"Give someone a pat on the back." Does that mean literally to do this to somebody?

Well, yes, because this is a pat, right? But when you do this, that action means that

you are complimenting someone on a great job that they did.

So, for example, in my example we have: The boss gave Peter a pat on the back.

Because he did a good job at work. Okay, so normally when someone gives you a

pat on the back, it's good. Right, it's telling you that you did a good job.

Our next idiom is, "Let's get down to business."

Right, some people who aren't native speakers might say,

"Let's get down to the business." But, usually a native speaker would not use

"the." Right, it's not natural and it's not the way

we would use this. What does, "Let's get down to business, mean?"

Does it mean, "Let's get down, dance?" Like James brown?

No, it doesn't mean to dance. Let's get down to business is more clear when

you see it in the example, right. Let's look at it right. So a boss says, "Let's

stop talking, and get down to business." What does the boss mean?

The boss means, let's stop talking and let's actually do action, the action of doing business.

Let's get work done. And that's what, "Let's get down to business,"means.

Okay and our last idiom for today is,

"Back to square one." What does that mean?

Does that mean that we are going back to the square, the number one square?

No it means we have start all the way over to the beginning or back to the beginning.

So, for example, maybe a writer, right someone who writes books, an author, maybe started

a new book. All on their computer and their typing it

up and then for some reason, that night they get a virus and the virus erases everything

on their computer. What happens to that new book? Well that new book is gone, right?

So all the materials of the new book is gone, with the details and so forth.

So what do they say? They say, "I guess we're back to square one."

Or I guess I'm back to square one. Meaning, they have to start over from scratch,

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