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Key Vocabulary account an agreement with a shop or business that allows you to buy things and pay for them later in’t (Northern England, informal) Contraction of isn’t isn’t it (informal) used to ask the listener for confirmation of or agreement with a statement; right. It’s beautiful, isn’t it? tag question (also called tag) a short interrogative structure appended to a statement or command, as “isn’t it” in “It’s raining, isn’t it”?, “are you” in “You’re not going, are you?” there we are there is what was needed or asked for there we are then to indicate agreement or confirmation of something previously discussed. It can also be used to signify completion or finality. When Wales get home rule, think they’ll nationalise Clive Jenkins? What a truly ancient joke. I wonder how many people would understand it, even if they were alive at the time. Clive Jenkins was a well-known trade union leader, born in Wales, during the period of Labour Party ascendancy – and economic failure – during the 1970s. His personality and Communist views were not appreciated by some people in England. This joke is saying – if Wales becomes a separate country, do you think they will take Clive Jenkins back? So it’s from the point of view of an English person who doesn’t like Clive Jenkins and wants to get rid of him. Home rule is a British way of saying independence, with whales possibly becoming an independent country. Nationalisation is and was the Communist/labour policy of putting social assets under the control of the state. there you go used when giving something to someone, usually after a request for the thing, such as giving someone goods that they have bought. Synonyms: here you are, here you go, there you are there you are a. an expression used when handing a person something requested or desired b. an exclamation of triumph you’re doing that well or correctly; nice job. bless you said to someone who has just sneezed, as a polite remark. Used to express non-understanding of someone who has just used an unusual or foreign word or phrase (as if to imply that it sounds like a sneeze).