So, 'hats off' to you, Rob, for telling us about this phrase. But don't worry, Jiaying, if you're not wearing a hat, you can still say it. It is, although the origin of the expression is from when a person would raise their hat to show respect to someone. But we don't physically take our hat off to someone – it's metaphorical, isn’t it? Here's an idiom to use when you want to say you admire someone because they've done something impressive – it's 'hats off'. Welcome to The English We Speak, with me Rob… Can it be used for things as well as people? Find out in this episode. The BBC will also shift its focus away from providing news bulletins to overseas broadcasters and instead try to convince audiences to use the BBC’s own outlets and website.In this programme you can learn about 'hats off' – an idiom that can be used to say you admire someone's achievements. Television bulletins in Gujarati, Somali and Urdu will also stop, with Igbo, Indonesian and Yoruba language services going online-only. Several staff on those services said they expect to take redundancy rather than relocate, resulting in a loss of institutional knowledge. Some foreign-language World Service teams based in London will move to the countries they serve, such as Thai services shifting to Bangkok, the Korean service to Seoul, and the Bangla service to Dhaka. Despite the funding cuts, the BBC claims the World Service still reaches a weekly audience of about 364 million people. There will be a net loss of 226 jobs in the UK and 156 overseas. Earlier this year the BBC had to ask ministers for an emergency £4m to keep its operations in Ukraine and Russia on air.Ī BBC spokesperson said the UK Foreign Office had been consulted over the latest cuts and no country would lose its World Service content altogether, with digital operations continuing in all languages. However, there are doubts about how long these deals will continue. Since then the BBC has had to go cap-in-hand to the government to seek extra funding to support specific World Service projects, with ministers providing around £400m in additional cash since 2016. This money largely dried up as part of George Osborne’s austerity measures in 2010, when the bill for World Service operations was loaded on to domestic licence fee payers. The World Service was traditionally funded directly by the government and was seen as a soft power tool that provided British news and information to hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Philippa Childs of the broadcasting union Bectu said she recognised the BBC needed to adapt to the digital era but that the government’s licence fee freeze has “potential ramifications for the BBC’s reputation globally”. The broadcaster blamed years of below-inflation licence fee freezes imposed by the government, in addition to the rapidly increasing cost of producing programmes because of the state of the economy. There will also be a change in focus of the World Service’s English-language radio output, with more time dedicated to live news and sports programming at the expense of standalone programmes.Ībout 382 jobs will be lost as a result of the proposals, which the BBC said was required to make £28.5m of annual savings. BBC Persian will end its audio broadcasts aimed at Iran, with the announcement coming at a time when widespread protests are taking place in the country.
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