VOCABULARY to lose the plot - stracić wątek to lose touch with sb/sth - stracić kontakt z kimś/czymś customer - klient competition - konkurencja to embark upon sth - przystąpić, zabrać się do czegoś; rozpocząć, podjąć coś to expand the business - rozwijać, rozszerzać przedsiębiorstwo frankly - tu: szczerze mówiąc expression - wyrażenie play - sztuka teatralna movie - film to get lost - zgubić się to forget - zapomnieć story - fabuła, historia, opowiadanie to develop - rozwijać się confused - zdezorientowany, oszołomiony people in power - ludzie u władzy dominant - dominujący relationships - stosunki, relacje, związki między ludźmi

LESSON 5
Losing the plot

Marks and Spencer spokesman:
It has to be said that we lost touch with both the customers and the competition. We were very actively embarked upon a programme of expanding the business. With a lot going on, frankly we just, we lost the plot as far as the customers were concerned.

Tony Thorne:
Losing the plot, it's a very interesting expression. It seems to come originally from the idea of an actor, or even a writer or a director, making a play or a movie, who gets lost and forgets how the story is supposed to develop.

In general it means becoming confused and not to know what one is supposed to be doing. And it's a phrase which is typically used at the moment in Britain to criticise people who should know better - experts, people in power, people who are dominant in relationships.

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OBJAŚNIENIA

with a lot going on - w sytuacji, kiedy wiele się działo

as far as the customers were concerned - jeśli chodzi o klientów

how the story is supposed to develop - jak historia ma się dalej toczyć

people who should know better - ludzie, którzy powinni wiedzieć lepiej, znać się na rzeczy, wiedzieć jak postępować

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