English in a Minute: Phrases with 'baby'
Learning English Vocabulary
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4.5 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
If you sleep like a baby, do you sleep well or badly? Learn that here and more with Georgie
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. We all know what a baby is, |
| 0:12.9 | but do you know any phrases to use with baby? Do you think if you sleep like a baby, you sleep well or badly? |
| 0:24.1 | It means you sleep well. |
| 0:26.1 | I slept like a baby last night. |
| 0:28.3 | I feel so rested this morning. |
| 0:30.9 | A baby step is a small act of progress towards achieving a bigger goal. |
| 0:36.1 | Starting with 10 minutes of exercise a day |
| 0:38.3 | is a good baby step towards a healthier lifestyle. |
| 0:42.0 | If you baby someone, |
| 0:43.4 | you give them excessive care and attention, |
| 0:45.9 | as if they were a young child. |
| 0:48.2 | Stop babying him. |
| 0:49.8 | He's 18. |
| 0:50.9 | He needs to learn to make his own bed. |
| 0:53.8 | Lastly, if you have a baby face, it means you have a young-looking face. The actor can't play the part of an old, strict teacher. He has too much of a baby face to be taken seriously. Learning these phrases is a baby step towards achieving your goals in English. |
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