Tag: overwhelmed
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Pull yourself up by the bootstraps
Idiom: Pull yourself up by the bootstraps Students enjoy hearing about the lives of their English teachers. It provides more cultural and personal insight. I have always been independent. Here’s how I learned to pull myself up by the bootstraps. Before that, though, to pull yourself up by the bootstraps means to improve your circumstances…
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Snowed under
WotD: Snowed under What a great time of year to talk about being snowed under, eh? Luckily, Wakayama doesn’t get much snow because of our subtropical climate. Yes, it does snow sometimes, but it never sticks around for long. A massive dump of snow, though, is not the only meaning of what it means to…
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Knock you off your feet
Idiom: Knock you off your feet There are two ways that someone or something can knock you off your feet. The first way is physical. If you go outside in a super typhoon and try to walk across the parking lot, the strong winds will knock you off your feet. Someone or something can knock you off…
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Mansplain
Word of the Day: Mansplain Yes, it’s true. When men mansplain, they explain the obvious to a woman, often a more intelligent woman, and that woman thinks he’s an idiot. As you can see, the word mansplain is made up of two words ‘man’ and ‘explain.’ If you are a woman reading this right now, I am not mansplaining. …
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Saved by the bell
Idiom: Saved by the bell Saved by the bell is an expression used in English when a situation suddenly ends, and you don’t have to do something you didn’t want to do in the first place. We’ve all been saved by the bell at one time in our lives. Perhaps you were asked a difficult question in a…
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Off the cuff
English Phrase: Off the cuff This weekend, the world continues to be engrossed in the ongoing discussion about the first televised debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Many people have analyzed the debate, and the overwhelming opinion is that Hillary won. People believe she was well prepared, whereas Donald spoke off the cuff. Off…
