A list of useful phrases and idioms you can use in day-to-day conversation to help you sound more natural & confident!

Common Daily Phrases

It’s been great talking, but I don’t want to keep you

Let others know that you have a lot of commitments

To let others know you have a lot of tasks to complete in a short amount of time

Asking for your food to be packaged when at a restaurant

Commenting on how something is overpriced; far more expensive than it should be

Commenting on how something is a good value for the amount of money

When you want to ask someone for information

Do you have any idea…? / Would you happen to know…?

Something is very easy and straightforward

An encouraging way to say 'good luck' that is often accompanied by a thumbs up

When you “call it a day” or “call it a night,” you stop whatever you’re doing, usually at least until the next day.

A more natural way of saying ‘please repeat’

To ask for help, usually with something physical. If you see someone who might need help you can ask “Can I give you a hand with that?”

When you want to say more than just ‘thank you’, you can add this phrase

When someone gives you bad news or tells you about something unfortunate that happened to him or her

This means “I will tell you.” You can use this when you don’t have an answer immediately, but you plan to contact the person in the future to share some information

Sarcastic/mocking way of suggesting that something is not hard or complicated

You don't notice how long something lasts when it's fun

Another way of saying you agree with someone

You have no idea/information about something

To express that good things come after bad things

You have more important things to take care of than what we are talking about now

Spill the beans / Let the cat out of the bag

You can't make up your mind about something