English of the Day

Idiom of the Day

💥set your sights on

✍🏾Meaning:
If you set your sights on something, or set your sights on doing something, it becomes the target of your ambition or the object of your attention.

❕For example:

🔺Stanley has set his sights on coaching Liverpool, so he'll start getting to know people who have influence in the club.

🔺Microsoft has set its sights on one of the biggest search engine companies, so I wouldn't be surprised if the company's shares go up.

🔝Note: This idiom can also be expressed as "has its sights set on", "has her sights set on", "have their sights set on", and so on.

©Origin: Metaphorical, and related to the fact that a person using a gun looks through the gun's sights in order to aim, and will have his sights set on the target before shooting at it.
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Slang of the Day

💢pal

✍🏾Meaning:
a friend

❕For example:

🔺Robert and I have been pals since we were at high school together.

🔺Most of Gary's pals are already married, but Gary says he's still looking for the right girl.

💥Note: 1. usually refers to a male friend 2. also used to address a male stranger, esp. in anger, as in, "Piss off, pal!"
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Idiom of the Day

🇺🇸zero tolerance

✍🏾Meaning:
If something is given zero tolerance, it won't be accepted even once.

❕For example:

▪️Because of the school's zero-tolerance policy, our boy was expelled for smoking just one cigarette.

▪️How can a society based on Christian morals and forgiveness of sin have a zero-tolerance approach to petty crime?

ℹ️Variety: This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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“Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.”
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Phrasal Verb of the Day

💠Mistake for

✍🏾Meaning:
to wrongly think that a person or thing is someone or something else

❕For example:

mistake for
🔺Fake Gucci bags look real and can easily be mistaken for genuine Gucci bags.

mistake for
🔺There's a guy who lives near here who often gets mistaken for David Beckham. He looks just like him.
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Idiom of the Day

📚above board

✍🏾Meaning:
If something is above board, it's been done in a legal and honest way.

❕For example:

🔺I'm sure the deal was completely above board as I know James well and he'd never do anything illegal or corrupt.

🔺The minister claimed all the appointments were above board and denied claims that some positions had been given to his friends.

©Origin: Possibly derived from card playing and the fact that card players who keep their hands above the table (or above "the board") can be seen to be playing honestly, without cheating.
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§bThought of the Day:
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” -Jim Rohn

😄Joke of the Day:
What language does a billboard speak? Sign language.

❕Random Fact of the Day:
Messages from your brain travel along your nerves at up to 200 miles an hour.

🍁 Today's proverb: "Talk of the devil and he will appear."
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Slang of the Day

🔰weedy

✍🏾Meaning:
thin and physically weak

❗️For example:

🔺I'm strong and healthy now, but I was a weedy kid because I had asthma.

🔺Our new neighbour is a weedy little guy. I doubt he could do much if someone in our house called out for help.
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Idiom of the Day

📚from time to time

✍🏾Meaning:
If you do something from time to time, you do it occasionally, but not very often.

❕For example:

🔺We usually stay home on Friday nights, though from time to time we'll go to see a movie.

🔺Most of the artists we represent these days are nothing special, but from time to time we'll get one with real talent and originality.
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Saying of the Day

✨Great oaks from little acorns grow

✍🏾Possible interpretation:
The normal order of words would be "Great oaks grow from little acorns." We understand: sometimes small and modest things can become very large and impressive things with time.

💥Note: oak (noun) = a large hardwood tree found in many forests of the northern hemisphere; oak tree | acorn (noun) = the fruit of the oak tree, containing a small oval nut which is the seed | Another form of this proverb is: "Mighty oaks from little acorns grow"
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Idiom of the Day

📚an end in itself

✍🏾Meaning:
If something is an end in itself, it's done for its own pleasure or benefit rather than for some other purpose like making money.

❕For example:

🔺Billy says playing music in a band is an end in itself for him, but I think he does it to meet girls.

🔺People used to think education was an end in itself, but these days kids study in order to make lots of money when they graduate.
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✨Thought of the Day:
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss

😅Joke of the Day:
What happens when race car drivers eat too much? They get Indy-gestion.

💡Random Fact of the Day:
Spiders have clear blood.

🎈Today's proverb: "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip."
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Phrasal Verb of the Day

💥Get together

✍🏾Meaning:
to meet and spend time together

❕For example:

get together
🔺All the neighbours get together on Christmas morning for their annual Christmas "block party".

get together
🔺Every Saturday night we get together with some friends and have dinner in a restaurant.
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§bThought of the Day:
“Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can.” – Danny Kaye

😅Joke of the Day:
How did the karate teacher greet his students? “Hi-Yah!”

❗️Random Fact of the Day:
“There is more water in the Pacific Ocean than in all of the other seas and oceans combined.

§eToday's proverb: "Two of a trade never agree."
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Idiom of the Day

📚the moment of truth

✍🏾Meaning:
The moment of truth is a time when the truth about something is revealed, or when an important decision is made.

❕For example:

🔺We're getting our exam results today so the moment of truth is nearly here.

🔺We've been at the tennis tournament all weekend, and now we're watching the last game in the last match, so the moment of truth is here at last.
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☄️Thought of the Day:
“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day. After all, a movement is only people moving.” -Gloria Steinem

😂Joke of the Day:
What do you get if you mix a rabbit and a snake? A jump rope.

❗️Random Fact of the Day:
A lock of Elvis Presley’s hair sold for $115,120.
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