Tag: sweep under the carpet
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Sweep under the carpet
Idiom: Sweep under the carpet Problems occur in life, and how we face them determines what kind of person we are. We could do the cowardly thing, sweep them under the carpet and hope they go away. The thing is, they never do. The other option is to face the problem head-on, challenge it, deal with it…
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Muckrake
Word of the Day: Muckrake The mass media is changing in Japan and starting to accept the need to muckrake. When I first came here, it was almost unheard of for a newspaper to print anything about a scandal relating to politicians or famous people. It seemed to me that there was something taboo about mentioning…
