It's a steal!

Learning English Conversations

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Education, Language Learning

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Have you paid very little money for something normally expensive? Learn an expression for when you find a bargain

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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 from the BBC.
0:12.0	Hello, this is the English we speak with me, Faye, and me Neil. Hello.
0:17.6	Neil, what a nice mobile phone you have with you.
0:22.2	Wow, very flashy gold colour. It's brilliant. The
0:27.8	battery lasts a long time. It's got loads of memory. It has plenty of room for apps, pictures, videos and the camera is great too.
0:36.6	It must have cost you a fortune.
0:39.1	No, not at all.
0:40.4	It was a steal.
0:42.4	Neil? Oh, you shouldn't. It was a steal. Neil.
0:43.0	Oh, you shouldn't have done that.
0:46.0	You're such a nice guy.
0:48.0	Why would you do something like that?
0:51.0	You could have taken out a long to buy or something but what do you mean?
0:57.0	They're here they've come for you.
1:05.0	No, that was just a sound effect. I'm just having a joke with you. I'm not going to be arrested.
1:11.0	In English, when you say something's a steel, you mean it's a bargain, so
1:15.9	cheap that it's almost as if you haven't paid anything for it.
1:19.7	Oh, you're so naughty.
1:22.0	Sorry, Faye, it was just a joke.
1:24.3	Let's hear examples of how this expression is used.
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