English of the Day

Saying of the Day

🍂There is a time to speak and a time to be silent

✍🏾Possible interpretation:
We should know when to say something and when to say nothing.

➕Origin: Like many "There is a time..." proverbs, this proverb is based on the Bible (Ecclesiastes 3):
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day

💢become of

✍🏾Meaning:
If you ask what has become of someone you haven't seen or heard from for a long time, you want to know what's happened to them.

❕For example:

become of sb
🔺Does anyone know what became of Josh after he went to America? Has anyone heard anything about him?

become of sb
🔺What became of that singer in The Stooges called Iggy Pop? Is he still making music?
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Idiom of the Day

📚beyond a shadow of a doubt

✍🏾Meaning:
Something is true "beyond a shadow of a doubt" if there is no possibility at all that it isn't true.

❕For example:

🔺Are you absolutely sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he is guilty of the crime?

🔺A few years ago a great many scientists said they were sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there was no such thing as global warming. Were they right?
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Saying of the Day

🍂Fair exchange is no robbery

✍🏾Possible interpretation:
Swapping one thing fairly in return for another is not the same as stealing.

➕Note: exchange (noun) = giving one thing and receiving another (usually of the same value) in return | robbery (noun) = the action of forcefully and unlawfully taking property from (a person or place)
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Phrasal Verb of the Day

💢dress up

✍🏾Meaning:
If you dress up, you put on formal clothes for a special occasion.

❕For example:

🔺dress up
It's fun to watch the Oscars and see all the movie stars dress up for the biggest night of their year.

dress up in
🔺When American women dress up they usually wear a gown, while the men wear a tuxedo.
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Idiom of the Day

💠lay down the law

✍🏾Meaning:
If you lay down the law, you tell people what they should do in a forceful and stern way.

❕For example:

🔺After we lost our third game in a row, our coach got really angry and laid down the law and said we had to try harder or we'd be out the door.

🔺Shelley's parents laid down the law after she got home late and grounded her for a month.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day

💢sit through

✍🏾Meaning:
If you sit through something like a long speech or a boring show, you wait until it's over before leaving, even though you're not enjoying it.

❕For example:

sit through sth
🔺We had to sit through another of the chairman's dull speeches before the awards were announced.

sit through sth
🔺If I hadn't been there with friends there's no way I would have sat through that movie. It was terrible!
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Idiom of the Day

📚read between the lines

✍🏾Meaning:
When you read between the lines you try to understand what someone implies, but doesn't openly state, when they say or write something.

❕For example:

🔺I got a letter from Robyn and she isn't happy. She didn't say anything but I could tell by reading between the lines that something's wrong.

🔺A good writer doesn't tell the reader everything directly but leaves it up to the reader to figure things out for themselves by reading between the lines.

➕Origin: Probably derived from a form of cryptography in which secret information was conveyed by writing it in invisible ink between the lines of a text.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day

💢settle for

✍🏾Meaning:
to accept something, even though it isn't what you really want

❕For example:

settle for sth
🔺If you want to be happy in life, don't settle for a job just because it's easy or it pays good money.

settle for sth
🔺Keep looking until you find what it is that you really love to do, and don't ever settle for anything less.
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Idiom of the Day

📚old hat

✍🏾Meaning:
If something is old hat, it's old-fashioned and no longer seen as being modern and new.

❕For example:

🔺When I was a teenager in the 1980's punk and new-wave music was all the rage, but now it seems a bit old hat.

🔺Lots of technology that seems new and modern here is already old hat in places like Japan and South Korea.
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