Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Friday, 24 March 2017
TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES
to fend for oneself to take care of and provide for yourself, without depending on anyone else, without help.
Now
that the children are old enough
to fend for themselves,
we can go away on holiday on our own.
Friday, 17 March 2017
IT SUDDENLY DAWNED ON HER...
to
dawn on somebody if a fact dawns
on you, you understand it after a period of
not understanding it;
if something dawns on you, you realize it for the first time; to
become known or obvious to someone, often suddenly:
It
finally dawned
on
him that she’d been joking.
It
was several months before the
truth finally
dawned
on me.
Little
by little
it dawned on
Archie that his wife was not coming back.
photocopies from 14th March
photocopies from 16th March
Sunday, 12 March 2017
SMALL FRY
small fry noun
1. Small children.
2. Young or small fish.
3. People or things regarded as
unimportant:
They
may be key players in their own company, but they're small fry in the
industry itself.
adjective
1. minor, unimportant a
small–fry politician
2 of, relating to, or intended for
children; childish
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
THE LOOMING CRISIS
to loom
to appear as a large,
often frightening or unclear shape or object; to appear as a vague
form, especially one that is large or threatening; (of
an event regarded as threatening) to seem about to happen:
Dark
storm clouds loomed on the horizon.
Vehicles
loomed out of the darknes
There
is a crisis looming
looming
adjective (of
something unwanted or unpleasant) about to happen soon and
causing worry; imminent:
The
looming crisis
Photocopies from 2nd March
Photocopies from 7th March
Monday, 27 February 2017
NEST EGG
nest
egg noun
- a natural or artificial egg left in a nest especially to induce a hen to continue to lay there
- an amount of money that has been saved or kept for a special purpose; a fund of money accumulated as a reserve; an amount of money that is saved over a usually long period of time to pay for something in the future :
They
built up a nest egg for their son's college education.
The allusion is to The connection
between putting a real or china egg into a hen's nest to encourage
her to lay. and the 'savings' meaning isn't exactly clear. It may be
that the idea was that the egg that was put into the nest could be
later retrieved, after the hen had laid.
Sources:
Photocopies from 21st February
Friday, 17 February 2017
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