English in a Minute: Phrases with stone
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC
4.5 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Listen to a BBC Learning English podcast while you commute to work – it kills two birds with one stone! Listen to Georgie to learn more phrases that use the word 'stone'.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to BBC learning English.com. |
| 0:04.7 | What are some useful phrases to use with stone? |
| 0:10.1 | A plan or a decision can be set in stone. |
| 0:14.0 | That means you can't change it. It's fixed. |
| 0:17.4 | Sorry, the essay deadline is set in stone. |
| 0:20.7 | No exceptions. If you kill two is set in stone, no exceptions. |
| 0:22.7 | If you kill two birds with one stone, you achieve two things at once. |
| 0:28.1 | I listen to podcasts while I'm commuting to work. |
| 0:30.9 | It kills two birds with one stone. |
| 0:33.2 | If you leave no stone unturned, it means you look everywhere until you find something, |
| 0:39.3 | or try absolutely everything until you've achieved something. |
| 0:43.3 | The detectives promise to leave no stone unturned in their search for a suspect. |
| 0:48.3 | If something is a stone's throw away, it's a very short distance away. It's close. My new flat is just a |
| 0:56.9 | stone's throw away from work. I can walk there. Try to incorporate these phrases into your everyday life. |
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