“All movie ideas have been done to death. Please, go hone and play some cards.” To be done to death (informal idiom): if a particular style or subject is done to death, it is used or discussed so many times that it is not interesting any more This comic strip…
“Okay, which one of us do you think it getting the placebos?” Placebo (n) /pləˈsiː.bəʊ/ a substance given to someone who is told that it is a particular medicine, either to make them feel as if they are getting better or to compare the effect of the particular medicine when…
Transcript Newscaster: “And that’s the way we want you to think it is.” Vocabulary Newscaster (n.) /ˈnjuːzˌkɑː.stər/someone who reads out the reports on a television or radio news program Context This comic strip is making fun of the fact that some news channels don’t really report an objective version of…
Transcript Do you mind if I smoke? Do you mind if I text and drive? Vocabulary Do you mind if … = a useful phrase to ask something in a polite way. You could paraphrase it as: “Is that ok with you if …” to text (v.) /tekst/ to send…
Transcript Anesthetist: Count backwards from 100 and tell me when you can no longer feel your wallet. Vocabulary Anesthetist (n.) /əˈniːs.θə.tɪst/ a doctor who gives anaesthetic to people in hospital. Anesthesia (n.) /ˌæn.əsˈθiː.zi.ə/ before an operation, the patients are put to sleep. This is called anesthesia (= a state in which…
