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This is the English we speak with me, Fay Faye.

And me, Neil.

Wow, Faye, you look really busy. Do you need any help? Oh no thanks I'm just looking at

prices for the BBC Learning English team dinner. I was thinking about going to that fancy

restaurant near the office.

Brilliant! I've been wanting to try that place.

It looks amazing!

Hmm, well, you might have to wait a bit longer.

It's really expensive and we can't afford it.

Ah, have you asked the boss to see if the budget can be increased so we can go?

Good idea. I'll see if there's any wiggle room on the amount of money we can spend.

I'm sorry what wiggle room?

Yes we use the expression wiggle room to talk about how much we can change something like a timetable or budget to allow us to do something else.

So I want to see how likely it is we can get a bigger budget.

Great. Well, good luck with that. it is we can get a bigger budget.

Great, well good luck with that.

We'll listen to some examples while you make the call.

The company had no more wiggle room in the marketing budget to employ new actors.

I'm afraid I don't have much wiggle room in my schedule to meet you today.

How much wiggle room do we have on the salary we're offering? He's

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