idioms

Vocabulary: Skill Up!

Business Spotlight magazine offers a new vocabulary guide called Skill Up! In the guide, we also present a number of idioms that use the words “work” and “job”. Let’s see how well you know them. You’ll hear some sentences and we’ll ask you to complete them. Ready?

Redewendungen

The water industry

Are you surfing our site from home this week? If you are, we hope you're enjoying your break from work. In this exercise, we look at everyday expressions around the topic of water. We start with some useful idioms.

"Did Goldman Sachs help Greece to ___ the books?"

Fiddle, twiddle or nibble?

This is only a ____ for Greece's finanicial problems. I'm more worried about a STUPID scenario!

Stop-out, stopgap or stopover?

Communication idioms

Meetings can test your communication skills. In this test, we focus on idioms that are used to describe effective and ineffective communication.

idiomatische Redewendungen

Business Spotlight 2/2010

Here's an overview of our whole range of language-learning products, including Skill Up! — a new 24-page vocabulary guide that comes with each issue of the magazine. Learn key words, idioms and expressions — and how to learn vocabulary effectively.

Quiz: "leg" or "foot"?

"I started off on the right _____ this year and cycled to the office!"

"The project has been put on the ___________ until we find new investors."

Back door, back burner or back office?

Earth

A two-week meeting of nearly 200 world leaders started on 7 December. Top of the agenda is the search for a plan to save the Earth. Is it possible that so many leaders will be able to agree on a plan that will make a difference to the Earth?

ganz oben auf der Tagesordnung stehen

tw. bewirken bei