執筆者 Modern English | 2016年01月09日 | Phrases
“I thought you weren’t coming to this party.” “I wasn’t, but I changed my mind.” “At first Dad didn’t want to get a dog, but now he’s changed his mind.” When your opinion changes or you change a decision you...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年12月19日 | Phrases
“Can you make sure the dog’s water dish is full before you go to bed?” “Make sure you write your name on your homework, or I won’t know whose it is!” To make sure of something is to check that it is done. To make sure you do...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年12月12日 | Phrases
“She wants a puppy really badly.” “She says she doesn’t care about him, but I can tell she’s got it bad.” Sometimes “bad” can be used as an intensifier for something that isn’t necessarily bad. An intense desire...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年12月05日 | Phrases
“It may come as a surprise American exchange students, but in Japan, students clean their own classrooms as a matter of course.” A matter of course is something that is routine and unremarkable, to be expected....
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年11月28日 | Phrases
“The first time I heard this song, I thought it was annoying, but my kids kept playing it and it grew on me.” If something grows on you, you don’t like it at first, but over time you start to like it more. This can be true of many things—a movie you...
執筆者 Modern English | 2015年11月21日 | Phrases
“Nobody saw him do it, so he got off scot-free.” If you do something wrong but receive no punishment or consequences, we say you got off scot-free. The word “Scot” nowadays means a person from Scotland, but in this phrase it comes from...
