12 Idioms with Time Expressions [FREE SAMPLE - IDIOMS COURSE]
3/30/20266 min
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[background music] Hi and welcome to the Espresso English podcast where you can improve your English in just a few minutes a day. My name is Shana, and I'm the teacher at Espresso English. Make sure to visit the website, espressoenglish.net, where you can get online courses and e-books that will help you learn English even faster. Let's get started with today's lesson. Lesson five explanation: idioms with time. Around the clock. First, let me clarify one thing, the difference between a clock and a watch. Many English students confuse these two words. A clock is something you hang on a wall, and a watch is something you wear on your wrist. The hands of a clock go around continuously in a circle, so if you do something around the clock, you do it for twenty-four hours a day without stopping. Light years away. Light travels very fast, and the total distance that light travels in one year is called a light year. It's about ten trillion kilometers. That's very far. So the idiom light years away means that something is very far in the future. Like clockwork. When a clock is working correctly, it is accurate and regular. So if something happens like clockwork, it is predictable because it occurs