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Spoken English Course Day 18

Spoken English Course Day 18

Date: Mar 14 2011

Topic: Speaking

Author: andylu2

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I'm back again!

I've got another cool phrase of the day to make your English unbelievable. 

I hope you get my spoken English PDF ebook series.  I think you'll really enjoy them if you haven't already checked them out. 

Anyway, here is the phrase of the day:

"Take a shot in the dark"

This again is very simple and very useful.  It's used in today's world and not just some kind of old grandmother type saying.  (I love grandmothers but you know what I mean)

Basically the phrase means, "take a guess".

To help you remember, I'll try to explain it to you.  In this phrase, a "shot" is a gun shot.  If you are trying to shoot someone, which of course is not a very nice thing to do, it would be very hard to do it if there was no light.  You couldn't see what or who you were shooting at.  It would be a guess.  You would just fire the gun and hope.  

So if someone says something like, "So, how old to you think he is?"

The other person could say, "I have no idea"

Then the first person could say, "Who cares, just take a shot in the dark".

This if often used for fun when you are trying to force someone to guess something.

If you haven't seen my other lessons, check out my first one and keep following if you "like" them.  The comments and the "likes" are a huge help.  Thanks guys.

I'll keep making these lessons every day so "stay tuned".  That means, pay attention.  Here is the first lesson of the free Online Spoken English Course

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sara70

sara70

Saudi Arabia

As luvik says almost it’s familiar among my country with the phrase “Try UR luck”
Thanks teacher
As always U R the best

07:51 PM Mar 24 2011 |

luvik palestine

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

And We can say "Try ur luck" Hehehe

So, ur phrase is Cooool and i like it , Going up !

12:07 AM Mar 18 2011 |

lynn629

lynn629

China

useful and easy to get it's meaning  

thanks andy! 

02:05 AM Mar 16 2011 |

andylu2

andylu2

Canada

Thanks everyone.  It seems like everyone totally understands this phrase.  Awesome.  I hope you use it the next time you have a chance.

10:09 AM Mar 15 2011 |

freedom boy

Oman

great teacher>>>

thanks alot.

08:02 AM Mar 15 2011 |

murad ali

murad ali

Yemen

good shot lesson -

05:20 AM Mar 15 2011 |

BonBony

BonBony

Japan

Thank you very much Andy =)

03:38 PM Mar 14 2011 |

andylu2

andylu2

Canada

Thanks guys.  I've got another good one coming up tomorrow!<!-Session data->

03:27 PM Mar 14 2011 |

Jungmi

Jungmi

South Korea

I really don't know what else to say.  Thanks and nice work!<!-Session data->

09:21 AM Mar 14 2011 |

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