Tag: matter at hand
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The cream rises to the top
Idiom: The cream rises to the top The idiom the cream rises to the top means that the most skilled people and best ideas are more noticeable than the others because they rise to the top and stand out. Have you ever enjoyed a glass of fresh milk? I don’t mean pasteurized milk in a carton sold…
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Keep your eye on the ball
English Idiom: Keep your eye on the ball If you keep your eye on the ball, you remain focused on the matter at hand. Keeping your eye on the ball is quite important. The holidays are coming up, and it is very easy to become distracted at this time of year. However, they have not…
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Landslide victory
English Idiom: Landslide victory It is Thursday, so I am back with yet another English idiom. I’m going to use another political analogy. I use many political situations to explain phrases because idioms are continuously used in the English-speaking world to explain what is happening in politics. Idioms are also regularly used in sports, and…
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Go off on a Tangent
Idiom: Go off on a tangent Frequently, at ArtisanEnglish.jp, students and I go off on a tangent. This does not mean that we take a trip together; it means that we talk about something unrelated to the matter at hand. Go off on a tangent means to begin talking about something unrelated to the original…
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Matter at Hand
Phrase: Matter at Hand Hey, it is Monday again. Congratulations, everybody. You have survived another weekend, and now you can go to work for another week. YAY! Anyway, I want to get to the matter at hand for the day and not talk about the weekend. Five days a week, I add a new post to…
