Tag: bottom line
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Left holding the bag
Phrase: Left holding the bag Have you ever had the responsibility for something unceremoniously dumped on you? If you have, you know how it feels to be left holding the bag. If you know what I mean, things like that tend to happen to people further down the totem pole. To be clear, when you’re…
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Bottom line
WotD: Bottom line If you’re keen to improve your English, you’ve already read my post from yesterday about advice falling on deaf ears. Therefore, it won’t be too much of a stretch for you to understand that when we give advice or make a suggestion, we often try to get to the bottom line. What is the bottom…
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Hustle and bustle
WotD: Hustle and bustle In countries all around the world, there’s an ongoing migration to the hustle and bustle of cities. Cities sure are getting crowded. New York’s population is 8,622,698, Tokyo’s is 37,468,302, and Toronto, The Big Smoke in Canada, has around 2,800,000 people. Hustle and bustle is a lot of action in a small place.…
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One-upmanship
WotD: One-upmanship There is a lot of competition in this world, especially in sports. If we think about it, sports is a constant game of one-upmanship. This means that someone is trying to be better than someone else. Often, they do this by trying to be bigger, better, faster, richer or smarter than the other…
