Tag: the courage of your convictions
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Pushover
Word of the Day: Pushover Many Japanese are wired to seek approval and avoid confrontation. However, we become pushovers when we allow others to walk all over us. Times have changed. Japanese are overworked, underpaid, and taken advantage of in the workplace daily. Just because you don’t think you’re being abused doesn’t mean you are…
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In your bones
Idiom: In your bones Can you feel it? I can. I can feel it in my bones. Something big is coming. I can feel it in my bones that something even bigger than COVID is coming down the pike – something we must prepare for. Feeling something in your bones is an idiomatic expression that…
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Bet your bottom dollar
Phrase: Bet your bottom dollar I’m not a betting man, but when the Japanese government approved Integrated Resorts (IR) with gambling casinos, I told my wife she could bet her bottom dollar there would be corruption and scandal. Well, there are no IRs yet, but the corruption and scandal are here all the same. On…
