Tag: slow-motion train wreck
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Land on your feet
Phrase: Land on your feet Hopefully, if you’re reading this, you’ve made it through the pandemic and landed on your feet. It was quite a trial by fire there for a while, wasn’t it? Although I have to admit Japan was not as negatively affected as other countries. Only two people I know, one online…
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A nail in the coffin
Idiom: A nail in the coffin Massive failures are composed of many smaller failures. If we go back and examine why something failed, we will find many small reasons that accumulated until the thing was destroyed. In the idiom, a nail in the coffin, ‘a nail’ is a minor failure and ‘the coffin’ is the…
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Hit home
Word of the Day: Hit home It happens to the best of us. At first, we think an unexpected change will be as good as a rest. Then reality hits home. When something hits home a person realizes that a situation is much worse, painful or miserable than they initially thought it would be. I…
