English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'image'
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You're listening to bbclearningenglish.com What can you tarnish, polish or project? Let's learn verbs we use with image. When we choose how people see us, we're deciding what image to project or present. If I want to project a serious image, I need to buy some smart clothes.

Businesses design branding to present the image they want their customers to see. Once you've chosen it, you need to keep your image up or live up to your image. He really lives up to his bad boy image. It's not just for show. It takes a lot of money to keep up this stylish image. If you don't like it, then you can try and clean your image up.

We can also use 'enhance' or 'polish' to talk about making your image better. After all the negative stories, the company was desperate to clean up their image. "I'm trying to polish my image!" What do you think is the best way to enhance it? Something that makes your image worse tarnishes your image. Losing the final tarnished his image as a winner. Our videos can help you keep up your image as a great English speaker. Keep watching them! BBC Learning English