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  • 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…

  • Matter at Hand

    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…