Talk about English - Politics, language and slang pt.3 | Текст песни

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Jackie: This is Talk About English, coming to you from the BBC World
Service in London. I'm Jackie Dalton, with me is Callum Robertson
and our two guests today, Juliette Perreard, an English learner and
Stephen Fox, international law specialist.

Callum: We've been talking about politics and slang. And we'll be back on the
subject of slang soon, but first Stephen Fox, we've brought you here to
talk about an area of politics and diplomacy where language use and
interpretation of language is very important and that's international law.

All: (discuss)

Jackie: Now it's time for a little challenge for Juliette. We have a number of
slang expressions which we'd like you to explain if you can. Here's the
first one:

Bloke - Man.
Oooh, look at that bloke over there, he's rather nice!

Loo - Toilet.
Ooop! Excuse me! I must pop to the loo
Knackered - Tired

I hardly slept last night, I'm absolutely knackered!
Codswallop – Rubbish, as in 'He's talking codswallop!'
That's absolute codswallop – I don't believe a word of it!

Muppet - A foolish or stupid person,
You muppet – you've made a complete mess of this!

Raining cats and dogs – Heavy rain.
It's raining cats and dogs outside. I must remember to take my brolly

Jackie: Now it's time for Callum and Stephen to show off their knowledge of
the English language. These questions are a bit tougher and they're all
related to politics and slang.

hatchet job – A ruthless effort to destroy something or someone
They did a hatchet job on the minister's reputation.

A champagne socialist – someone who claims to support socialist, working class
values in public, but who leads a very different, comfortable private life.

Jackie: That's all for this week. Thank you to our guests Stephen and Juliette.
From all of us for now from the World Service in London, it's
'Goodbye!

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