2022.07.01

전화영어

 

vice 

- used as part of the title of particular positions. The person who holds one of these positions is next below in authority to the person who holds the full position and can act for them:

 

the vice captain of the team

 

- a moral fault or weakness in someone's character:

 

Greed, pride, envy, and lust are considered to be vices.

My one real vice (= bad habit) is chocolate.

 

cheap

- used to describe goods that are both low in quality and low in price:

I bought some cheap wine for cooking with.

 

- unwilling to spend money:

He's so cheap he didn't even buy me a card for my birthday.

 

- If you describe the way a person is dressed as cheap, you mean that it is very obvious that they are trying to sexually attract other people.

 

- unpleasant and unkind:

I wish you'd stop making cheap jokes about my friends.

 

BBC Learning English - The English We Speak

 

go round in circles

- If you do something for a long time without achieving any results and you always come back to the same problem, then you can describe the situation as 'going round in circles'.

 

The politicians talked for hours but they couldn't come to an agreement; they were just going round in circles.
I've been going round in circles trying to find the right person to talk to about getting a refund on my ticket but with no success. I give up!
Because we didn't have the data from the survey, we went round in circles discussing the same old problems.

 

shedload

- a lot

- a shedload of something is a very large amount or number of something

- we can also use the 'shedload' or 'shedloads' without 'of' if it's clear what we're talking about.

 

Jim gets paid shedloads of money, so don't worry, I'm sure he can afford it.

We don't need to go out for dinner tonight; we've got a shedload of food in the fridge!

 

He spent shedloads on his new car.

I can't go anywhere. I've got shedloads to do today.