Football Cliche: To gatecrash the top 4
During the Copa América the languagecaster team will explain a football phrase or cliche for learners of English who love the sport...
This week's English for football phrase is to end in tears. As the word tears implies, this phrase is used when something bad happens, when...
This week we explain the cliche 'to leave everything on the pitch' which means that...
This week's English for football phrase is 'to be up for it'. This expression means that you are ready for something, you are motivated...
Every week during the 2010-11 season, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliche for learners of English who love the...
Languagecaster weekly football phrase: Pull the trigger
This week's football phrase is 'to hold the ball up'
This week's phrase is 'an off the ball incident'
What does 'draw a blank' mean?
What does 'hit on the break' mean? This week's English for football is 'hit on the break' or 'hit on the counter'...
What does 'top drawer' and 'out of the top drawer' mean in football? This phrase has been used since the beginning...
We look at the football phrase 'to be in acres of space' which refers to when players always have lots of room to play.
Weekly Football Phrase: To dump out of a competition. This phrase is usually used when talking about cup competitions, such as the FA Cup...
In this post we explain the phrase 'to be in the dark'
This week's phrase is a 'wake up call'
Every week during the 2010-11 season, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché for learners of English who love the...
A manager speaks: Continuing with our look at the world of football language, we post an interview from 2007 that we carried out with...
Can we really translate the language of football? This article looks at recent improvements in translation software and wonders if it's...
Every week during the 2010-11 season, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché for learners of English who love the...
This week's English for football phrase is to fear a backlash which means to be provoked into a reaction after something strange or...
This week we feature the football cliche 'form is temporary, class is permanent' which means that a player never loses their natural...
This week's English football phrase is the expression to play to the whistle which basically means to keep playing until you hear the...
This week's football phrase for English is 'sorry' as in a 'sorry performance'
To stick it in the net: This week we explin the expression a€˜to stick it in the neta€˜, which means to score a goal.
This week's English phrase for football is 'to pull something out of the bag
Football, like life, is full of cliches and on today's post we are going to be talking about a classic - one that everyone in the game...
Football, like life, is full of cliches and on today's post we are going to be talking about a classic - one that everyone in the game...
Today's World Cup phrase of the day is the phrase 'to not take lightly'
Today's World Cup phrase of the day is the expression to hold on.
The Hand of God, refers to a goal scored by Maradona against England in the 1986 World Cup quarter finals - scored with his hand.
Today's World Cup phrase of the day is to lack a creative spark.
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