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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 261. The idiom today is "on the go." Okay.

  • Let's take a look at the note. If someone is on the go, he or she is constantly

  • active or busy. Yeah.They going all the time. All right. So let's take a look at

  • some examples we have here. That traveling businessman is always on the go.

  • You might be able to say on the move too. Basically it's you're ... you know, you're

  • moving you're on the go. So you're always having to go somewhere, do something

  • keeping busy. No time to rest. That's usually what we mean. So let's

  • look at number two. Jane is a working mother with three children. She never

  • seems to have time to rest. She is always on the go. Okay. Great and the third one

  • we have here. It's busy season at work. I'm on the go all the time. I don't have

  • time to even take a breather. Yeah. A breather, so we take a breather means it's

  • just the time to rest. (sigh) You know, just rest for a bit. So you don't even have

  • time to take a breather. You're on the go. You're moving. You're constantly behind

  • schedule. Yeah. You're very busy. Okay. Good anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear.

  • Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 261. The idiom today is "on the go." Okay.

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