The English We Speak: Top-notch
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đď¸ 13 August 2024
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Summary
An expression that means something is very high quality.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the English we speak where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers |
| 0:07.0 | so that you can use them too. I'm Fay Fay Fay Faye and I'm here with Beth. |
| 0:11.6 | Hi everyone and hi Faye Faye how are you? I'm here with Beth. Hi everyone and hi Faye how are you and very well thank you. |
| 0:16.5 | In this programme we're actually going to learn a word that I heard you say when you were talking |
| 0:22.4 | about food. It was top notch. |
| 0:25.6 | Ah yes, top notch. So yeah, earlier I was talking about going to my brother's house where I had some amazing plant-based food. |
| 0:36.8 | I couldn't believe how tasty it was with no meat or dairy. |
| 0:40.8 | It was top-notch. |
| 0:42.2 | Oh, sounds lovely. I'd love to try it. So top notch is an |
| 0:47.2 | adjective that means something is of very high standard or high quality and we can use it for people too. I actually had some |
| 0:56.0 | top-notch food recently too. Oh what did you have? Well I went to an independent cafe around the corner from my house and they make the best carrot |
| 1:06.8 | cake. |
| 1:07.8 | It was top-notch, so delicious. |
| 1:09.8 | Mmm sounds really good. |
| 1:11.8 | Beth, can we use top-notch for things other than food? |
| 1:16.0 | Yes we can. |
| 1:17.0 | So for example I went to the theatre recently I saw a show in the West End and it was top notch. The singing was |
| 1:27.0 | phenomenal, the dancing was amazing, yeah it was really good. So it was top-notch. It was. Now here are some more examples of the adjective |
| 1:37.2 | top-notch. My friend wrote a book and asked me to read it. I thought it was going to be really bad, but actually |
| 1:47.8 | it was top-notch. I really enjoyed it. |
| 1:50.6 | I went to a conference last week and all of the presentations were absolutely top notch. |
| 1:56.0 | I've just got back from holiday. I was expecting the hotel to be pretty bad but it was actually top notch. |
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