Tag: do one’s business
Pastime
Word of the Day: Pastime What better day to talk about pastimes than Sunday? This is the seventh day, the day of rest. When I was a child, all the stores were closed on Sundays – you couldn’t even buy gasoline. Of course, things have changed. Nothing is sacred anymore, and Sunday is pretty much…
Make your skin crawl
Idiom: Make your skin crawl We are still about five weeks out from Halloween, but the phrase make your skin crawl has come up on my list of ‘possible posts,’ so I’m going to write about it now. It may be a giant spider slowly creeping up your naked back as you sleep, a snake…
Caught short
WotD: Caught short Here’s one we can all understand. Every one of us has been caught short at one time or another in our lives. When someone says they were caught short, they mean they suddenly had to use the bathroom, but there was no bathroom nearby. There’s nothing worse than not being able to…
Euphemism
WotD: Euphemism Quite often, English language learners have difficulty understanding the meaning of what a native speaker says. Sometimes, this is because the native speaker is using a euphemism. A euphemism is a gentle word used instead of a harsher word that someone may find offensive or unpleasant to hear. Let’s look at the word…
