Hello, welcome to my new lesson. My name is
Emmelda. Have you come across a situation
where you are not sure what your boss is talking
about? Especially if he uses big words that
you don't understand and it is not direct
instruction or direct answer or question.
You are not sure, you scratch your head and
you wonder what did the boss say? Well today
I will help you understand your boss by walking
you through various phrases usually a supervisor
or an administrator would use on his subordinates
or his employees, okay.
Okay so let's get started with the first phrase,
under my nose. When somebody says, you are
going to do this under my nose or this cannot
be done under my nose, it means supervision.
You have many Hollywood movies, where this
boss comes and says, you did this right under
my nose. It means he was right there, he was
there when you did it and he was supervising
you but he did not notice. So, under my nose
actually means supervision. so next time,
if you want to tell your child or some friend
of yours, that you are gonna do this right
under my nose, doesn't mean he is gonna stand
up here and do things. It just means you are
going to supervise him while he is doing something.
So under my nose, I hope you got it. Great
Moving on to the second, the target. Now target
is used in two different ways, one as a noun
and the other one as a verb. When you are
saying, target as a noun, you referring to
a particular thing that you’re aiming at.
Most importantly, you are aiming at, you are
talking about noun. Okay for example, my target
is to earn $15000 a month. Here target is
referred as a noun. That $15000 that you want
to earn in a month, is your target and it's
a noun. Am I correct? Great. But how can you
use target as a verb? Let me take a gun at
you and let me target it at yu, right. So
here I am using it as a verb because I am
focusing my gun at you. So I am going to target
at you. This is how you use target as a verb.
Your boss may say, you need to target at $35000
sales a month. so that's a verb, your boss
is asking you to aim at or to look for selling
products that will earn you $35000,okay.so
that's how you use target as a verb, okay.
So target as a noun and targeting at $15000,
that’s a verb. Now you say to earn $15000
a month is my target, you are using it as
a noun. I hope you understood, I'm going to
move on to the next word, which is deadline.
Please don't take it a literal meaning, dead
means to die and there's a line. No, it only
means a timeframe that you need to finish
working, okay. For example, your boss will
say, i give you three weeks’ time from now.
So let's say today is 1st January, 21st January
will be your deadline. By 21st January you
have to finish something. So deadline means
a specific time, where something needs to
be finished. Deadline, don’t break the word
and say, dead as in to die and there’s a
line. No it just refers to time. This is another
way of talking about time. So deadline actually
refers to time.
Moving on to, the next phrase I have club
together. What do you mean club together?
Club together means to team up. When the boss
says I need you to club together these papers
with those papers, it means you want to bring
it up as a group, okay. You are trying to
mix something or when he tells about people,
can you club together with him that means,
he wants you to be in his team or he wants
you and the other person to team up while
you are doing something. So it's club together.
You club things together. Club together. It
is a noun or it can be used as a verb. When
you say I club this together, it becomes a
verb but this is clubbed together becomes
as a noun, so it's clubbed together.
Head start, what is a head start? Head start
means the help given by someone before you
start something. So let's say, you are tryin
to do a presentation, okay and you don't really
know how to go about it. so your boss becomes
very nice and he is trying to be very genuine
and you know he is tryin to help you and he
says, let me give you a head start, that means
let me give you some help for your presentation
before you start doing the presentation. So
head start means help. It’s a help that
you would get before you start doing an activity.
usually someone senior than you will give
you a head start, that's a usual thing, it's
not specific that only your boss can give
you a head start. No, however head start is
a help given to you before you begin working
on something, that’s a help.
Moving on to the next phrase I have for you,
follow up. Well again don't take it literally
like you want to follow something, no. it
only means you are trying to understand what
happened? Let’s say I am trying to attend
a meeting, okay and I call someone and I said,
hey you know I would like to meet you on Tuesday,
okay I’ll let you know. But that person
never calls you back or you are asking your
boss, boss I would like to do this and your
boss never responds. So the next effort that
you take is a follow up. Basically you are
trying to as or seek again as to what happened.
You are trying to understand what happened
or you are trying to understand if there's
any new update. So follow up, I’m trying
to follow up on this meeting. I am trying
to follow up with this agenda. So you follow
up, you are trying to ask a clarification,
something that is yet to happen or that has
happened. Okay follow up.
The next one I have for you is count on. It’s
not like count, when your boss says, can I
count on you? It actually means he is talking
about can he trust you? Your boss can ask
you a question, can I count on you? Can you
do this for me? That means he is asking can
I trust you Clark, can you do this favor for
me? For which Clark can say, yes or he can
say, no. okay but try not to say no to your
boss. Don’t do that. Usually if a boss is
giving you a responsibility by saying can
you count you on this? It means he is asking
for your trust, can he trust on you? So you
should say yes. That’s a good thing to do.
So count on means trust.
The last one I have for you is, wind things
up. Some people get confused by reading this
as wind. It’s not the wind, the air, here
it's pronounced as wind. Wind things up that
means your boss is asking you to finish things
up, finish working and quickly take a break
or move on to something else. Okay so that's
how they use this phrase wind things up.it
means to finish, to finish working, okay.
So that’s how you use these phrases or that's
how your boss uses these phrases on you which
you don't really understand. Next time this
is not going to happen as you know exactly
what they mean. Am I correct to say that?
Great. I will be back with another lesson
until then, have fun, stay healthy and keep
learning English, till then bye.
