Improve Your Vocabulary: 24 ways to complain in English

Описание: In England, we love to complain! We moan and grumble all the time, and we have many expressions we use for all this moaning and grumbling. In this lesson, I will show you informal ways to complain as well as formal expressions for complaining at work. You’ll learn expressions such as "a botch job", "a bit miffed", "all gone a bit pear-shaped", "bog-standard", and many more. Complain about this class in the comments, and take the quiz at: https://www.engvid.com/improve-your-v...

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In this video:
00:00 Moaning & grumbling in English
00:51 I mustn't grumble but...
01:57 a few sandwiches short of a picnic
02:36 bog-standard
03:04 a botch job
03:29 a dog's dinner
04:07 gutted
04:30 a bit miffed
04:44 to overegg the pudding
05:25 It's all gone a bit pear-shaped.
05:38 a shambles
05:54 a spanner in the works
06:38 It really takes the biscuit.
07:14 doing my head in
07:57 To be honest, I'm not really getting much out of this.
08:58 I've gotta say, this is testing my patience.
09:29 I think I've probably reached my limit now.
09:43 It just hasn't lived up to my expectations.
10:00 I have to say, I was expecting a bit more.
10:26 It's just not up to scratch.
10:52 I'm sorry, I'm not very happy with this.
11:13 I don't really see the point of...
11:31 Look, I'm sorry -- I'm just finding it a bit frustrating.
11:58 Is that really necessary?
12:22 That's ridiculous!
12:29 Review