To have a good nose (for something)
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Rob and Feifei sniff out a new phrase to learn
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from BBC Learning English. |
| 0:03.0 | To find out more, visit our website. |
| 0:06.0 | The English we speak. |
| 0:09.0 | From BBC learning English. |
| 0:12.0 | com. Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | hello, I'm |
| 0:17.0 | hello I'm Fay Faye and hello I'm Rob |
| 0:20.0 | What is that smell? |
| 0:21.0 | What is that smell? |
| 0:24.0 | Smell? I can't smell anything. |
| 0:27.0 | There's definitely a terrible smell, like moldy cheese. |
| 0:32.0 | What's in that bag, Rob? |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, this bag. You're right. It is cheese. Beautiful, delicious Stilton cheese in fact. Would you like some? No. So why have you got a bag of moldy cheese? |
| 0:47.2 | Well I stopped at the cheese shop on the way to the office and saw this cheese was half price and you probably know I have a good |
| 0:55.3 | nose for a bargain. I don't think so Rob. Judging by this cheese you have a bad nose |
| 1:01.3 | it smells awful. No Fay Fay when you have a bad nose. It smells awful. No, Faye, when you have a nose or even a good nose for something, |
| 1:08.0 | it's not about your sense of smell. It describes someone who is naturally good at finding and recognizing something. |
| 1:15.2 | In my case, finding a bargain. |
| 1:17.2 | I'm not so sure about that, Rob. Well, I have a good nose for finding examples. |
| 1:22.4 | So here they are. |
| 1:24.0 | We need to sell more newspapers, so we need to find a reporter with a good nose for a story. |
| 1:35.7 | I have a good nose for learning languages and was fluent in Spanish in just a year. |
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