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Idiom: Take centre stage
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
There’s much enjoyment to be found if you are an avid reader of daily news.
You may think it’s the same every day, but it isn’t.
Sure, some topics take centre stage for a few days or weeks, but they soon disappear like a nine days’ wonder, and something else pops up to replace it.
To say that something takes centre stage means that it is in the most important position.
Traditionally newspapers featured these issues on the first page, above the fold.
Look at the excitement we had with Mori’s disparaging remarks against women.
In a nutshell, he said women are too competitive and talk too much in meetings, and that’s why sessions are so long.
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He and all the other elderly men who have stayed in politics well past their prime fail to realize that the revolving scandals that take centre stage in Japanese news occur because they, not women, talk too much.
If these so-called leaders would step aside to let younger generations lead into the future, well, they would not be taking centre stage so much for gaffes and nonsense.
As in the news, the topics or issues that feature in our personal lives change as well.
While for high school seniors or their parents, university entrance exams take centre stage, they mean very little to the rest of us.
In turn, a job search, a wedding, the birth of a child, divorce, a second wedding, retirement, etc., all dominate at different times in our lives.
You see, while it’s enjoyable to track what takes centre stage in the news, it’s also interesting to consider what’s most important in our own lives and how it changes over time.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 70.
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