Tag: task at hand

  • Mesmerize

    Mesmerize

    WotD: Mesmerize It must be tough to be a hypnotist these days. Everyone is so busy multitasking while using their smartphones that you can’t get an opportunity to mesmerize them. Perhaps that’s just what the problem is. Everyone is so mesmerized by smartphones that they can’t direct their attention to anything else for any length of time. When’s the…

  • Go off on a Tangent

    Go off on a Tangent

    Idiom: Go off on a tangent Frequently, at ArtisanEnglish.jp, students and I go off on a tangent. This does not mean that we take a trip together; it means that we talk about something unrelated to the matter at hand. Go off on a tangent means to begin talking about something unrelated to the original…