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Hello folks and welcome to another edition of Luke's English podcast.

Now the last podcast I did was about music festivals so I thought that I'd stick with the theme of music this time

and teach you some music idioms. Now just a little note about idioms of course

an idiom is a kind of fixed expression that is used a lot in general

conversation. Now they're quite tricky because the meaning is difficult to understand.

If you try to understand the individual words one by one in an idiom, you probably won't understand the idiom.

It's very difficult because the idiom as a whole has a different meaning to the individual words.

So for example, if you look in a dictionary and try and

understand the the expression word by word you won't understand anything. It's got a

different meaning as a fixed expression. So I'm going to teach you some idioms that are

sort of related to music in some way and I've selected these ones myself hand-picked them to make sure that I was teaching you

idioms which are actually quite useful because some of the idioms that you

learn are not really useful. There are so many that some of them are

not used very often or are a bit old-fashioned. But I think these ones are okay. So the idioms I'm going to teach you and you'll be able to read all of these

idioms with transcripts on the webpage. So the idioms are this and I'm not going to tell you what they mean yet

First I'm just going to read the idioms to you and then I'm going to read you little dialogues that include the idioms and then

the idioms mean. Okay, so the idioms then one by one.

First one is, it rings a bell, or that rings a bell,

right?

Next one is to pull out all the stops, to pull out all the stops, to pull out all the stops, to pull out all the stops.

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