“Bang for your buck”の意味と使い方 Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 292

Bang for your buck ってどういう意味?

Bang for your buck は日本語で言う「費用対効果」、または「相応の価値がある」という意味の表現です。

 

Bang for your buck ってどういう場面で使うの?

たとえば、同僚に仕事のことについて話す時:

Justin:  Which hotel should I book for my business trip?
You:  I suggest the Crossroads Hotel. It’s a real bang for your buck.

You: 今度の出張はどこのホテルに泊まればいいですか?
Justin: クロスローズホテルをお勧めします。費用対効果がいいですよ。

 

Bang for your buck の自然な使い方を動画で学ぶ

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Hello everyone and welcome to another
Bizmates for Beginners video lesson

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where every week, we introduce a new
idiom, phrase or expression that you can

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use in your daily business conversation.
This week, everyone, we are going to learn

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"bang for your buck." OK? So to find out
what this means and how to use it, please

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stay tuned, but first, as always, everyone,
let's start with a quick review of last

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week's lesson. OK, everyone. So imagine I
ask you "Should we meet again before we

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begin working on the new project?" But you think we need to start as soon as

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possible. We've already met so many times. So let's start. How do you say that using

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the expression from last week? I'll give
you five seconds to think about it. Are

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you ready? OK, and go. Alright and time
is up. If you said "Yeah I think we should

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get the ball rolling as soon as possible.
And that's exactly right. Well done and

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thank you for remembering last week's
lesson everyone. OK, let's move on to "a

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bang for your buck." Now this is what I
sometimes hear, OK? I have an upcoming

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business trip, OK? I need to go to New
York. So I am asking my colleague and my

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good friend Taro if he has some
suggestions for me. So I say"Taro, I'm

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going to New York, so which hotel should
I book for my business trip? There's so

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many hotels. I don't know which one is
good. Taro says "Well, I suggest the

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Crossroads Hotel." it's a really good cost
performance." OK, so good value for my

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money. If I pay this much money, I can get
maybe good or even really great service.

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So it's good cost performance. Now this
is OK, but it's not very very natural

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in this situation. Now you might hear a
native English speaker say this. "I

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suggest the Crossroads Hotel. It's a real
bang for your buck. OK? So you get

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really good value for your money. it's a real bang

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for your buck. OK? So a buck actually
means dollar or dollars, so one buck two

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bucks. It's a little bit of a casual
expression, but you might hear someone

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say it's real... it's a real bang for your
buck. So it's a really good value for

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your money spent.
OK, so pronunciation. As you see it here,

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everyone, so please repeat after me. Bang
for your buck.

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OK, bang for your buck. So go ahead. Good. Alright, now after my question.

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So which hotel should I book for my
business trip? Good. OK. So you suggest

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Crossroads Hotel. It's a real bang for
your buck. Or I might ask you a question

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like "Which restaurant do you think I
should take our clients to?" Well,

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something that you know isn't too cheap
but has good value for money.

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So you might say "I recommend this
restaurant. That's a real bang for your

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buck." OK? Alright, so please remember this for

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next time, everyone. OK. Our bonus
question this week is another way to say

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"I'll be there very soon." If you know what
the answer is to this, please feel free

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to leave it in the comments below. If not,
don't worry you can find it in one of

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our previous Bizmates for Beginners
video lessons. So take a look if you have

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the time. Alright everyone, so that is
it for me this week. Thank you always for

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watching. Have a great weekend everyone
and I'll see you next time. Bye bye.

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