Tag: upheaval
The only constant in life is change
Phrase: The only constant in life is change The quote, “The only constant in life is change,” is attributed to Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived from about 540 BCE to about 480 BCE. It’s not hard to see why the idea of change would be so important to him—he lived through an era…
Lead time
Word of the Day: Lead time If you look up lead time in a dictionary such as the Cambridge Dictionary, it will give you a boring definition of what it is: ‘the time between the design of a product and its production, or between ordering a product and receiving it.’ If you think twice about it,…
On the fence
English Idiom: (To be) on the fence So here we have a lovely picture of a cat sitting on a fence. Cats always do this, and nobody usually bothers or judges them. Now, if we close our eyes and picture the image of a person sitting on the fence, today’s idiomatic expression comes to mind. If…
Upheaval
Word of the Day: Upheaval Think about the word for a second. Upheaval means great change, not great as in wonderful, but great as in significant. Earthquakes or other natural or even human-made disasters, such as wars, cause a lot of upheaval in people’s lives. Houses are damaged, families have to move, and kids change…