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20 Common Workplace Idioms (Video)

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How to Drum Up Business in English

American English speakers say let's drum up some business. This phrase to drum up it means to find. It just means that you have to go look for something and it's used quite commonly. The most natural idiom to use to ask someone that's very knowledgeable, some questions is to say that you need to pick their brain. Other languages have phrases just like this one that are very strange but they just mean to ask someone who's very knowledgeable on a subject some questions.

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