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The power of positive thinking
Tuesday Email: The power of positive thinking Life sucks until you ensure it doesn’t. The most effective way to prevent life from sucking is to embrace the power of positive thinking. What is that? Well, maintain an optimistic attitude for one thing. For another, deal with the bad things in life while focusing on the…
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Become poisoned with
Idiom: Become poisoned with (something) I will go out on a limb here and assume you know what it means to poison something. If a living thing ingests a dangerous chemical, it will become poisoned with it. That’s pretty straightforward and nothing new for you. However, did you know you can poison a relationship? Ah-ha!…
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Make sense of
Phrase: Make sense of (something) It often seems like an impossible task, but we are all trying to make sense of the world right now. For Western countries, things had been going along smoothly for quite some time. Sure, once in a while, something throws a spanner into the works, such as the Vietnam War,…
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Have a head for
WotD: Have a head for We all have a head for something. Sometimes it just takes a little longer to discover what it is. When you have a head for something, you have the innate ability to understand or deal with something. This ability could be anything at all, from working in high places to…
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False commute
WotD: False commute Believe it or not but some people enjoy commuting to work every day. It’s such an essential part of their day that they have invented something called a false commute while working from home. A false commute occurs when people working from home, walk, run or go for a bike ride during…
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Dig in the ribs
Phrase: Dig in the ribs We can dig in the sand at the beach and have a nice rib dinner at a restaurant afterwards, but that has nothing to do with digging someone in the ribs. If you dig someone in the ribs, you are trying to get their attention, often because you want them…
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Mondayitis
WotD: Mondayitis Today is Monday, the day for Mondayitis. If it sounds like a disease, that’s because it almost is. Mondayitis is a general feeling of negative emotions that a person has on Monday morning. You may be wondering how you got it or why you have it. Many factors can make us suffer from…
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Tie up loose ends
Phrase: Tie up loose ends Have you ever known someone who is a great starter but a poor finisher? This type of person tends to leave a lot of loose ends that need to be tied up. To tie up loose ends means to complete the parts of something that have not been completed. When…
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A flash in the pan
Idiom: A flash in the pan Japanese TV is full of famous faces. Many of them appear on multiple shows, multiple networks and in different cities. These people have built a career around being famous. Then there are the faces that are a flash in the pan. This phrase can be used to describe a…
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In droves
Word of the Day: In droves Before the pandemic, immigrants were heading to Europe in droves. Hundreds of thousands of them were illegally crossing into Turkey from Syria and crossing the Mediterranean in boats from Libya, trying to get into Greece. That’s our word for today, droves. It’s not a word you hear very often,…
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