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Big shoes to fill
English Idiom: Big shoes to fill Everybody gets replaced. No matter what your job is, you will be replaced one day because you retire or move on to a better job. The main thing is that you leave behind some big shoes to fill when you go. The idiom, big shoes to fill, means that…
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Fubar
Acronym of the Day: FUBAR Fubar or Fu**ed up beyond all recognition was first used during the Second World War in Europe. Often, the best-made plans of mice and men did not work out during the war, and whatever they were trying to accomplish quickly turned into a confusing situation. Machines didn’t work, soldiers were…
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The real McCoy
English Idiom: The real McCoy The real McCoy is an idiom that means something is either authentic or the best example of something. For example, it is easy to go out and buy knock-off brand name goods such as fake Gucci or Prada shoes. However, they will never be the real McCoy. For another example,…
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SNAFU
Acronym of the Day: SNAFU It has been a long time since I wrote an abbreviation of the day. Snafu is extremely common and was first used during the Second World War. The letters that make up snafu stand for Situation Normal, All F***ed Up. It’s a situation in which nothing works as planned, and…
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Step out (on someone)
Idiom: Step out (on someone) Let’s hope you never have to use this one. Step out on someone means being unfaithful and fooling around with someone other than your romantic partner. If a woman sees lipstick on her lover’s collar, the first logical conclusion she will come to is that her lover has been stepping out on her.…
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Hubbub
Word of the Day: Hubbub A hubbub is a lot of noise, confusion or excitement caused by a lot of people talking or moving or doing both at the same time. Imagine the hustle and bustle of the streets of Bombay, India or Manila in the Philippians. There are people, cars, bicycles, motorbikes, buses, and…
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Steal someone’s thunder
English Idiom: Steal someone’s thunder Have you ever come up with a good idea only for someone else to bring it to the boss and take credit for it? If you have, then someone has stolen your thunder. This means they did something before you could do it and then took the accolades or praise…
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Busker
Word of the Day: Busker If you have travelled overseas, the chances are that you have seen a busker who is a person singing or playing music on the sidewalk, in a train station or in front of a restaurant in hopes of receiving money from passersby. In many cities, buskers are licensed by the…
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Check all the boxes
English Expression: Check/tick all the boxes Checking all the boxes is an expression that means meeting all of the requirements necessary to be successful. There are many requirements that you have to meet to be successful. Think of these requirements as written in list form. If you are interviewing for a new job, trying to…
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Stank
Word of the Day: Stank (slang) Stank can have different slang meanings. Some of these meanings are not very polite, but I am introducing a family-friendly sense of the word today. If you improve something and make it better and cooler (it must be cool), then you put some stank on it. I love muscle…
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