“Pay Top Dollar”の意味と使い方 Bizmates初級ビジネス英会話 Point 288

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Hello everyone! Justin here and welcome to another Bizmates for Beginners video
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lesson where every week we introduced a new idiom, phrase, or expression that you
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can use in your daily business conversation. This week everyone we are
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going to learn: Pay Top Dollar. So to find out what this means please stay tuned.
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But first as always, let's start with a quick review of last week's lesson.
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Alright everyone, so imagine I asked you: How was your business trip to New York?
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So you just flew back from New York a couple of days ago, but you haven't
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adjusted to the time here in Japan just yet. Okay, so maybe your internal clock
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hasn't quite adjusted from the time difference. So 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. You
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ready? Okay go!
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Alright and time is up. If you said: It was good but I still have
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jet lag. Then that's exactly right. Well done and thank you for remembering last
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week's class. Okay everyone, let's move on to: Pay Top Dollar. Now this is what I
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sometimes hear. Alright, so I'm speaking to my good friend and colleague Taro and
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we just watched an online press release, okay, from a tech company. And they just
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launched or just released a new smart watch. But that smart watch although
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it's really great, it's very expensive. So I say: Taro, who would pay over a thousand
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dollars for a smart watch? Taro says: Well, techies will pay much money for the
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newest gadgets. Okay, thank you. Alright Taro, so it's very interesting
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that he used the word techies. Now this is something we covered in one of our
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previous lessons. So a techie is someone that's really really into technology,
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they love technology. Okay? Similarly a foodie is someone who's really into
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food. Okay, so Taro says techies people who love technology will pay much money.
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Now, although this is good, you might hear a native English speaker
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use this expression instead: Techies will pay top dollar for the newest gadgets.
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Okay, so they're willing to spend a lot of money to get the newest toys and
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newest gadgets. Thousand dollars, two thousand dollars doesn't matter. Techies
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will pay top dollar just like foodies. Okay, they will pay top
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dollar for the best cheese, for the best whiner, for the best meat. Companies will
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pay top dollar to attract talent. Okay? So talented workers or employees.
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Alright, so top dollar means you're willing to pay a lot of money. So techies will
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pay top dollar for the newest gadgets. Alright, so pronunciation it's as you
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see here. So please repeat after me: Techies will pay top dollar for the
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newest gadgets. Your turn.
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Alright good, now after my question: Wow, who would pay
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over a thousand dollars for a smart watch?!
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That's right, techies will pay top dollar for the newest smart watch, absolutely.
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Okay everyone, so please remember this for next time.
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Okay, our bonus question this week is another way to say to: act too quickly. To
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do something before you are fully prepared. Alright, if you know what the
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answer is to this, please leave it in the comments below. If you don't know what it
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is, well you are in luck. Because it's something that we covered in one of our
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previous video lessons. So take a look if you have the time. And of course, I will
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leave the answer to last week's bonus question in the information section
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below. Okay everyone, so that is it for us this week. Thank you always for watching!
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Have a great weekend everyone and I'll look forward to seeing you next time.
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Thank you!