Tag: get the ball rolling
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Play on words
Phrase: Play on words If you are a male, the hardest thing to understand in a foreign language is a female. The second hardest thing to understand in a foreign tongue, which applies to both men and women, is a joke. I’m not going to talk about women here because I’ll only get myself into…
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Winds of change
Phrase: Winds of change Change is one of the few constants in the world. Politicians campaign on it; people resist it, but inevitably, it happens just as the sun is sure to rise and the tides turn. The phrase the winds of change describes the feeling you experience when you anticipate change is about to…
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Get the ball rolling
Idiom: Get the ball rolling Hey there, everyone. Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. Here in Japan, it’s common to say you had a ‘sleeping New Year.’ It means all you did during the New Year’s holidays was eat, sleep and drink. That’s what I did, and I loved…
