BBC sport idioms – Horse racing

Oct 252012

In this episode, The Teacher introduces you to three idiomatic phrases connected with horse
racing.
1. It’s neck and neck.
2. On the home straight or stretch.
3. Down to the wire.

Transcript
Yah! Yah! Come on Bessie!…
Hello, I’m a very interesting and intelligent man…. Yah!
And today, I’m getting together with the sport of horse racing to teach you some idioms in English….Yah! Alright girl, come on. Come on Bessie! Yah! Yah!
I bet you’ve never been taught by the sport of horse racing before!
…Yah! Come on girl!
As you can see, it’s a very, very, very, very, very, very, very close race.
Yes, it’s neck and neck.
In English, if two people in a competition are level and have the same chance of winning, we say ‘it’s neck and neck’.

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