Tag: get away with
Asking for it
Phrase: Asking for it People who invest their money in increasingly risky ventures and eventually lose everything often receive little sympathy from others. In fact, they may hear more risk-averse investors say they were asking for it. So, what does that mean? What were they asking for exactly? When you say someone is asking for…
Tempt fate
WotD: Tempt fate When you tempt fate and get away with it, you become everyone’s hero. They all talk about how cool and brave you are with nerves of steel. When you tempt fate and lose, you become a big fat zero. People will turn on you in a second and will not hesitate to…
Be no angel
Phrase: Be no angel In the old Westerns, the bad guys wore black hats, and the good guys wore white ones. However, real life is not so black and white. (heh) Everyone, no matter how ‘good’ or ‘angelic’ they are, has times when they are no angel. What that means is there are times when…
Asking for trouble
English Phrase: Asking for trouble Sometimes, the things we do are nothing but asking for trouble. To be asking for trouble means to be doing something that is going to get you into trouble. Often, it’s something stupid and foolish. Whether it’s intentional or not, we humans are often our own worst enemies. I can’t…
Get on in years
English Phrase: Get on in years As you begin to get on in years, you realize you can blow a raspberry at the world and get away with it. Young people, I should say younger people because we’re all young at heart, are continually striving to meet the expectations of others. I’ve come to realize…
Poster child
WotD: Poster child It’s not very often that I get stumped, but I had a hard time coming up with a way to explain poster child. Then I got an idea. In yesterday’s post, I discussed dessert and mentioned that some people eat as much as they want and get away with it. Well, in this post, I’ll…
Get away with
Idiom: Get away with (something) As adults, there are many things we can do and get away with which we couldn’t do as children. One of them is eating dessert first. Why save the best for last when you can have it first? Adults always tell kids to eat their vegetables first, and then they can have…
Temptation
Word of the Day: Temptation Temptation is all around us everywhere we look. It’s the urge to do things that we know we should not do. Are you on a diet? It’s hard not to eat chocolate cake or snacks, right? It seems that everyone around you is offering you something sweet to eat. You…
Tacky
Word of the Day: Tacky You’ve probably seen people wearing something tacky that you would not be caught dead wearing. Tacky is often used to describe clothing that is obviously cheap and in bad style. Anything that is fashionably terrible is tacky. Sometimes, entirely by accident, or maybe on purpose, a person will wear something…
