Tag: incarcerate
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Slippery slope
WotD: Slippery slope Have you ever played the board game Snakes and Ladders? If you have, then you can understand the meaning of slippery slope well enough. You roll the dice, and if you land on the bottom of a ladder, you can climb up and get ahead. Landing on the head of a snake,…
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Have it together
Phrase: Have it together We all live life at our own pace. Some of us get it together reasonably quickly, while others take longer than usual. Those who have it together live sensibly. They have a roof over their heads, can pay the bills and no longer act foolishly and make mistakes as they did in their youth. That’s…
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Catch red-handed
English Idiom: Catch red-handed For some reason, I have a vague memory of a children’s program from about 35 years ago, which was using a skit to teach the idiom red-handed to young viewers like I was at the time. A little boy was continually sneaking his hand into the cookie jar to steal cookies…
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Incarcerate
Word of the Day: Incarcerate Incarcerate is a word that you will often hear in American police or court dramas. You will also hear it on the news, read it in the newspapers and also whenever you hear people talk about putting perpetrators in jail and prisons. Incarcerate means to put someone in prison, and,…
