Hello everybody. My name is Andrew. Hey guys, I'm Suzanne. And this is the

Kulips English podcast. Hello friends, welcome back to Culeps. This is Ketchword, the series designed

for intermediate and advanced English learners and here we teach you idioms, phrasoverbs, and helpful expressions

that can take your English listening and speaking to the next level.

Joining me today is my co-host Suzanne.

Hello Suzanne, how are you?

I'm great Andrew, thanks and hello to all the listeners out there.

You know Suzanne, I was talking to one of my friends last week

and she was telling me about a problem that she's having at work these days.

And the problem is that essentially she's overworked. She's got a lot on her plate,

a lot of work to do and just not enough time to do it unfortunately.

I think a lot of us have probably been in that situation before

where we feel like we have to work extra hard in order to get all of our tasks completed.

Yeah, exactly. I know I've been in that situation before as well and it's no fun,

but there is one little silver lining in this story and that is that my friend's

situation is the inspiration for this episode and so today everyone in this

lesson Suzanne and I are going to teach you two idiomatic expressions that we can use

when we're talking about having to really work hard or really put in a lot of effort in order to do something and those two expressions are

bend over backwards and move mountains.

Awesome yeah these expressions and move mountains.

Awesome, yeah, these expressions both imply making a great effort,

although they have slightly different nuances.

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