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Idiom: Punch above your weight
Writing a post a day is not easy.
There are times when I think I’ve taken on too much and am punching above my weight.
I had never wanted to be an author, publisher or even an English teacher.
Originally, I wanted to be a carpenter, but I became a sheet metal worker for a roofing company in eastern Canada.
In high school, I never thought I had what it takes to go to university.
I thought that would be way beyond what I was academically capable of doing, and that’s just what punching above your weight means, you see.
When you punch above your weight, you do something which you or others feel is beyond your capability.
So much for that.
I graduated from the University of British Columbia in Canada and The University of Birmingham in the UK with a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language.
Life is full of surprises.
Speaking of surprises, every post requires some research, and I thank God every day for the Internet.
While researching today’s idiom, I came across Darren Cathcart.
Now, who the heck is he, you might be wondering.
Well, Darren won a contest in 2014.
He was crowned champion at punching above his weight.
Darren is to be polite, a garden-variety bloke.
He’s nothing to write home about, if you know what I mean.
His wife, on the other hand, is stunning.
We know we shouldn’t, but as soon as we look at them, we automatically wonder how, in God’s name, he caught her.
They don’t look like they belong together.
However, they have found love, and we all know it’s what’s inside that counts.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 72.
The higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100, the easier the passage is to read.