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Hello and welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them as well.
I'm Feifei and I'm here with Beth.
Hi everyone, and hi Feifei, how are you?
I'm very well, thank you.
The expression we're looking at in this programme is from the get go.
I could say I've presented for BBC Learning English from the get go.
Ah yes, from the get go means right from the beginning, so you have presented in this job ever since you started.
I have, and we can use this for anything that has a beginning.
For example, I recently went on holiday and I had a perfect holiday from the get go.
Great, sounds wonderful.
Beth, do you have an example?
Yes, so I went to the cinema recently and this film, the opening scene, was so funny and the whole film was just hilarious from the get go.
You'll have to tell me the name of the film.
I will, but first, here are some more examples of the expression from the get go.
I just have a really good friendship with him.
It was obvious when we first met that we were going to get on well from the get go.
I took a flight the other day and there was a lot of turbulence from the get go.
It was absolutely terrifying.
I read this book about wizards and elves.
I loved it from the get go.
Now, we can also say right from the get go.
When we put right in front of an expression like this, it really emphasises that it was exactly from the beginning.
Yes, and there are other expressions similar to this one, like from the very start or from the very beginning.
And again, we can add right in front of these expressions to add emphasis, for example, right from the very start.
So, to recap, we've learnt the expression from the get go, which means from the beginning.
And that's all from us.
We'll be back next time with another useful English phrase.
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