English in a Minute: Phrases with 'thing'

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Not one thing, not two things, not three things, or things.

I'm going to tell you four phrases with thing.

Something that just doesn't happen anymore is a thing of the past.

Getting lost is a thing of the past.

Now we've all got phones.

If you want to insist that something doesn't exist, just say,

there's no such thing.

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I'm afraid there's no such thing.

If you think something or someone will be really popular

or successful in future, then it or they could be the next big thing.

You've got to hear this band.

I think they might be the next big thing.

The fourth phrase with thing I'll share with you

is about being in the middle of all the action.

And if that's where you are, you're in the thick of things.

If you want to work in a hospital, you need to like being in the thick of things.

Use these four phrases with thing this week.