Essential Business Idioms for Professional English

Learn key business idioms to improve your professional English communication with our practical video lesson.

Stop sounding basic in your business English. This video lesson introduces essential idioms that will enhance your professional communication and make you sound more fluent and confident.

Here are 3 idioms you’ll learn.

• Let’s get the ball rolling: To begin a process or start an activity. Example: "We need to start the project. Let’s get the ball rolling".
• Knuckle down: To focus on work and put in effort to complete a task. Example: "We have a deadline coming up. It’s time to knuckle down and finish the report".
• Running around in circles: To put in a lot of effort without making any progress. Example: "The client keeps changing their mind about the design, and we are running around in circles".

Using these business idioms will add a level of sophistication to your language and show that you have a good grasp of English idiomatic expressions.

Watch the video to see these idioms in action and practice using them in your conversations.