Imagine your parents think you're too immature for your age and therefore should learn about obligations and responsibility. You two see in making your son join the army a great opportunity to make a man of him. That'll teach him how things work in this world and surely will become more responsible.
When you make a man of someone, it's like you're turning a young male into an adult. But that's not always the case. You can be a male adult, but still very childish. Maybe an experience like getting married or having children will make a man of you. That's it for today. Take care!
When you're part of the furniture of some place, it means you've been there for so long you've become a natural part of it. Many teenagers spend much time of their days in front of their computer and stuck in a room. When their moms call them out, they may say they seem like part of the furniture, because they never leave that room. And that's the expression of today. Take care!
Sometime it is difficult to get out of bed in the morning and start your day isn't it? Especially for those people that are definitely not morning people, it becomes a nightmare to have the alarm ring indicating it's time to go to work or school. One day, you get very late at your office, and your secretary asks what happened that caused so much delay. You said it was hard to crank yourself up this morning to get to work on time. I hope you're the boss in this case, because otherwise you'd be fired at the second minute.Have you ever had to crank someone up when they were feeling down? Maybe you have a friend who's just come out of a relationship and he still likes her. He's been stuck at home without wanting to leave or eat or do anything productive for very long, until you have the idea of cranking him up. You take to his house all the video games he's always enjoyed and you can finally make him forget for a few moments how miserable his life has been lately. That's it for today. Take care!
So imagine you've been working in the same office for a very long time. You are there almost everyday, and leaves at night only to go to sleep and return first thing in the morning. You feel like that office is so part of you that you've become part of the furniture.When you're part of the furniture of some place, it means you've been there for so long you've become a natural part of it. Many teenagers spend much time of their days in front of their computer and stuck in a room. When their moms call them out, they may say they seem like part of the furniture, because they never leave that room. And that's the expression of today. Take care!
Imagine you have a plan that's very likely to go wrong. Your friend have said you should give up on that idea, but you're not giving up until you get that done. Here's what you say: I'm going forward with my plan no matter what happens later.To go forward with something means to do something that is planned. Maybe you spent a lot of time thinking about whether or not you should carry on with that plan, but now that you've made up your mind, you're going forward with that plan no matter what. That's it for now. Take care!
First of all, expand the image by clicking on it to better read what's in the balloons. We're talking today about the expression "behind schedule". And as you can see on the image above, there's a situation where the expression was used in. We could say that they're very late with their project and are almost falling behind schedule. That mean they are almost failing to do their project by the appointed time.One day at college I fell behind schedule because I was off sick. So the teacher allowed me as an exception to bring the project and present it at a later time so my grade wouldn't be affected. Have you ever gone through a situation like that? Leave your comments down bellow.
You have a child that loves to play with fire. You've warned him several times how dangerous it is for him to set on fire everything she gets his hands on, but he seems not to care. One day, while he's playing with some matches, he gets burned and goes crying after you. While you're going through the basic emergency kit to help him out with the burn, you tell him: I've told you million times that playing with fire is asking for trouble. I hope you've learned your lesson this time.When you ask for trouble, you behave stupidly in a way that's likely to cause problems for you. Now imagine you go to a party and the driver that took you all there spends the night drinking a lot. When it's time to go home, he wants to take control of the wheel, but you say "drinking and driving is just asking for trouble". So since you didn't take any alcohol during the party, you take the keys and drive everybody home safely. And that's it for today's post. Take care!
