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[3-2-Learn] - FORO, TO CLAM UP, SEND SOMEONE TO COVENTRY

[3-2-Learn] - FORO, TO CLAM UP, SEND SOMEONE TO COVENTRY

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Lipiec 2023  | www.prolang.pl

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Hello Gość, "Welcome to the Prolang Newsletter! You'll find three all new and useful pieces of vocabulary here. The first is a buzzword, a new, trendy word. The second is a phrasal or a prepositional phrase. The third is a business word or a business idiom."

FORO

DEFINITION: Fear Of Running Out

 

TRANSLATION: lęk przed tym, ??e czego? nam zabraknie

 

EXAMPLE: In the height of the Covid pandemic, many people experienced FORO over basic items such as toilet paper.

 

TRANSLATION: W szczycie pandemii Covida, wielu ludzi do?wiadczy?o lęku, ??e zabraknie im podstawowych rzeczy takich, jak np. papier toaletowy.

 


TO CLAM UP

DEFINITION: to say nothing

 

TRANSLATION: nic nie m??wić, nabrać wody w usta

 

EXAMPLE: I tried to get some information out of John but he completely clamed up.

 

TRANSLATION: Chcia?em wyciągnąć jakie? informacje od Johna, ale on nabra? wody w usta.

 


SEND SOMEONE TO COVENTRY

DEFINITION: to ignore someone because of what they said or did

 

TRANSLATION: wykluczyć kogo? z powodu jego/jej s???w lub zachowania

 

EXAMPLE: Joanna told the manager about our little error so we sent her to Coventry.

 

TRANSLATION: Joanna powiedzia?a menagerowi o naszym b?ędzie, więc wykluczyli?my ją z naszego grona.

 

REVISION TIME

Do you remember this word from a previous newsletter?

 

 

TO GET UP TO

 

DEFINITION: to do something amusing or inappropriate

 

TRANSLATION:  przeskrobać co?

 

EXAMPLE: I have to visit our Spanish office and chceck what they got up to.

 

TRANSLATION: Muszę odwiedzić nasze hiszpa?skie biuro i sprawdzić co oni tam przeskrobali.


 

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