English vocabulary in the news: brain gain

While I was browsing the news this weekend, I came across an interesting piece of vocabulary in this article. ‘Brain gain‘ is when a country attracts a lot of well-educated people to live there. The opposite is ‘brain drain‘, which is when a lot of well-educated people leave a country.

There’s another interesting expression in the article. The author mentions that the situation is ‘as old as the hills‘. If something is ‘as old as the hills‘, it has existed for a very long time.

Today’s image is by Sanja Gjenero.