Tag: hurry up and wait
A watched pot never boils
Idiom: A watched pot never boils While waiting for something to happen, we can think about nothing else, which makes the time pass even more slowly. That’s where today’s idiom, a watched pot never boils, comes in. A watched pot never boils means for someone who is waiting for something to happen, time will pass…
Bureaucrat
Word of the Day: Bureaucrat Ask a young child what they want to be when they grow up, and they’ll tell you they want to be a firefighter or a race car driver. None of them will say, “I want to be a bureaucrat.” A bureaucrat is often thought of as a faceless government worker who…
