Hey there everyone, how are you, how is it going, my name is Andrew and you're listening to the

Q-Lup's English podcast. I'm all by myself today, I don't have a co-host joining me. I hope that's all right with you, but it's good to be back here with you

anyways to start off another week of English learning and English study on the right foot.

Have you heard that expression before?

To start something off on the right foot?

It means to make a good and correct start at doing something,

you know, to start something properly from the very very beginning.

So interestingly, the right actually means correct. It doesn't mean the direction as in the opposite of left. It means the correct and the proper way to do something.

Speaking of opposites, in fact, this expression does also have an opposite version.

So of course we can get off on the right foot when we do something, but we can also get off on the wrong foot. Can you guess what that means? If you get off on the wrong foot, it means to do something poorly or incorrectly from the very starts.

And often we use this to talk about relationships with people.

So for example, if you meet someone for the first time

and from the very start of your relationship like the very first day that you meet

someone if that relationship is awkward or not very good, then you could

say that you got off on the wrong foot with that person. I don't know, maybe you've gotten off on the wrong foot with someone before. I actually had a boss once who I got off on the wrong foot with.

Believe it or not, and it's not really the kind of person that you want to get off on the wrong foot with, right? Your boss, but I think that boss just didn't like me very much from the very first time he met me I'm not sure why but sometimes life's just like that isn't it?

Anyways everyone today I'm here to help you get your English studies off on the right foot this week.

We want to start off on the right foot.

And I think you're already doing a great job.

You're doing some English listening practice right now, so this is great, this is perfect.

And if you're new to the Q-Lips English podcast, I want to say a big welcome, it's great to have you here.

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