on the fence any longer you must choose whose side you are on.

📍You have to choose whether you support the candidate or not.

📍You can’t sit on the fence right now, you must vote!

🔵To sit on the fence🔵

📌= to be uncommitted or undecided

📌= to remain neutral on a certain topic

📌= to not have a stance or open opinion about a topic

📌= to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself to one side of an argument or dispute

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Business Vocabulary Continued, stay tuned for our complete guide regarding business terms to be used in the IELTS speaking component.

Please take a look at these 6 phrases relating to business. During the IELTS exam, you may be asked to speak about a business venture. Use these phrases to increase your fluency.

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