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Freeze your butt off
English Idiom: Freeze your butt off What’s going on with the weather, eh? It’s cold enough to freeze your tweetin’ butt off out here! It’s cold enough to freeze your butt off means that the temperature is very cold. It’s just an expression. Butts don’t really fall off. Last week, it was cold enough to…
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Financial literacy
Word of the Day: Financial literacy We all need it, and very few of us have it. How would you rate your level of financial literacy? Financial literacy is knowledge concerning financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. Do you feel you know enough about making, saving and spending money to make wise…
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Fritter away
Word of the day: Fritter (something) away You sit down to do some work but come across a few hilarious YouTube videos. You start looking at Facebook and finally find a few nifty recipes on CookPad, and before you know it, you have frittered away a few hours and accomplished nothing. Try not to be…
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Go off
Word of the Day: Go off It’s happened to all of us before. We buy something, squirrel it away in the fridge and then forget about it. We don’t intend to forget it; it just slips our minds. Then, one day, we are looking for something in the fridge and find something else that has…
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Have a heavy foot
English Idiom: Have a heavy foot A few days ago, I talked about speed demons, those people who change when they get behind the wheel of a car and think that they need to get everywhere fast. If you don’t want to call someone a speed demon, you can say they have a heavy foot.…
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Contract
Word of the Day: Contract No, I’m not talking about a legal document today. This contract is the verb form, which means to catch an illness or disease. For example, you can catch the flu, but you can also contract the flu. Of course, getting the flu vaccine each year would help to reduce the severity…
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Road to success
Phrase: Road to Success The vast majority of successful people did not become successful quickly. They had to work long and hard for success and spent many days travelling on the road to success. As you may be able to imagine, the road to success is not a road at all; it is a process.…
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Bedridden
Word of the Day: Bedridden Influenza season is just around the corner, and unfortunately, that means some people will contract it and become bedridden. A person who is bedridden is very sick or hurt and unable to get out of bed. If a person contracts influenza, it knocks them off their feet so that the…
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Go fly a kite
English Idiom: Go fly a kite I’m sure you have been annoyed by someone at some point in your life but were too polite to tell them to f*** off. That’s a good thing. It means you are a lady or a gentleman and do not want to use four-letter words or other profanity. Now,…
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Philanthropist
Word of the Day: Philanthropist When I think about a philanthropist, the first person to come to mind is Andrew Carnegie, followed by Rockefeller and Bill Gates. They are people who want to improve the welfare of others in some way by using their vast wealth. Many of the world’s wealthy people have donated to charity.…
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