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You’re listening to British Council’s English Online and I’m Sabrina. Today on Language Snacks we take a look at the expression have a chinwag.
Let’s listen to the dialogue.
A: Hey Dan. Not seen you for a while.
B: I’m meeting Claire in 5 minutes, but are you busy next week? Let’s have lunch.
B: Sure, we can have a bit of a chinwag. Tuesday?
A: Works for me.
A: See you Tuesday then.
Well, have a chinwag is real British slang, can you guess what it means from the dialogue? Maybe you are more familiar with the expression have a chat. If we break down the expression we have 2 words chin and wag. Chin is your lower jaw and wag means to move from side to side, so I suppose chinwag describes the action of talking or chatting.
Oh that’s my phone - excuse me while I have a chinwag with my friend.
我们学语言的时候经常要根据词组里的词来猜意思,但是对于“have a chinwag ”,我们可不能望文生义,因为这个词组表明“聊天的意思”比如对话中B建议have a chinwag ? 就是说 “待会我们聊一下天!”
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