ELL HubSusie Wolff
Susie Wolff
Vocabulary
poach (verb)
- Definition:
- to take someone from another team or company so they join your team, often because of their skills
- Example from the episode:
- “And in our sports, quite often the quickest way to gain performance is simply to poach someone from another team that's performing because they bring all their know-how.”
- Example sentence:
- “It can be hard to stop companies from trying to poach staff.”
intel (noun)
- Definition:
- useful information or facts that help you understand a situation
- Example from the episode:
- “So I got as much intel from as many different people within the sport, different perspectives from mine, and some were not nice to hear.”
- Example sentence:
- “The team shared intel about the opponent's tactics.”
blatant (adjective)
- Definition:
- very obvious and easy to notice, usually in a bad or wrong way
- Example from the episode:
- “And interestingly, when you walk into a room, you can quite often feel, it's not blatant skepticism, but you have an undercurrent of whether I'm taken seriously in this setting or, okay, I've got my work to do to win these people over.”
- Example sentence:
- “There was blatant cheating during the game.”
in somebody’s blood (idiom)
- Definition:
- a natural part of who someone is, often because their family did it or they grew up with it
- Example from the episode:
- “Well, I think you could say it was in my blood because my mom met my dad when she went to buy her first motorbike from his shop.”
- Example sentence:
- “Farming is in his blood; his family has farmed for generations.”