Left, right, and centre

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Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

If you do something left, right, and centre does that mean you do it everywhere? Rob's being doing just that but what's he been doing it with?

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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 and hello I'm
0:13.4	welcome to the English we speak I'm Faye and hello I'm Neil.
0:17.0	Hey Neil I couldn't help overhearing just now but Rob says he's bought a new sports car.
0:23.6	Yes, a red one with one of those tops that folds back.
0:27.3	It must have cost him a fortune.
0:29.8	Oh, you know Rob.
0:30.8	He spends money left, right and centre. You mean he spends it in all directions? That's right. So he spends money in
0:38.3	Oxford Street to the left, Bond Street to the right, and sometimes at Oxford Circus in the centre?
0:45.6	I didn't mean physically on the left, right and centre.
0:50.1	It's a phrase that just means everywhere or all the time.
0:53.6	Ah, got it.
0:54.9	I suppose left, right and centre is everywhere.
0:58.5	In all directions.
0:59.8	That's correct.
1:00.8	And there are examples left, right and center, such as these. closed. It's been losing customers left, right and centre over the past couple of years.
1:15.7	You can't miss that new film.
1:17.6	They've been promoting it left right and centre.
1:21.4	That's left, left, right and center, a phrase to mean everywhere or all the time.
1:29.6	So how does Rob afford a new sports car?
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