In this lesson, we'll focus on six business English idioms. Even though they are somewhat advanced, follow along with me because they are used quite often. All right? Let's get started.
1. "You need to face the facts about the drop in sales."
"To face the facts" means to accept a difficult situation. Accept the truth, to deal with the truth. That's what it means to face the facts. You're not going to say: "Face the facts", if you're talking about something good. But here, you see there was a drop in sales; sales went down, so you need to face the facts, means you have to accept the hard truth or the hard reality.
2. "Mr. Brown heads our team in NY."
So, the idiom here is: "to head the team". You'll have some part of the body as part of the business idiom. It's just the way I chose them. "To head the team" means to lead a group. All right? So, Mr. Brown is the manager, or he's the leader, or the head of this team in New York. "To head a team", that's the idiom.
3. "The marketing dept is footing the bill."
"The marketing department is footing the bill." Again, part of the body, the foot. "to foot the bill" means to take responsibility for payment. I know it doesn't always make sense, and that's why it's an idiom. The individual words don't reveal the meaning to you. You have to understand the entire expression, and that whole expression is called an idiom. So, "to foot the bill" means to take responsibility for paying for something.
4."Our HR (human resources manager") has an eye for selecting good people."
The expression here: "to have an eye for". I should say this. "To have an eye for something" means to have a talent for something or to have the ability to notice something. All right? So, our human resources manager has the ability to select good people.
5. "Who shouldered the blame for this disaster?"
"Who shouldered the blame?" Expression: "to shoulder the blame". "To shoulder the blame" means to take responsibility for something that went wrong, for a bad situation, for a difficult situation. "To shoulder the blame." Again, you see a part of the body is mentioned in each of these idioms.
6. "Jane was in over her head at work."
"Jane was in over her head". "To be in over your head" means to have too much responsibility, to have something which is too difficult for you. Maybe you took a course in university and it was just way beyond your ability in mathematics or something else, so you went in over your head; it was too hard for you, too difficult for you.
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