today we'll be doing some super common business expressions and idioms that you can start using right now in any workplace [Music] so it's a normal day at your job but your job is very stressful why because you have lots of work to do you have emails to send phone calls to make more importantly you have a huge meeting today you just remembered you are making a presentation in this meeting but you haven't finished you haven't even started what can you do okay well the time now is roughly ten to one your meeting is at 2:00 p.m. you have a little over an hour to prepare it's impossible you need more time how can you do that okay it's fine it's fine she can call her boss she can make the meeting later how do you say that in English like this to say you want a meeting or event to happen later you say these can we postpone the meeting or can we push back the meeting how long how long does she need maybe just one more hour it's fine hi yeah sorry can we push back the meeting until 3:00 the boss he doesn't like that at all he wants to say no that is impossible it's impractical definitely no impossible how can you say that like this no it's out of the question specifically if you want to say no this is impossible it's impractical I'm not going to talk about it because it's impossible it won't happen no it's out of the question on the other hand you can use this in the negative if you want to say hmm you know that's it's not impossible you can say hmm it's it's not out of the question he doesn't want to wait until three he doesn't even want to wait until 2 p.m. no no no he wants to make the time of the meeting earlier how can he say that in fact we need to bring it the meeting forward make the meeting earlier meet me in five minutes with an amazing presentation so you know that to bring something forward means to make the meeting or the event happen earlier it's the opposite of to postpone something to push something back you can also say to put off the meeting or to put the meeting off you can separate that phrasal verb this is the phrasal verb version it basically means the same thing however it's a bit less formal you probably want to use postpone that's the more formal version of put off oh my god oh my god oh my god five minutes she can't do a whole presentation in five minutes hmm she'll have to improvise what happens next we're gonna find out after this a quick thank you to the sponsor of today's video lingo de that's right the lingo two language marathon is back again you just take one class every day for three months and get a full refund for your language course if you don't know lingo de they're an online language school in which you can study whenever wherever you want literally 24/7 with teachers and students from everywhere so it's just like a traditional English class where you can communicate with other people talk to the teacher face to face but it's online honestly I enjoy this type of situation where you have people from different 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gonna wing it sometimes you can wing it and you're amazing but other times if you wing something without any preparation you can really fail and fail hard and unfortunately that's what she did the presentation was terrible when people expect you to do something but you fail and you fail hard you do something really bad and it's your fault it's your responsibility that something bad happened he would say wow you really dropped the ball on this you're fired you're fired is what you say to someone when you say you don't have a job here anymore you know my job so of course it's a sad day he's angry she said everyone's crying ah we can't end this like this let's do this super happy ending yeah hi yeah sorry can we push back the meeting until 3:00 of course it's not out of the question to ask for more time that's perfectly fine I understand ah you're great and now she has all the time she needs to prepare for an amazing meeting and you know what happens after that she did the presentation 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