Fill your boots
Learning English Conversations
BBC
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
If you are presented with an opportunity, how can you tell some to take advantage?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the English we speak with me Neil and me fey fey we're explaining the phrase |
| 0:05.6 | fill your boots it means take advantage of a situation or to get as much of something as possible. |
| 0:13.0 | Fill your boots. |
| 0:15.0 | It sounds like you're telling someone to load their boots with as much as they possibly can. |
| 0:21.0 | That's a very good way of looking at it, but it's not literal. So, for example, when a supermarket |
| 0:27.2 | has a big sale, you might want to fill your boots with all the deals. |
| 0:31.6 | Yes, you'll buy as much as you can. Or, Neil, you have an |
| 0:36.6 | amazing library, can I read some of your books? Fill your boots. Read as many as you |
| 0:41.7 | want. Let's have some examples. |
| 0:47.0 | I love my local restaurant. It has an all-you-can-eat buffet. You can fill your boots. |
| 0:55.0 | Have you watched any of our videos? |
| 0:58.0 | Feel your boots and learn as much as you can. |
| 1:02.0 | My mom is cooking Christmas dinner. She asked me to go to the supermarket to get food. She |
| 1:09.6 | told me to fill my boots and buy as much food as I want. |
| 1:19.0 | In this the English we speak we're looking at the phrase fill your boots it's used to tell someone to make |
| 1:25.2 | the most of an opportunity and take as much of something as they can speaking of which |
| 1:30.6 | have you seen those cakes at the BBC cafe? |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah they look amazing really colourful with so much cream. |
| 1:37.8 | Have you tried one? |
| 1:38.8 | Yes it was delicious. |
| 1:40.6 | I think it was one of the best things I've eaten in my life. |
| 1:44.0 | Oh stop you're making me hungry. |
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