🗓️ Idiom: Voice Your Concerns (verb)
💬 Meaning
- To express worries, issues, or complaints clearly.
- To let others know about problems or things that need attention.
🧠 Example Sentences
- Employees were encouraged to voice their concerns about the new work schedule.
- She voiced her concerns to the manager about the frequent delays in payment.
- Customers should feel comfortable voicing their concerns about faulty products or poor service.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom comes from the idea of giving “voice” to your thoughts or opinions. Over time, it became common in English to describe expressing complaints or worries formally or politely.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
If something isn’t working correctly, make sure to ________ to your supervisor.
Answer
voice your concerns
2. Multiple choice:
To “voice your concerns” means:
a) Keep problems to yourself
b) Express your worries or complaints
c) Ignore the issue completely
Answer
b) Express your worries or complaints
3. Change the sentence using “voice your concerns”:
“Staff told the manager about issues with the new software.”
Answer
Staff voiced their concerns to the manager about the new software.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
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