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Leap of Faith
WotD: Leap of faith Religious people often talk about faith. There is no religion without faith, and to have faith means that you have trust or confidence in someone or something. In a religious sense, you have faith in the existence of God. OK, so that’s religious faith. When you take a leap of faith,…
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Sort itself out
Phrase: Sort itself out Are you a believer in pre-crastination or procrastination? There are merits and demerits for both, naturally. Which one you support depends partly on whether you like to take charge and tackle a problem head-on or sit back and wait to see if the problem will sort itself out. When a problem or…
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Bend the truth
Phrase: Bend the truth If you deny it, I won’t believe you. We all bend the truth to some extent, sometimes. Yes, I know everyone who reads my posts is a good person, and good people don’t tell lies. They do, however, on occasion, bend the truth. By that, I mean they tell so-called white…
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Pull through
WotD: Pull through Today’s phrasal verb is a very common one. You’re bound to have heard a character in an American TV drama say pull through at least once, especially if it is a police drama with lots of shooting or injuries. Pull through means that someone with a severe illness or injury or someone…
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Hit rock bottom
Idiom: Hit rock bottom The climb up is so very hard, but once you begin to tumble down, it is easy to keep going until you hit rock bottom. We use this expression to mean you’re at an extremely low point and unable to go any lower. Now, no one wishes to hit rock bottom,…
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Drag on
WotD: Drag on Did the lockdown drag on for you, or was your home a hive of activity every day? It’s incredible because we all wish we had more time, and then when we get it, we have no idea what to do with it. Millions of people were sitting in their homes, bored out…
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Hindsight is 20/20
Idiom: Hindsight is 20/20 A large number of students find the idiom hindsight is 20/20 challenging. For one thing, they don’t know how to read the numbers, and for another, they don’t know what the numbers mean. I think that quite a few native English speakers may not be able to explain the origin of…
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Bend the rules
Idiom: Bend the rules Rules are not always hard and fast limitations that must be followed to the letter. It’s not good to break the rules because they were made for a reason, but we can bend the rules on occasion. When we bend the rules, we allow someone to do something that they usually…
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Count your blessings
Phrase: Count your blessings The next time you’re feeling stressed out or a little depressed because it seems like the whole world is against you, count your blessings. In other words, try to be grateful for what you have because, as my father told me in one of his moments of clarity, “No matter how…
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Food for thought
Phrase: Food for thought I want to begin by saying that we are in the middle of a pandemic, but I don’t know if we are. That fact in itself gives us food for thought. Food for thought is any topic that requires serious consideration. If you spend a lot of time pondering something, it’s…
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