Bang for the Buck (a Popular English Idiom) | Learn American English in 1 Minute a Day

Bang for the buck is a common English idiom. Check out the video to find out all the details you need to know about how to use it in real life. Bang for the buck meaning: Something that offers good value for the money you paid for it. Bang for the buck origin: Bang = excitement and buck = money. Could be a play on Pepsi's advertising campaign from the 1950s, “More bounce to the ounce.” Bank for the buck examples: "We need to get more bang for our buck. Mason just isn't worth what we're paying him." "That video game console isn't cheap but you get a lot of bang for the buck with all the games that come with it." ----------------------------------------------- Check out another popular idiom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCF1CtacWvE ---------------------------------------------- Want to find out more? Check out: https://eslspeaking.org/american-english-idioms/ The Big Book of American Idioms: https://amzn.to/3o6YxZi https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #learningenglishwithjackie #idiom #englishidioms #learnenglish #englishidiomsandphrases ------------------------------------------- Learn English here: https://eslspeaking.org/category/learn-english/ -------------------------------------------- More idioms from @Learn English with Rebecca · engVid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ULpEDB623o ------------------------------------------- Transcript: Hi everybody, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. So today's idiom is "bang for the buck." Bang for the buck. It means you want something that's a good value. For example, you're shopping and you see something that like looks nice. Maybe a sofa or a couch. It looks good but it's very expensive so you could say to your friend, "I think I want more bang for the buck." It means that you want a better couch for that amount of money or you want to buy a cheaper couch. Another example is maybe your employee at work. They do good work but they are very, very slow. So you could say, "Ted, I wish he gave me more bang for the buck." It means that you wished he did more work. If you like this idiom, please hit like, subscribe, leave a comment, and also check out the Big Book of American Idioms..