Tag: a head of steam
Muckrake
Word of the Day: Muckrake The mass media is changing in Japan and starting to accept the need to muckrake. Muckrake means to seek out scandal and print or publish it in publications or, of course, online. Everyone loves a good scandal. When I first came here, it was almost unheard of for a newspaper to…
Run out of steam
English Expression: Run out of steam As we saw with the idiom I introduced yesterday, a head of steam means to build up momentum and become successful. Well, today’s expression run out of steam is the opposite. If you run out of steam, you lose momentum or enthusiasm for something and fail or give up. We…
Momentum
Word of the Day: Momentum Momentum is a physical force that keeps you moving in a forward direction. Regarding people, it can be similar to desire determination, which comes from within ourselves. As we can see with my example of Hiroshi, his enthusiasm ran out of steam. Hiroshi lost his internal momentum, desire, and determination…
A head of steam
English Expression: A head of steam Let me give you the literal meaning of a head of steam before we get to the idiomatic meaning of a head of steam. As you probably know, a steam locomotive (SL) boils water to produce steam, which is then held in an enclosed space. The pressure builds up…
