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The English we speak.

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Hello and welcome to learning English.

Hello and welcome to the English we speak. I'm Neil and joining me in the studio today is Helen.

Hello everyone. Oh it's nice to relax a bit. It's been a crazy few weeks. We had just four weeks to buy our new home.

Oh no, four weeks. That's not really much time.

I know. Luckily the lawyers were very helpful

we got the mortgage in time and we completed the purchase last weekend

ah so you finally got your own place? Yes, the money has exchanged hands and we got our keys yesterday.

Brilliant, so it's all done and dusted then?

No, we haven't had the chance to inspect the house yet.

Never mind dusting it.

I wasn't talking about dusting the house.

But I heard you ask if it was done and dusted.

Oh, it's just a way of saying everything's okay now, nothing else needs doing.

You've closed the deal on your house purchase, it's done and dusted.

So the phrase done and dusted, means work on something is completely finished.

When I heard you say dust, I thought you were asking me if I had cleaned the house.

No way, I had cleaned the house. No way I only got the keys yesterday. I haven't even

set foot in the house yet. Done and dusted is actually a very common expression. We hear it a lot at work and usually it means something

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