Catch Word #268 – I cracked under the pressure

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Have you ever been so nervous or stressed about a presentation that you forgot everything you had prepared? Have you ever performed well during sports practice but made mistakes during the big game? There are lots of great idioms to describe these nightmare scenarios in English and, in this episode, Andrew and Kassy introduce listeners to two of the most common ones: to crack under the pressure and can’t take/handle the heat. Fun facts One of the best things you can do with a heavy, stressful workload is to break your responsibilities into manageable tasks. Try the Pomodoro Technique to stay focused and avoid feeling overwhelmed. Work on a task for 25 minutes and then take a 5-minute break. Repeat this pattern three or four times, and then take a 15-minute break. You’ll be surprised at how much you can get done! Expressions included in the study guide To crack under [the] pressure Can’t take/handle the heat [One’s] mind goes blank To egg on Gut feeling To suck the joy out of Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Khwanchai Phanthong (pexels.com)

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone. My name's Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the
0:07.6	Culeps English podcast. Welcome back to Kuleps. This is Ketchword, the series for intermediate and
0:18.0	advanced English learners where we teach you idioms, phrasoverbs, or
0:22.3	expressions that will help improve your English
0:25.0	listening and speaking.
0:27.2	Now today I'm joined by my co-host, Cassie.
0:30.4	Hello, Cassie.
0:31.9	Hey Andrew and hi listeners, hope you're all doing well.
0:35.0	Cassie, I have to ask.
0:37.0	I've got a question for you here right off the bat.
0:41.0	And the question is related to stress. I'm wondering have you ever been so
0:46.1	stressed out that you thought there was just no way that you could deal with the
0:51.5	stress? Totally Andrew, especially during this time of year.
0:56.0	It's kind of like the crunch time in the school year,
1:00.0	third quarter, lots of projects and activities and stuff like that, and I'm just feeling
1:07.1	the pressure a little bit, you know?
1:09.6	Stress and pressure can get to everybody, I think, and I like that expression that you just
1:14.2	use their Cassie crunch time crunch time
1:17.3	crunch time means a very important time right when you really have to focus and
1:21.7	get things done before a deadline.
1:24.4	It's usually like that period of time right before a deadline
1:28.4	when you're just super busy and focused on achieving that goal. And I think it's nice that you brought that up because today we are actually going to be talking about two idiomatic expressions that are related to stress and pressure. The first one is to crack under
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