Phrases & Expressions

To begin communicating with the air traffic control tower on the specified radio frequency.

• Contact tower on 118.5 for clearance.
• You must contact tower before entering the runway.

A video or description showing a typical day in someone's life.

• The vlog was a 'day in the life' of a student.
• Her latest video is a day in the life of a busy chef.

Far into a place, a period of time or an activity.

• They talked deep into the night about their plans.
• The hikers walked deep into the forest to find the waterfall.

To fly down to a height lower than a stated level, such as the cloud base.

• The aircraft will descend below the cloud base shortly.
• Do not descend below the minimum altitude until the runway is in sight.

A safety procedure during an earthquake: get down on your hands and knees, cover your head and neck, and hold onto a sturdy object.

• When the shaking starts, drop, cover and hold on until it stops.
• The children practise drop, cover and hold on at school every month.

Used to mean that there is no chance at all of something happening.

• The boys at school always laugh at Dana. Will she be invited to the dance? Fat chance!
• You want to borrow my new car and drive it across the country? Fat chance!

An aircraft configuration where the flaps are not extended.

• With flaps up, the aircraft flies faster.
• The plane is in clean configuration, flaps up.

A type of workout where the goal is to complete a set task or number of repetitions as quickly as possible.

• Let's do this workout for time.
• The race is on for time.

From the very beginning to the very end.

• I read the book from start to finish.
• The project was well-managed from start to finish.

Starting from a particular time in the past and continuing afterwards.

• From then on, he was successful.
• From then on, things changed.