{"id":1625,"date":"2010-08-18T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2010-08-18T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:00:07","slug":"podcast-sports-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/2010\/08\/18\/podcast-sports-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Sports Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1625-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2010\/08\/podcast-sports-idioms-II.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2010\/08\/podcast-sports-idioms-II.mp3\">https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2010\/08\/podcast-sports-idioms-II.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/ingles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2010\/08\/podcast-sports-idioms-II.mp3\">Download audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, there! How\u2019s it going?<\/p>\n<p>Today our podcast again will be about sports related idioms used in business contexts. Let\u2019s cut to the chase, I mean, let\u2019s go direct to the point and check out some of these idioms.<\/p>\n<p>So, our first idiom is to <strong>make a play for something<\/strong>. This idiom means that we attempt, we try to gain control of something. Let me give you some examples:<\/p>\n<p><em>Mark is being extremely nice to the boss, it sure looks like he\u2019s<strong> making a play for<\/strong> a management position.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mark\u2019s making nice with the boss, he\u2019s being nice and helpful because he wants to get a management position, he\u2019s trying to get it by being nice to the boss.<\/p>\n<p><em>They\u2019re <strong>making a play for<\/strong> a new market segment with the release of that new Blu Ray thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, as the Blu Ray thing is basically new, that company is taking advantage of this new territory, these new market opportunities, to conquer new clients.<\/p>\n<p>OK, let\u2019s move on to our next idiom which is <strong>to be way out in left field<\/strong>. When something is way out in left field it means that this is not common, that it\u2019s very strange and it\u2019s not usually seen. It can also mean that someone or something is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p><em>He\u2019s a nice guy and stuff, but he\u2019<strong>s way out in left field<\/strong>. Man, what kind of ties are those he wears to work?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She\u2019<strong>s way out in left field<\/strong> when she says that we don\u2019t work hard enough. Come on, we\u2019ve been working overtime for the past two months, isn\u2019t that working hard enough?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the first example we see that that guy is cool, nice and everything, but on the flip side, on the other hand, he wears some crazy, ugly or tacky ties (tacky means not fashionable), and that is strange. It\u2019s like the character of Betty Suarez on TV show Ugly Betty, she\u2019s very competent but wears some tacky and ugly outfits, and that is way out in left field.<\/p>\n<p>In the second example, we resent that she thinks we don\u2019t work hard enough, and that she is wrong to think that, she\u2019s way out in left field.<\/p>\n<p>Our last expression is to<strong> tackle a problem<\/strong>. In American football to tackle means to grab a player and throw him to the ground, so to tackle a problem is to deal with it, oftentimes it\u2019s not an easy situation. Let\u2019s see some examples:<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you written that proposal about how to <strong>tackle the tax problems<\/strong>?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We need to <strong>tackle those problems<\/strong> right away, they can\u2019t wait.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, this is it for today, people! 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