Tag: hard done by
Count your blessings
Phrase: Count your blessings The next time you’re feeling stressed out or a little depressed because it seems like the whole world is against you, count your blessings. In other words, try to be grateful for what you have because, as my father told me in one of his moments of clarity, “No matter how…
Hard done by
Idiom: Hard done by Probably many of us are feeling hard done by at the moment. With all of the travel limitations, cancelled plans and staying at home, it’s only natural to think that we’ve been mistreated. In the West, we’ve learned to love our freedom. Here we haven’t experienced any real hardship on a…
Pull yourself up by the bootstraps
Idiom: Pull yourself up by the bootstraps Students enjoy hearing about the lives of their English teachers. It provides more cultural and personal insight. I have always been independent. Here’s how I learned to pull myself up by the bootstraps. Before that, though, to pull yourself up by the bootstraps means to improve your circumstances…
What goes around comes around
Idiom: What goes around comes around While English has become the lingua franca for international communication, it is not the best language in the world. Many other languages can express complex thoughts and ideas in a single word, whereas English requires a long-winded expression. This is probably why the English language has become very good…
