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An Affair With My Boss
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Plot overview
A seemingly perfect professional life hides a dangerous secret for a young employee: an illicit affair with her powerful boss. As they try to keep their relationship hidden within the confines of the modern office, they must navigate corporate pressures, judgmental colleagues, and the emotional toll of their forbidden love. Their professional standing and personal lives hang in the balance when their secret threatens to be exposed.
Level insight
The dialogue often involves complex emotional subtext, professional terminology, and the use of subtle indirect speech required to maintain secrecy in a high-stakes corporate environment.
Learning goals
Practice using indirect language for sensitive, secretive conversations
Learn vocabulary for discussing professional ethics and corporate pressure
Master expressions for managing conflict and power dynamics between colleagues
Lingos you'll learn in this series
how the hell
phrase
An informal expression used to show great surprise, confusion, or intensity when asking how something happened.
the exact opposite
phrase
A strong collocation meaning completely contrary or reverse to what was expected or suggested.
can't be serious
phrase
An expression used to show shock or disbelief, implying that what was just said is unbelievable or ridiculous.
Since when do you...
phrase
A rhetorical phrase used to express skepticism, surprise, or challenge someone about a recent change in their behavior or routine.
Are you crazy!
phrase
An emotional expression used to show extreme shock, disbelief, or frustration when someone proposes a very foolish or reckless idea.
You've got to be kidding me.
phrase
A fixed expression used to convey disbelief, annoyance, or surprise.
what is going on
phrase
A common conversational phrase used to ask about the current situation or events.
deal with (something)
phrase
To handle, manage, or take action regarding a problem or situation.
get someone for something
phrase
An idiomatic threat meaning 'I will take revenge on you' or 'I will make you suffer consequences for this action'.
you got that
phrase
A demanding phrase used to check if someone understands and agrees to obey a strict instruction.
You had better not
phrase
A strong, informal warning or threat that emphasizes the negative consequences if the listener performs a certain action.
pay someone back in their own coin(s)
phrase
To treat someone in the same bad way that they have treated you; to retaliate using the same methods.
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