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Hello and welcome to the English we speak with me, Faye,

and me, Roy. We may sound a little different. That's because we're not able to record in our normal studios during the coronavirus outbreak.

Roy, have you heard about Rob?

No, what about Rob?

Well, you know that Rob's been wearing a long sleeve

t-shirt recently?

It's because the other night he went out with some friends.

Well, he lost dare and now he's got a tattoo of a panda on a skateboard on his arm.

Faye, he's probably really embarrassed about that.

You shouldn't gossip.

I'm not.

But you always love it when I spill the tea.

Oh, you spill some tea while recording. That's

dangerous when we're surrounded by laptops and microphones. No Roy, spilling the

tea means to gossip.

I'm going to spill the tea some more right after these examples.

I shouldn't spill the tea, but if you heard that Bob and Susan are dating

come on spill the tea tell me what you know about Derek I'll spill the tea there's going to be a huge party and no one has invited Peter.

This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're talking about the

expression spill the tea which means to gossip. So come on Faye Faye

spill the tea you know everything that happens in the office. How did you know about

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