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Hello and welcome to the English we speak. I'm Faye

and with me is Neil. Hi there. Uh, Neil, what are you doing sitting down?

I'm presenting this program like we always do sitting in a chair?

You clearly don't know about our new healthy working policy. No more sitting down.

Standing up is better for you.

Oh, all right then. I'll stand up if I have to.

Oh, Neil, no drinking coffee in the studio, health and safety. Obviously you missed our meeting

about the new healthy working policy. You are clearly out of the loop.

What?

There's a loop I have to stand in now.

No, Neil, you missed our meeting where we discussed the new healthy working policy.

And now you're out of the loop. It means you don't have or are not aware of the knowledge

a particular group of people do have. In other words, you've missed out on something.

Oh, I hate missing out on things.

We better hear some examples so I can be in the loop about this English phrase.

I've been out of the loop since I went on a holiday. I didn't know Gita and Bilal had got engaged.

They kept me out of the loop, so it was a shock to discover that they were moving our sales team to Birmingham.

Please keep me in the loop if you have any more discussions about the building work.

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