Tag: lax
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Walk in someone else’s footsteps
Expression: Walk in someone else’s footsteps Hello, and welcome to another week of posts here at ArtisanEnglish.jp. Based on your perspective, walking in someone else’s footsteps could be the right thing to do or the easy way to get ahead. I say this because when you follow in another person’s footsteps, you do the same…
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Half measures
WotD: Half-measures If you are going to do something, do it right the first time. Don’t play around with half-measures. Half measures are actions or plans that only achieve part of what you intended to achieve. In my personal opinion, in Western countries, the coronavirus pandemic has been as bad as it has been due…
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Close to home
Phrase: Close to home In the West, we perceive many world happenings as occurring over there. ‘There’ being anywhere that is not the West. Events are starting to hit close to home. When something affects you personally or deeply, it hits close to home. We have either denied or ignored climate change for a long…
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Sort itself out
Phrase: Sort itself out Are you a believer in pre-crastination or procrastination? There are merits and demerits for both, naturally. Which one you support depends partly on whether you like to take charge and tackle a problem head-on or sit back and wait to see if the problem will sort itself out. When a problem or…
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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,…
