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Key English Idioms: Get Your Hands Dirty - Money and Business Key English Idioms: "get your hands dirty" | Money and Business
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Transcript

It's time to create a conversation using the idiom. Here we go. Whoo. Looks like I Isha. And Peter is sitting down in a cafe. And Peter has, I think, a cup of tea or a cup of coffee.

There's a lady at a different table talking on a cell phone. And I Isha doesn't look very happy. We can't tell Peters expression, but who knows. So they're probably having a conversation, or they are having a conversation and we're going to see what that conversation is. Because we're going to make a conversation using get your hands dirty. So first I used to says, I just use the quotations.

I just found out. You got your hands dirty on our last deal, huh? You got your hands dirty on In our last deal, we'll see which definition they're talking about. Peter replies, I'm not sure what you mean. So Peters pretending What? I don't understand.

I used to says, a gangster called me this morning, asking for money. Whoo. Peter says, Oh, that was Rico. He wants me to get my hands dirty again and steal more of your money. Make this one bold. So Peter does know what they're talking.

What are you talking about? So here's the complete conversation, the intro, maybe I used to said, Hey, Peter, we need to go out and have a meeting. I need to talk about some things. have been happening at work something I found out. Peters like, Alright boss, let's go. I used to says, I just found out you got your hands dirty on our last deal, Peter.

I'm not sure what you mean. I Isha. a gangster called me this morning asking for money. Peter. Oh, that was Rico. He wants me to get my hands dirty again and steal more of your money.

It's safe to say that in this conversation, get your hands dirty. We were talking about the second definition. We're talking about illegal activity, breaking the law, doing something that's illegal or unlawful and prohibited. forbidden. Okay, I should could have said I just found out you did something illegal on our last deal. And exactly what it was.

It looks like Peter stole money from ISIS somehow, maybe he had given him money and said you need to buy this product or you need to invest in this fund or do something specific with the money and Peter's like, and then gave it to Rico. So Rico called and he wants to do it again because he probably made money off the deal. Maybe it was a little bit awkward. When Rico talked with Ayesha on the phone. I use is probably like what? I don't know any gangsters.

But Peter does. Peter knows Rico. And Rico wants Peter to get his hands dirty again, and steal more of IHS money. Peter could have said he wants me to do something forbidden again and steal more of your money. He wants me to break the law again and steal more of your money. So we don't know how this conversation goes from here.

But if I was to guess I used to Probably look even more pissed off. Peter, you're stealing from me. Our company's already having trouble and you're stealing money and working with gangsters. Hmm. All right. Let's move on and make what?

Yes. Another conversation or Rick, Jerry, they're looking at me. They're looking at us. Seems like they want to talk to us about something. We both have sunglasses on, they look kind of aggressive and intimidating, like they want to do something bad to us. Rick, we got a complaint from an employee, that you're not getting your hands dirty.

Who not getting your hands dirty. We're going to be using definition number one or number two, we're going to find out Shortly, Jerry says, Yeah, Mary says, You don't help clean the toilets anymore. Hmm. So I guess we don't help out. Jerry's telling us about it. Rick says they asked us to put on sunglasses.

So we look tough when we talk to you, huh? Jerry? Yeah, you'd better get your hands dirty. Or we'll put you in, in the toilet. Get your hands dirty, make it bold. Let's review the conversation.

This is not What I was expecting? Rick, we got a complaint from an employee that you're not getting your hands dirty. Jerry. Yeah. Mary says you don't help clean the toilets anymore. Rick, they asked us to put on sunglasses.

So we look tough when we talk to you, Jerry. Yeah, you better get your hands dirty. We'll put you in the toilet. So what do you think, in this conversation, get your hands dirty? Are we using the first definition where it's get involved and help out? Or are we using the second definition whereas doing something illegal?

The picture Hmm, makes us think that it would be something illegal, but it's not quite. I guess you could say if, if they put put us in the toilet, that would probably be illegal. But when they're using getting your hands dirty, get your hands Dirty, they're talking about doing your work, helping out, helping the other employees getting involved in doing what needs to get done. So when Rick says we got a complaint from an employee, that you're not getting your hands dirty, he could have said, we got an a complaint from an employee that you're not getting involved. You're not helping out with the work. And it turns out that the work is cleaning toilets.

So they're talking to us and I guess in this situation, our job is or maybe our job isn't only cleaning the toilets, but we shouldn't be cleaning the toilets, and they think we shouldn't be cleaning the toilets. So they came to talk to us. And Rick and Jerry are probably employees there. And the boss maybe asked them, you know, hey, put on sunglasses, you look a little bit tougher, because we need this guy to clean the toilets. So Jerry says, Yeah, you better get your hands dirty. We'll put you in the toilet.

He could have said, Yeah, you better help out better get involved and help the employees or we'll put you in the toilet. So this situation this conversation wasn't exactly what it appeared to be at the beginning. When you see two guys like this two thugs, you think that something illegal is going to happen. However in the conversation for get your hands dirty, we're using definition number one, where an employee or a manager is not helping out, and they want him to help out by cleaning the toilets. Alright, right. So we just did practice Wow.

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