Tag: keep your nose to the grindstone
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…
Putter around
Word of the Day: Putter around The evenings and early mornings are beginning to get quite chilly here in Wakayama. Soon there’ll be no more puttering around in the garden for me. Can you believe it’s already November first? Where does the time go? Halloween 2019 is now history, and we can look forward to…
Keep your nose to the grindstone
English Idiom: Keep your nose to the grindstone Keeping their noses to the grindstone is one of the things that the Japanese do best. When you keep your nose to the grindstone, you concentrate on your work for a long time. Japanese are specialists at persevering with a task until the job is done and…
