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Moneybags
WotD: Moneybags In past posts, I mentioned some idioms that were about money. If you enjoyed them, I have five days’ worth for you this week. As everybody knows, money is hard to get but very easy to spend. You work all month for your paycheck. Once you get it, you pay the mortgage or…
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Azure
Word of the Day: Azure Sorry to start with some bad news, but the rainy season is on the way. It has already begun in Okinawa, which means that it will soon start to rain in Kyushu. Not long after that, Kansai will get wet, and so on. Keeping positive, though, I want to enjoy…
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Take the good with the bad
English Phrase: Take the good with the bad Oh boy, it is the middle of the week. Oh well, I guess we have to take the good with the bad, which means that nothing is perfect and everything has both good and bad points. You know what I mean: You have a beautiful wife, but she…
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Ream
Word of the Day: Ream Does your office use a lot of paper? If you are an office worker in Japan, the answer is a definite yes. How much paper does it use every day? Week? Month? Year? How do we put that into words? Well, one word we can use is ream. When you…
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Don’t call us, we’ll call you
English Phrase: Don’t call us; we’ll call you Thousands of new university graduates have recently started their first professional jobs. As we all know, the job-finding process is not a piece of cake. We get very stressed before, during and after job interviews. After an interview, we all wait anxiously to receive a letter from…
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Seedling
Word of the Day: Seedling I enjoy gardening and growing many different plants. Usually, I start them off as seeds, but sometimes, I buy the seedlings and start from there. For economic reasons, I usually buy cucumber and basil seedlings because they are cheaper than purchasing a package of seeds. A seedling is the ‘baby’ plant before…
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Dodge a bullet
English Idiom: Dodge a bullet I have another interesting idiom today. This time, we are going to talk about dodging bullets. When a person has successfully avoided a bad situation, you may hear them say, ‘I dodged that bullet.’ To dodge a bullet means to successfully avoid a bad situation. If you foresee an accident and…
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Cheesy
Word of the Day: Cheesy In yesterday’s post, I wrote a very cheesy poem. Yes, I understand that it was a shock to some people to realize that I am not a good poet, but hey, life is full of surprises. But anyway, cheesy is a word we use to mean that something is not…
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Do the right thing
English Expression: Do the right thing Everyone is busy. We all have many things that we need to do and many things that we don’t want to do. Sometimes, we try to do the easiest thing, but it is not always easy to do the right thing. This phrase means to do the morally correct…
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Litter
Word of the Day: Litter Litter, litter everywhere and nothing in the bin, We throw litter on the ground, and isn’t that a sin? We throw litter in the river; we throw litter in the sea, But never, never, never throw any litter at me. Hey, look at me! I am a poet, and you…
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