Tag: saved by the bell

  • Hot off the press

    Hot off the press

    Idiom: Hot off the press Whenever a new post is published here at ArtisanEnglish.jp, I send a notice. The notice lets everyone who applied to receive them know that a new post is available hot off the press. That is your idiom for the day, folks – hot off the press. Anyone who knows me knows that…

  • Saved by the bell

    Saved by the bell

    Idiom: Saved by the bell Saved by the bell is an expression used in English when a situation suddenly ends, and you don’t have to do something you didn’t want to do in the first place. We’ve all been saved by the bell at one time in our lives. Perhaps you were asked a difficult question in a…

  • The lesser of two evils

    The lesser of two evils

    Idiom: The lesser of two evils Making hard decisions is a part of life. The decision-making process becomes even more complicated when we have to choose the lesser of two evils. What I mean is that when you have to choose between two things, and neither one of them is good, you have to accept the lesser…