Know the score
Learning English Conversations
BBC
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🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Learn a phrase about understanding the situation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from BBC Learning English. To find out more, visit our website. |
| 0:06.9 | Hello and welcome to the English we speak. You are Rob. |
| 0:10.8 | And you are Fay Fay, and if I may say so, what a great presenter you are. |
| 0:16.5 | Oh, thank you very much. You're welcome. And you are so talented. I don't think you need me here to present this program. |
| 0:24.3 | Hmm, why is Rob being so nice to me? |
| 0:28.3 | Uh, so perhaps I could go now and you just carry on by yourself. |
| 0:33.0 | Oh, hold on, I know the score. |
| 0:37.0 | What? You know the score already, but the match doesn't start for another 30 minutes. |
| 0:42.0 | What are you talking about? The match doesn't start for another 30 minutes? |
| 0:43.0 | What are you talking about? |
| 0:45.0 | I just meant I know what you're trying to do. |
| 0:48.0 | If we say we know the score, it means we understand the situation well, or we know what is really going on. |
| 0:55.0 | Let's hear some examples of this phrase. |
| 1:02.0 | You know the score, You can't leave work until you finished all your tasks. |
| 1:07.0 | I think she knew the score. She didn't have the right grades to get into university. |
| 1:15.0 | We know the score, money is tight, so we won't be getting a bonus this year. |
| 1:20.0 | In this program from BBC Learning English, we're using the phrase |
| 1:27.7 | know the score, which means we understand the situation or we know what is really going on. |
| 1:34.0 | It has nothing to do with football and Rob I know the score with you. |
| 1:39.0 | You want me to finish this program on my own so you can leave early. |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah, it's true, Faye Faye. I do need to be somewhere. |
| 1:48.0 | And this has got something to do with football. |
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