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Strut your stuff
Phrase: Strut your stuff When you strut your stuff, you are acting confidently and expressively. Check out any YouTube video of Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones, and you’ll have a fantastic picture of what it looks like. When Jagger is on the stage, he shows off his handsome, beautiful, strong, and confident nature, and…
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Gaslight
WotD: Gaslight (verb) One person will gaslight another by trying to make them believe something untrue. It’s a type of psychological abuse. Yes, it can be used as a verb. There are numerous examples of kidnapped people being gaslighted. I can remember an incident in Japan; I think it was in Saitama, in which a…
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No skin off my nose
English Phrase: No skin off my nose/back When you hear a person use the phrase no skin off my nose/back, it means that they don’t care because whatever it is will not affect them negatively or positively. Using the phrase no skin off my back is another way of saying that you don’t care what…
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Haute couture
WotD: Haute couture High fashion is a business just like any other. Haute couture is anything related to the business of creating high fashion. As you may have already guessed, it’s French and literally means ‘high sewing.’ Although it literally means ‘high sewing,’ the actual meaning includes all aspects of the business of high fashion,…
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Stretch your legs
English Phrase: Stretch your legs After sitting in front of a computer all day, it is great to be able to go to the beach and stretch your legs, which means you can go for a walk after staying in one position for an extended period. Honestly, it is probably better to get up and…
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Nab
Word of the Day: Nab Usually, it is the police who have to nab the bad guys. When people do bad things, the police need to catch them so that they can go to jail. Well, as you may have already guessed, nab is a verb that means to catch or arrest someone quickly. In…
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Take to (something) like a duck to water
English Idiom: Take to (something) like a duck to water If you take to something like a duck to water, you discover that you have a natural ability or aptitude for that thing. For example, when people go to university in North America quite often, they are exposed to many different areas of study. In…
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Harbinger
Word of the Day: Harbinger A harbinger is someone or something that indicates something terrible will happen soon. After the massive earthquake and tsunami in Thailand a few years ago, most people now know that if the ocean along the coast suddenly recedes, it could be a harbinger of a coming tsunami, and they should…
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When the cat’s away, the mice will play
English Saying: When the cat’s away, the mice will play Every boss knows that when the cat’s away, the mice will play. It’s one of the reasons they always have a second in command. Has your boss ever gone away on a business trip or been out of the office for a while? If this…
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Botch
Word of the Day: Botch When you botch something, you ruin it by doing it incorrectly. As you can see in the picture, the person filled in the crossword puzzle incorrectly and then tried to cover over the mistake with correction tape. However, they didn’t do a good job. They botched the correction by putting…
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