How are you celebrating New Year’s Eve this year? Are you going to a party? If so, these nine fun English ‘party’ expressions and idioms will come in useful for you! 1. the life and soul of a party Meaning: a person who really enjoys a party and encourages others to enjoy it, too Example: …
Do you think improving your English is too general as an idea for a New Year’s resolution? If so, maybe it would be better for you to break it down into some smaller, more specific resolutions. Here are my top ten English New Year’s resolutions to help you reach your goals next year: 1. Keep …
It’s been an unusual weekend for me. The World of Words was hacked on Saturday night, which was a bit of a shock. I only thought hackers tried to get into big sites or sites that post offensive information. I guess nobody is safe nowadays, though. Anyway, things are back to normal now (I hope) …
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Most guys have imagined what it would be like to be a secret agent at some point in their lives. The man in this article seems to have taken things a bit too far, though! There were some interesting driving-related expressions in the article, too. The first is ‘raced past‘. This means to move past …
Everyone seems to have a facebook account nowadays but I’ve noticed that twitter is becoming more and more popular, too. It even has its own new vocabulary related to it. We can call the people who have lots of followers on twitter ‘the twitterati‘ and each little message they write is called a ‘tweet‘. ‘Tweet‘ …
It’s amazing how many English idioms and expressions come from sports. All of the idioms and expressions below originated as sporting terms but nowadays we can hear them used to talk about a wide range of situations related to life and work. to reach the home straight Meaning: to be nearly finished doing something Example: …
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A few months ago, I shared some tips on how speaking more slowly can help make your English sound more fluent. Yesterday, I spotted an article on the BBC news website about some scientists who have been analysing what makes the perfect voice. I think the point they make in the article about pausing at …
A doughnut is a tasty snack, right? Yes, it is but it can also be something quite different. It’s a kind of trick people do in cars making them spin around in a very small space. In this article on the ABC news website, it seems that the police were not fooled by a man …