Oct 252012
In this episode The Teacher introduces you to three idioms connected with roads:
1. Let’s hit the road.
2. Middle-of-the-road.
3. A long way down the road.
Transcript
Hello, I’m a very interesting and intelligent backpacker… man. And today, this road and I are going to teach you a thing or two about English idioms.
I bet you’ve never been taught by a road before.
Would you like to come on holiday with me? I’m going to my favourite country… Belgium.
Well, come on then. It’s time to hit the road. Argh!
In English, when it’s time to leave one place to go to another, we say ‘let’s hit the road’.
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