Tag: a life of its own
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Date yourself
Phrase: Date yourself No, this is not the ultimate in self-love. If you date yourself, you do or say something revealing your age. As you already know, language is in constant flux. What I mean is it has a life of its own. You do not use many of the words that your parents used. Likewise, many of…
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A life of its own
Idiom: A life of its own A good rule of thumb in life is you should never tell a lie. A lie tends to take on a life of its own if you are not careful. One lie leads to another lie, which leads to one more and so on, until your lies have taken on lives of…
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Meld
Word of the Day: Meld Most people enjoy listening to some genre of music. I find it amazing how the sound from different instruments can combine or meld together to form beautiful music. It’s cool how the different sounds merge to create a piece of music that seems to have a life of its own.…
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Repertoire
WotD: Repertoire If you know something about how to tell the origin of English words, you probably have already noticed that repertoire comes from the French language. A person’s repertoire is all the things that they can do. For example, if a person is a poet or author, it contains all their written works. If you are an English…
