Tag: kill two birds with one stone
On your doorstep
Phrase: On your doorstep Life is short. Why not move to Wakayama, where you will have nature on your doorstep? People are finding themselves changing their lifestyles to accommodate the changes in the world. With the pandemic interrupting everything, people are rethinking their future and how they want to live. When something is described as being…
Kill two birds with one stone
Proverb: Kill two birds with one stone To begin with, we will not be killing any birds today. We won’t be throwing any stones either, for that matter. Full disclosure here, yes, I have killed my fair share of chickens in my youth while growing up on a subsistence farm in Atlantic Canada. Anyway, to…
Go too far
Phrase: Go too far You may not want to admit this, but we all have limits, including you. Conventional thinking tells us we are supposed to push our boundaries to excel. I believe in that wholeheartedly. Also, I think that there is such a thing as going too far. This little phrase here has two…
Lifehack
Word of the Day: Lifehack Some students asked about the meaning of lifehack after it came up in one of the articles for the Adaptability Quotient lesson. Lifehacks are quite popular now because of the busy, time-constrained lifestyles everyone seems to live. Any little trick, tool, or strategy you can adopt to better manage your time…
Take a breather
Expression: Take a breather We all need to take a breather once in a while. No one can work continuously without relaxing for a few minutes and catching their breath. Sure, we all want to be as productive and efficient as possible, but the longer a person works without taking a break to recharge the batteries, the…
Kill time
English Idiom: Kill time Trains are a part of life in Japan. They arrive and depart mainly on schedule, but unfortunately, they are not always there when you need them. What do you do? Well, you have to kill time. Most people these days do something to kill time on their smartphones, such as reading…
How to use Articles Part 2
How to use Articles Part 2 Using articles is not that hard. In English, we only have two, and they are much easier to use than articles in French or German, for example. In English, articles always come before a noun.
