執筆者 Modern English | 2013年09月21日 | Phrases
Clerk: That will be $5.00. Clara: I’ll get it. Emmett: No, allow me. “Allow me,” is something people say to be polite when they do a small favor for someone, such as pulling out a chair or opening a door. It could be rephrased as “Let me do that for you.” In a longer...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年09月14日 | Phrases
“I love to make my friends smile.” Often we use the word “make” to mean “to force someone or something to do something”, but this is not always what it means. It’s good to make someone smile, but you shouldn’t force them! “Make” means that the smile would not have...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年09月07日 | Phrases
Can you drop me off at the movie theater on your way to the store?” To drop someone or something off, you take it somewhere and leave it there. It is convenient to drop people or things off on your way to somewhere else. If you stay along with them, you have not...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年08月31日 | Phrases
Teenager: “I’m going to be an artist!” Parent: “You’ll never make a living doing art!” Making a living is earning enough money to live on. If someone has a job that they do not enjoy, but it makes them enough money to pay all their bills, they might say, “Eh, it’s a...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年08月24日 | Phrases
“You sure are crabby today. Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed?” The story is that if you get up on the wrong side of the bed, you will be in a bad mood for the rest of the day. It is not clear which side of the bed is wrong. If you are grumpy all the time,...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年08月10日 | Phrases
I told you not to ride so fast. You’ve all but killed that poor horse!” “All but” means “almost” or “very nearly”. It’s used to say you have come just short of doing something, or something that is very close to true. For example, “all but impossible” means something...
