Tag: put away
Wolf down
WotD: Wolf down Working as an assistant language teacher (ALT) in Japan is a great way to expose yourself to the grassroots of Japanese culture. You’ll see how students in sports clubs wolf down their food with unbelievable speed. When you wolf food down, you eat as much as you can as quickly as possible…
Like a drunken sailor
Idiom: (Spend money) like a drunken sailor Money! You can never have enough! Most of us try to save as much as possible, while others spend money like a drunken sailor. From the moment we learn the significance of money and want to stand on our own two feet, we enter into a ceaseless quest…
Hand-to-mouth
WotD: Hand-to-mouth A common theme of my posts seems to be money. Today is no different because a hand-to-mouth existence is a tough way to live. Some of us are lucky enough to have managed to put away a little rainy day fund for unexpected emergencies. Refrigerators don’t break down very often, but when they do, we cannot delay…
Partners in crime
Phrase: Partners in crime There can be different meanings to the expression partners in crime. In the literal sense, this phrase means people who plan to break the law together. They could be scheming to rob a bank, steal gold or defraud seniors. Either way, like the two vicious-looking characters above, they are partners in crime. Another…
The long arm of the law
Expression: The long arm of the law If you do something wrong, the police can reach out and catch you. In its primary sense, this is what the long arm of the law means. The long arm of the law refers to the ability of police or those in authority to reach and capture criminals no matter…
Put away
WotD: Put away As you can probably guess put away is a phrasal verb, and it means to, well, putting something somewhere. This phrasal verb has various meanings. It can mean to store something after you have used it as in we teach our children to put away their toys before they go to bed.…
A pretty penny
English Phrase: A pretty penny When we describe something as costing a pretty penny, we mean it must have been expensive. The above sports car is definitely on the high end of the cost scale. If you’ve managed to put away quite a bit of cash, you may be able to afford it, but that…
