Thanks for visiting this Friday episode for September 18, 2020. Our idiom today is 'play someone like a fiddle.' Today’s episode is for M/D,2020. If you can play someone like a fiddle, you can easily and skillfully manipulate them to do what you want them to do. You can read along as you listen by following this link: http://bit.ly/aePlayLikeAFiddle
Here are some other new terms that may have been new for you today:
Sweet talk: Sweet talk is to praise someone insincerely to get something you want or achieve some aim. Salespeople use sweet talk all the time.
https://bit.ly/aeSweetTalk
Uncanny: Something is described as uncanny when it appears to be strange, out of the ordinary or somehow mysterious.
http://bit.ly/aeUncanny (This one is for subscribers only. You can sign up for the Tuesday and Wednesday emails here: https://bit.ly/Tues-WedEmail)
The way it goes: When things don't go your way, and you have no explanation for why things happened the way they did, you can say that's the way it goes. http://bit.ly/aeTheWayItGoes
