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What is the meaning of the phrase ‘wide’ in football?
Weekly Football Phrase: Up for grabs
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This week’s English for football phrase is ‘up for grabs’ which is used to describe a situation in which a team has a chance of winning a game or qualifying for the next round of a competition after looking like there was no chance at all.
Weekly Football Phrase: Take the lead
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What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘ to take the lead’?
Weekly Football Phrase: The Team to Beat
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This week’s weekly football phrase is often used when looking ahead to a new season: The team to beat.
Weekly Football Phrase: Dying Breed
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In reference to Steven Gerrard’s last home game at Anfield, this week’s football phrase is the cliche ‘dying breed’
Weekly Football Phrase: A Hiding
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In our listening report this week we focus on Manchester United’s poor start to the 2014-15 season and in particular their defeat in the Capital One Cup and so this week’s football expression is ‘a hiding’
Weekly Football Phrase: Double the advantage
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What does the phrase ‘to double the advantage’ mean in football?
World Cup Word of the Day: Looping Header
World Cup Word of the Day. It’s the second day of the World Cup and today, Languagecaster explains the phrase looping header.
Weekly Football Phrase: Hot seat
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When do we use the phrase ‘hot seat’ in football?
Weekly Football Phrase: To be out of the cup
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What is the meaning of the phrase ‘to be out of the cup’?
Weekly Football Phrase: Schoolboy Error
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What does the expression ‘schoolboy error’ mean? Find out on this week’s football language podcast.
Football Expression: Agree a deal
This week’s English for Football expression is the phrase to agree a deal which is often used in the transfer window
Football Expression: Rule out
This week’s English for football is to rule out – to rule something out
Football Expression: Come from behind
This week’s English for football is come from behind
Weekly Football Phrase: On paper
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Do you know what the phrase ‘on paper’ refers to in football? Listen to our weekly football phrase to find out.
Weekly Football Phrase: To Boss the Game
Every week, languagecaster.com brings you words or phrases from the footballing news. Today we explain the phrase ‘to boss the game’.
World Cup Phrase of the Day: To go for it
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Go for it: Every day during the World Cup, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché
World Cup Phrase of the Day: Rout
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Today’s World Cup phrase of the day is the expression rout which means a heavy defeat.
English Football Phrase: Break the deadlock
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What is the meaning of ‘break the deadlock’ in football?
To give the ball away cheaply
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English Football Phrase: To give the ball away cheaply