Jobs & careers
The work sector responsible for checking if everything is safe and legal in a workplace:
Health and Safety
A lie that is socially acceptable because we want to avoid hurting someone's feelings:
a white lie
to be __ a plane/train/bus
ON
development
d-VE-lop-ment
The job of helping other people when they have vehicle issues:
roadside assistance
A name for a joke that is "uncool" or very obvious:
a dad joke
to be __ the hospital (sick)
IN
vehicle
vee-yee-c'l
A job (mostly physical) that deals with checking if things are okay, keeping things running smoothly, fixing small issues:
a maintenance worker
When sth is very popular, people constantly praise it, but we think it's not really that good:
to be __ the hospital (visiting)
AT
fra-djil
A person in a company that is there temporarily, young, is paid "in experience", typically at university:
an unpaid intern
A phrase that means we think someone is worse than us, we are better, we don't see them as equal:
to look down on someone
to impact __ sth
-
negligible
neg-l-dg-bl
A informal way to say that a job doesn't pay a lot of money:
it pays peanuts
An idiomatic expression we use for tricking someone, typically related to cheating someone out of money or some other valuable assets/resources:
to take someone for a ride
to get on board __ sth (agree to a plan)
WITH
miscellaneous
miss-cell-ey-news