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What is ideating and what is an ideation. These words are becoming popular in business today, but they are not as new as you might think. We’ll talk about how to use them on this episode.

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Do you want people to confirm what you say or just trust you? You can use this phrase either way. We’ll talk about how on this episode.

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This can be quite a strong request, but you can also use it among friends or close colleagues. What does it mean and how can you use it? We take about this expression this week.

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Have these two phrases confused you in the past? They are so close but the meaning is so different. How do you use “Get used to” and “used to do”, and how can you recognize them.

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This word, “trolling” has gotten a lot of attention recently. But not every meaning is bad. Here are some different ways you might use trolling at work.

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What happens when your boss or colleague accuses you of doing something you don’t remember doing? Or not doing something you are sure you did do? Are you being gaslighted? We talk about gaslighting i…

“Cut” is a word that just keeps coming up in English idioms. It means so much that sometimes it feels like it means nothing! So let’s look at three idioms using “cut.” All three have completely diffe…

Are we in the office or in the woods? What do crickets and ghosts have to do with business English? Do I hear crickets now? Are you ghosting me? I’ll answer all these questions in this episode!

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Do you get confused by these two options? Which one is the former, which one is the latter? What does former and latter even mean? We’ll discuss this and make it a little clear in this episode.

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More corporate speak? Well, yes, this idiom is from corporate speak too, and you may hear it in business. But this one might not be easy to understand. We’ll talk about the meaning and usage of “blue…

Can you recognize sarcasm when you hear it? What is sarcasm and why do we use it? We talk about sarcasm in this week’s episode.

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What does is mean when someone says they are adulting? And when did the noun “adult” become a verb anyway? We talk about this and 2 other nouns turned into verbs in English.

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Corporate-speak is loved and hated in business. We’re almost finished with a 4 part series on corporate speak. In this final week we’ll talk about pivoting, adding value and burning and building brid…

Corporate-speak is loved and hated in business. We’re in the middle of a 4 part series on corporate speak. This week we’ll talk about greenlighting something, boiling the ocean and bandwidth, all key…

Corporate-speak is loved and hated in business. We’re in the middle of a 4 part series on corporate speak. This week we’ll talk about moving the needle, scaling and key learnings.

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Corporate-speak is loved and hated in business. In the Next few episodes we’ll talk about some common corporate speak phrases. This week we’ll talk about tabling, circling back and touching base.

Has someone told you they get your gist? Could you get the gist of that? Or do you know what gist means? We’ll talk about gist in this episode.

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One of the hardest things to decide in English is whether to use which or that for your relative clause. We’ll talk about some ways to help make that decision in this episode.

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What is swag and what is merch? These are two business words that are similar but a little different. We’ll talk about that in this episode.

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The phrasal verb “Catch up” does a lot of work in English, In this episode we talk about 5 ways we use it every day!

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