The English We Speak: From the get-go

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Here's an expression that means 'from the beginning'. [Image: Getty] Find a full transcript for this episode and more programmes to help you with your English at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the-english-we-speak_2024/ep-240923

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak where we explain phrases used by fluent English
0:05.8	speakers so that you can use them as well.
0:08.7	I'm Fay Faye Faye and I'm here with Beth.
0:10.9	Hi everyone and hi Faye Faye, how are you?
0:13.5	I'm very well, thank you.
0:15.0	The expression we're looking at in this program is from the get-go.
0:19.4	I could say I've presented for BBC Learning English from the get-go.
0:24.3	Ah yes, from the get-go means right from the beginning so you have presented in this job
0:30.7	ever since you started.
0:31.8	I have and we can use this for anything that has a
0:36.0	beginning. For example I recently went on holiday and I had a perfect holiday from the get-go.
0:44.0	Great, sounds wonderful.
0:45.0	Beth, do you have an example?
0:47.0	Yeah, so I went to the cinema recently and this film, the opening scene was so funny and the whole film was just
0:55.1	hilarious from the get-go. You'll have to tell me the name of the film. I will but
1:00.1	first here are some more examples of the expression from the get-go.
1:08.0	I just have a really good friendship with him.
1:10.0	It was obvious when we first met that we were going to get on well from the get-go.
1:15.0	I took a flight the other day and there was a lot of turbulence from the get-go.
1:20.0	It was absolutely terrifying.
1:22.0	I read this book about Wizards and Elves. I loved it from
1:26.2	the get-go. Now we can also say right from the get-go when we put right in front of an
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