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Money and Lifestyle

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Money and Lifestyle

Perfect Infinitives

  • Usage: Used to talk about past events, missed duties, or absolute certainties looking back in time.
  • Structure: Modal verb + have + past participle

Common Workplace Metaphors

  • Usage: Used to paint a vivid picture of a situation, like heavy workload or risk-taking, using standard British idioms.
  • Stay ahead of the curve – better prepared than competitors
  • Take the plunge – make a risky decision
  • Snowed under – heavy workload

Examples

1. She claims to have met the director before the merger.
2. We don’t want to reinvent the wheel, let’s stick to the plan.
3. He is completely out of his depth with this new budget.

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