Tag: reap

  • You reap what you sow

    You reap what you sow

    Proverb: You reap what you sow The adage, you reap what you sow, is one of the most important lessons we can learn in life. It means that if you put in hard work and determination, you will eventually reap the rewards of your efforts. Hard work pays off in many ways: happiness, wealth, and…

  • Reap

    Reap

    Word of the Day: Reap In my stay-the-course post, I mentioned that people who work hard reap the rewards in the end. It is quite common to see the word reap used in the phrase reap the rewards. Reap has two meanings: 1) to harvest a crop. Example: Farmers reap their rice in the fall.…

  • Stay the course

    Stay the course

    English Phrase: Stay the course For the next five days, I’d like to introduce you to idioms that should help motivate you to continue studying English. We’ll start today with stay the course. We can say that staying the course is very similar to the Japanese がんばって because it means to continue to do something until you…