Let’s TOUCH BASE! 15 English idioms to use at work

Learning English Idioms can feel like a steep learning curve! Don’t bite your tongue! Let’s practise 15 useful idioms to use at work!

Business English idioms are used so often in the workplace - they are essential to learn and use if you want to understand conversations with your colleagues at work!

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00:00 English Idioms at work
01:00 Get your foot in the door
01:56 Show someone the ropes
02:32 Throw (someone) in the deep end
03:16 A steep learning curve
04:14 Hey Lady! Online Speaking Community
05:03 (do something) by the book
05:27 Cut corners
06:00 Have (one’s) work cut out
06:28 Make short work of (something)
07:11 Touch base
08:04 Cut to the chase
09:15 Bite your tongue
09:57 Rock the boat
10:49 Put out fires
11:50 (to be) in hot water
12:17 Call it a day

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[climater]

Hi Emma, I’m happy to watch your video, I’ve been just get my foot in the door of travel industry, it’s totally new for me so I hope someone can show me the ropes in first month’s work, otherwise I’ll be thrown in the deep end, I hope colleagues can touch base with me on the work if possible, let’s call it a day, thank you so much for your support.

[madivalappakhairate]

Your lessons are always awesome and that helped me a lot to become fluent in English speaking
Love from India

[grandpagrammar]

One of the most effective English instructional channels on YouTube. Very easy to follow and also enjoyable to use.

[divalarose]

Thank you for charing that idioms..merci pour vos superbes leçons🥰🌹👍🌟😊

[allanfernandez]

thank you very much Emma. for your effort in teaching your native language. you do a fabulous job. Blessings Emma. I love learning with you.

[milabelkina]

Dear Emma, thank you very much for your classes. They are very useful.

[DA]

Studying with Emma teacher is very very happy, easy, good and nice.And today's chapter is very useful to me.👍👌🙂🙂

[marceloeyzaguirre]

Thank you Emma ...!! Another winner ... You explain them so easy and thorough .. thanks again. !!

[krisellebonifacio]

Emma, you wouldn’t believe how much you showed me the ropes in managing my English skills! Hope you stay active and inspired. I will work hard as a teacher and not cut corners with every lesson I have to teach them coz I want my pupils to learn a lot from me. Now I feel sleepy writing this comment, let me call it a day!

[honza]

Dear Madam Teacher Emma, thank YOU so much for this so important lesson!Btw, my first job was a kettelsmith(locksmith) and I was working with very heavy sections from castiron in building industry.After shift I was fully, completaly exhausted(for example - spasms, cramps in muscles). I was in hot water!! Thank YOU again and have a nice day and time, please!

[kslava-ytb]

Studying English with Emma is light work absolutely. Thanks for this lesson.

[DaveSmith]

*Hey there Emma! Catch a first thumbs up from me now!👍👍👍*
*And surely, a big thanks for the fascinating lesson, I'm always enjoy learning English idioms and phrasal verbs as* *well so that to sound as most naturally and confidently as it's possibly in general!💙💚❤*

[gabriellagirardi]

Great lesson, as usual! Your videos are so well done and easy to understand even if the topic is difficult. Thank you very much.

[sergiogamez]

Dear Emma, I have been following your channel for quite some years now. Thank you very much.
I am an English teacher who uses a conversational method to give my classes.
As part of easing the learning curve for my students, I recommend them to watch your prepositions of time and place videos.
Maybe I should begin by telling you how I got my foot in the world of teaching English. It was almost unintentionally; I hadn't been doing very well at college and I flunked a semester so my parents encouraged me to teach one-on-one English, Physics and Math. I bought a small ad at a magazine in my city and that is when I discovered my devotion to English language.
By that time I was starting to study Engineering, but, as a youngster, I didn't want to rock the boat in my family by switching careers.
I feel like I was thrown in the deep end. Well maybe that's a bit of an exaggerated statement. Being the oldest one in a family of 5 siblings gave 😌 me plenty of opportunities to develop intuition, patience and character. Helping with the homework of my siblings and friends made light work of this job.
On the other hand, with my current clients it is essential to bite my tongue so they can learn to self-correct, especially regarding pronunciation.
Again, thank you very much for your extremely valuable lessons, you keep me on my toes professionally.

[ManishSharma-skzh]

Hi, Emma
An interesting and informative lesson about Idioms related to work. I sincerely appreciate your efforts 👏👏.
This lesson is truly useful to all learners for improvement their English communication skills.
Thanks and regards,

[consorciasantiago]

I have heard most of these idioms and yes they mean exactly what I understood them to be. Thank you. Well done.

[gerlybioco]

Thanks, Teacher Emma. This wonderful lesson taught me a lot. You showed me the ropes on how to improve my English skills.

[ОльгаЕфремова-оя]

Yes, I was once thrown into the deep end when I was given an assignment at work that my colleague could not complete in a month, and they gave me only 4 days!
But I did it. I fixed all bugs in the program code.
It was a really steep leaning curve.

[jannat_Tahseen]

Thank you so much Emma, you cannot imagine the benefits you give me.
All love.

[abdulhazeeb]

Hi Emma, Thanks for this wonderful class. All these idioms are really useful & I can use it more frequently in my daily communications at office.