Tag: hindsight is 20/20
Youth is wasted on the young
Saying: Youth is wasted on the young A saying in English goes youth is wasted on the young. At first, you may think that sounds strange. I mean, youth and young are interdependent, right? If you are a youth, you are young; if you are young, you must be a youth. So, how can a…
Put (someone) up on a pedestal
Phrase: Put (someone) up on a pedestal Around America and in Britain, statues were hauled down from pedestals and even thrown into harbours in some cases. I used to think the fall of Saddam’s statue in Iraq was pretty cool. This all just goes to show the danger of putting someone up on a pedestal.…
Turning point
WotD: Turning point A turning point is a point at which something turns. Thank you for reading, and have a beautiful day. No, wait! A turning point is when a significant change takes place. Often we don’t know we’ve reached a turning point until it has happened. I’m only kidding. It’s a little more complicated…
Hindsight is 20/20
Idiom: Hindsight is 20/20 A large number of students find the idiom hindsight is 20/20 challenging. For one thing, they don’t know how to read the numbers, and for another, they don’t know what the numbers mean. I think that quite a few native English speakers may not be able to explain the origin of…
Lax
Word of the Day: Lax The initial response to the coronavirus pandemic was lax, and mistakes were made. There is no doubt about it. We can all see that now. Hindsight is 20/20 (twenty-twenty), as they say, and there is nothing we can do about the past. When rules are not enforced properly and carefully,…
