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Learning English Conversations

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🗓️ 27 January 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Harry and Feifei talk about a common colloquial expression for when things are intense.

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:09.0	From BBC learning English.
0:11.0	com. Hello and welcome to See Learning English. English. . .
0:13.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak.
0:16.0	I'm Faye, and joining me is Harry.
0:19.0	Hello, and the expression we're going to look at today, which we hear a lot in colloquial speech, is full on.
0:25.1	So Faye, did you have a good weekend?
0:27.4	It was quiet.
0:28.4	I stayed home most of the time.
0:30.2	I watched a couple of old black and white films with my grandmother on Sunday.
0:35.0	That was the highlight. How about you?
0:37.0	Well, your weekend sounds quite relaxed.
0:40.0	My weekend wasn't like your weekend at all. I went to the launch party of a new bar on Friday,
0:46.0	that was quite a night. Then on Saturday my friends took me to a nightclub that went on until morning.
0:52.0	Wow that sounds exciting. a nightclub that went on until morning.
0:52.6	Wow, that sounds exciting.
0:55.0	Clubing though, aren't you a bit old for that sort of thing?
0:59.0	No, I'm not too old, but to be honest, it was a bit full on.
1:04.0	Full on what do you mean?
1:06.0	Well the music the dancing the drinking the energy
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