Play a blinder
Learning English Conversations
BBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Doing something amazing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Sean here. Thank you for downloading the English we speak. |
| 0:04.6 | We have just released our first BBC Learning English app. |
| 0:08.8 | It's amazing! All of your favorite content in one easy to use app. |
| 0:15.0 | And best of all, it's free to use and free to download |
| 0:20.0 | from Google Play and the iOS App Store. Just search for BBC Learning English. Download |
| 0:27.1 | it today and take us with you wherever you go. Thanks for listening. Now back |
| 0:32.4 | to the English we speak. |
| 0:34.0 | The English we speak. |
| 0:37.0 | From BBC Learning English. |
| 0:40.0 | com Welcome to the English we speak. I'm Rob and I'm live here with the Hero of the Day, |
| 0:48.4 | Faye Faye! Thanks Rob, hello everyone. Now let's talk about that fantastic performance. |
| 0:55.1 | BBC Learning English FC were two goals down and then you came along and scored three times |
| 1:01.1 | in the last ten minutes. How do you feel? |
| 1:04.0 | Well, it was really awed down to the team. I was just the right person in the right place today. |
| 1:10.0 | A very modest answer, but the crowd are going wild about you just listen |
| 1:15.8 | It's fair to say fe fe fey. You played a blinder |
| 1:20.6 | Just doing my job though as a proud BBC Learning English FC player, there's one |
| 1:27.1 | thing I would like to say to the audience. Of course, go ahead. I'd like to explain that phrase you used to play a blinder. To play a blinder is a phrase |
| 1:38.0 | used to describe an amazing display of skill usually in sports but also in other areas in life. Yes not only did |
| 1:47.0 | you play a blinder in the football game today Faye you played a blinder with that definition. Listen to the crowd. |
| 1:55.0 | I'd like to add a little more Rob. Why do we use the word blinder? Well imagine you're watching a dazzling performance. |
| 2:06.2 | Something so good it seems to shine brightly. The idea is that it's so shiny, so dazzling, it could cause someone watching to go blind. |
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