Catch Word #266 – Not make a dent in it

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Are you the type of person who gets work done quickly and easily? Sometimes we may work on a task for a long time but still not make a lot of progress on it. In this episode, Kassy and Andrew teach two expressions you can use in situations where you’re stuck or not making progress. These expressions are to not make a dent in something and to go round in circles. Catch Word is the Culips vocabulary series for intermediate and advanced English learners who want to improve their English fluency. You’ll learn idioms and useful expressions to help you have more natural-sounding conversations. Fun facts The tallest rollercoaster in the world is Six Flags’ Kingda Ka rollercoaster. It first opened in 2005 and is 456 feet tall (almost 139 metres) at its highest point. Expressions included in the study guide To not make a dent in (something) To go round in circles To be tapped To feel (someone’s) pain To take over a contract To come to a consensus Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Opening music from Pixabay.com Image: Ran Berkovich (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone. My name's Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the
0:08.3	Culeps English podcast. Last.
0:19.0	Welcome back to Kuleps, everyone. This is Catch Word, the series for intermediate and advanced English learners, where we teach you idioms or phrasoverbs or expressions
0:29.0	that will help improve your English listening and speaking. Today I'm joined by my co-host
0:34.2	Cassie. Hello Cassie. Hey Andrew and hi listeners I hope you're all doing well and I'm
0:41.1	happy to be here back with Andrew to teach you guys all another vocabulary lesson.
0:47.0	Andrew, can you tell everyone what our theme is for today?
0:51.0	Yes, I sure can.
0:53.3	So guys, today, Cassie and I are going to teach you two expressions that are great to know and good
0:59.6	ones to add to your vocabulary.
1:02.2	They are both about not making progress. So imagine when you're
1:08.8	working hard towards achieving a goal, but you're not actually moving forward or getting close to achieving that goal.
1:17.8	In that kind of situation, then you can use these expressions and they are to not make a dent in something and to go
1:27.8	round in circles and of course we'll break them down and give you more usage details and share some examples
1:34.9	with you in just a moment.
1:38.0	But before we do that, we just want to let you know that there is a transcript and study guide for this episode available to all
1:46.5	QLips members. We've designed the study guide to teach you the important parts of this
1:52.3	lesson that will help build your English fluency and help your English sound natural.
1:58.0	To learn about all the details and to become a Qulips member and get the study guide, visit Q-Lips.com.
2:07.2	And of course we also want to say a huge thank you to all of our fabulous Q-LUS members out there who support the work that we do here and keep allowing us to make brand new episodes and English lessons each and every week. We really do appreciate your support guys and we couldn't do it without
2:26.9	you so thank you so much. And now Cassie with that said, let's start this lesson.
2:34.3	And the first expression that we're going to teach
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