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This week we're having an unscripted chat about what we would do if we won the lottery! This week's idiom is 'Crawling out of the woodwork.'
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This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week, we're tackling the thorny issue of prepositions associated with location - and the Idiom of the Week is 'At the drop of a hat.'
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You can find us on italki at 
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
We also used the following sounds from Freesound:
microwave ding.WAV by samplecat
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
FX swanee whistle up.wav by v0idation
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
greenfinch f.wav by ERH
This work is licensed under the Attribution License.

In this episode we're considering some more of those little confusions of pronunciation and grammar that come up every now and then. Sylvia is giving her friend Mabel some much-needed encouragement in this week's Idiom of the Week, which is 'Butterflies in the stomach.'
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You can find us on italki at 
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
We also used the following sounds from Freesound:
audience.wav by pyoorgoodshed
This work is licensed under the Attribution License.
knocks on interior wood bathroom door quick desperate.wav by kyles
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
Opening Closing bathroom door.wav by Omar Alvarado
This work is licensed under the Attribution License.

This week, we're examining the very British habit of apologising - and the little old ladies find themselves in 'a sorry state of affairs', this week's idiom…
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You can find us on italki at 
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
We also used the following sounds from Freesound:
cafe - takk, northern quarter, manchester by AntonyBK
and
Thunder Clap OWB KY 441x16.wav by Dave Welsh
These works are licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.

This week, we're all about abbreviations - and our intrepid detectives, Davidson and Roberts are illustrating the idiom 'On the QT' while on a stakeout.
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You can find us on italki at 
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
...and this is the Davidson and Roberts theme:
Hidden Agenda by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3872-hidden-agenda
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We also used the following sound from Freesound:
cafe - takk, northern quarter, manchester by AntonyBK
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.
 
 
 

This week, Mabel and Sylvia are helping us come up with some more phrasal verbs to do with health matters. The Idiom of the Week 'A Bitter Pill to Swallow.'
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You can find us on italki at 
https://www.italki.com/alisondaviskurley or https://www.italki.com/davekurley.
This podcast uses the following music as the opening and closing themes, and also for incidental music:
Bright Wish by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3458-bright-wish
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
We also used the following sound from Freesound:
cafe - takk, northern quarter, manchester by AntonyBK
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 0 License.