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Hi there. This is Harry. And welcome back to my podcast where I try to help you to understand and use English in a better way. So we try to improve your grammar by use of Fraser verbs, agents, expressions on DH, also happy with some basic structures so that your conversation, English and business English can improve. So what do I have for you in this particular podcast? We're going to talk a little bit about change on DH. We're talking about change. Specifically, we're going to look at the gym's about change in case of these are expressions that you can use in your English. So I'll give you the idiom on. Then I give you a definition and hopefully a good example off it. Okay, so let's start with the 1st 1 Break the mould. So, as I said, this is all about change. Okay. Um, old m o u l d. Is is something that you you you make to create a piece of pottery or a piece of sculpture that you pour in your your clay, whatever it is to create this shape. So this is the mould. So when we say to break the mould. We want to change our lives. We want to change the way we do things. Yeah, OK, so to break the mould, to destroy it, to completely change things. So we might have done things in a certain way for the last 10 15 20 years. But you decide you want to live life in a different perhaps better way. So you say off. Well, there, break the mould. We will. We will start on. We'll do things slightly better. We aren't. There's an expression in English. They broke the mould when they made him. This is quite an interesting expression, because what it means is that you are very different from everybody else. Andi. So if you you people believe you are a little bit perhaps strange or unusual or you do things in a strange or unusual way on that nobody does it any any different, then we are often said to have broken the mould. They broke the mould when they made him meaning, you know, when they saw what he looked like, they broke them all because they didn't didn't want any other people like that. Okay, so it's not very complimentary, okay? But it's not route, but it's its's, an old expression to break the mould. But when we want to break the mould, normally we just want to change the way we do. Things change the way we live. Change the work. We do change where we live or even perhaps everything to do with it with our life to break the mould. Next, a gym is to change your tune to change your tune, while a tune can be a musical tune, a piece of music cave so you recognise the tune. If you want to change the June, you put on another record. When we use this as a new gym. To change your tune means you change your opinion quite radically. Game. So, for example, let's say you have a particular view off your president or your prime minister, and it might be positive or negative. But then you change on Do you think the opposite. So let me give you an example. So for many weeks and months, you are very angry with your president because he had recommended certain significant changes in legislation that was going to affect you quite badly. Let's say pension legislation as President Macron had suggested the days pension change would take place in France or you were very angry with this. You could see that was going to cost you money. So you had a very firm opinion that you didn't trust this man. You didn't believe him, And you didn't want him to be a president on then? After several weeks, we've had this issue to do with the virus on The president has Bean speaking on the French television for several weeks and speaking very well on telling people honestly, what exactly is goingto happen on people saying, Oh, yeah, yeah, That's obviously this guy is good. So you see, yeah, yeah, he's really turned out to be a good president. Aiken, listen to him. I can believe him. And at least he's telling us honestly what is goingto happen. So somebody might say, Wow, you have changed your tune. You know, two months ago, you thought this was the worst president ever because he was going to he was advocating a change in pension legislation. Now you are praising him because of what he's doing during the time of the the virus and you say, Well, yeah, I believe in giving people a chance. Aunt, he has proved himself. So I'm happy to change my tune. So you have changed your tune. You've changed very significantly from one view. Negative to another view positive or from one view, positive to another view. Negative to change your tune next agent to reinvent the wheel to reinvent the wheel, and often we use it in the negative. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. You shouldn't reinvent the wheel. Don't reinvent the wheel. Of course, the wheel has been with us for centuries. One of the oldest devices that was ever created, it was used for taking Roman soldiers to battle. It was used for doing different wars to carry guns. It's been used with horses to carry. Hey, whatever it might be, the wheel has been with us for many, many centuries on when we say not to reinvent the wheel. If somebody's going to try and discover a new way of doing something, some new piece of technology, some new piece of equipment, somebody might say, Well, look, there's no point reinventing the wheel, meaning this already exists. Why don't you use what we've already got? So why waste time trying to think of something better. Why can we not just use what we've got? There is no point reinventing the wheel game, so somebody wants to find a better way of communicating. Now that we have the Corona virus, they will say or what? I'd love to find a way to talk to my customers and talk to my family. I should sit down and invent some application and somebody says, Well, what's the point of reinventing the wheel? It already exists. You have Skype, you have zoom, you have house party, you have Microsoft's teams. Whatever you have, there are many, many applications already there. Why waste your time reinventing the wheel when they already exist? So no need to reinvent the wheel. Next it Jim, to stick to your guns to stick to your guns means not to change your mind, no matter what happens. Okay, You stick to your guns. And so you come under a lot of pressure from somebody to change your opinion to change your mind and you say no. No, I'm going to stick to my guns. This is what I've decided. This is what I'm going to do. No matter what you do or say or say or do. That's it. Don't try to to persuade me. Otherwise I'm going to stick to my guns. Okay? So let me give you an example what that might mean. So there's bean a meeting in your office on DH. People are asking whether you want to work remotely or not On every said. Yeah, yeah, it's a great great opportunity. I thinkit's great. I wantto take youto enabled me to spend more time at home. I won't have to get up so early in the morning. I won't have to travel late in the evening, so yeah, I do that on you for some reason. Say no. No, I prefer to work in the office and somebody asked you why. And you see Well, first of all, my Internet Connexion is not so good. Secondly, I live in a small apartment and I don't think there's going to be much room and the Children would be running around. I won't get any privacy and the other say, Well, you know, you're going to take risks travelling in and out of the office. I don't care. I want I want to I want to work from the office. That's what I have decided. So you're going to stick to your guns unless somebody else tells you differently. So to stick to your guns means you're going to keep with your decision on DH. Under no circumstances are you going to change your mind. Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to what? I have decided to stick to my guns. Okay. And then the next idiom is to have a change of heart to have a change of heart. Well, in the previous one is I said to stick to your guns. Okay, so that's what you've decided. You're not going to work from home. You're going to continue to work in the office. But after two or three weeks, when you're sitting in your office and there's nobody there, you have nobody to share a coffee with. You have nobody to have a little bit of banter, a little bit of fun with. There's nobody to bounce ideas off. The office is a big place, and it's a lonely place when there's nobody there. So you have a change of heart. You decide. Okay, you win. I'll work from home. So you pick up your laptop. You pick up your your bits and pieces on you. You go off with your tail between your legs and you go home. And somebody asked you what happened. I had a change of heart. I realised that the office is not such a fun place without my work colleagues. It's not such a fun place to be. When there's nobody else there, I might as well be at home in the comfort of my own home. So, yes, I've had a change of heart. I have changed my opinion. So a change of heart is to do something differently than we than we did before. So we had one decision, our mind made up. But then we're either persuaded or we persuade ourselves and therefore we have a change of heart. Next, turn over a new leaf. So what do we do when we turn over a new leaf? Well, it's all about change. Okay, so now at the moment I'm looking out my window and I could see lots of new leaves on the trees because we're right in the middle of spring. Lots of nice light green leaves. Of course, they bring their own problems with pollen and other little issues. But apart from that, it's a very beautiful sight. So when we turn over a new leaf, we begin something different. Yeah. Okay, so turn over a new leaf might be that you decide to move to another city. You decide to change your job. You decide to change lots of things in your life because you're either stuck in a rut. You're stuck in the middle of something that you cannot get out off. You're a little bit bored. You're not going anywhere. Your career isn't developing the way you thought it wood, and therefore you have decided to turn over a new leaf, meaning to do something different. To have a fresh start like a spring spring. Clean your mind. Spring spring, clean your life to turn over a new leaf. So somebody asked. So where's Michael? Well, he's given up his job working in the library. He's gone back to university, is going to study politics. He's turned over a new leaf. He's decided that yet study is not so bad. After all, he's going to turn over a new leaf, or he has decided to turn over a new leaf. And finally, the last age in my half you is a leopard on the animal. A leopard cannot change its spots. A let a leopard cannot change its spots. Leopards or one of these members of the cat family. I'm sure you you know them Cheaters and leopards on DH there, recognisable by the black brown spots on their body. Okay, so they always have them from the day they're born to the day. There they die so literally a leopard never changes its spots. So when somebody says to you a leopard can't change its spots, it means that you're the sort of person that will never change. No matter what happens, no matter what you say, what you do, you're always going to be the same sort of person. Yeah. So, for example, if we're talking about somebody who perhaps is not the nicest person in the world, perhaps they not rob. But they cheat people. Occasionally they do things a little bit underhand. They're not so pleasant on DH. One day they turn up and they're being nice to people. And everybody's a bit shocked. Said Well, what happened to two Peter? He seems t be a changed person on DH colleague might say, Oh, be careful with him. Remember, a leopard never changes its spots. He might be nice today, but I guarantee he will go back to his old ways in a few days so leopards don't or leopards cannot change their spots. So you have to be really careful about people who have one way of acting for many, many years on DH. Then they might change a little bit. Would be very careful because they may go back to their old ways very, very quickly, so leopards cannot change their spots. Okay, so there are idioms all about change came to let me give them to again to break the mould, to change your tune, to reinvent the wheel, Stick to your guns, have a change of heart to turn over a new leaf on Then finally, a leopard cannot or never changes its spots. Okay, well, thanks for listening to the podcast on. 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