Deganawideh A hatchet is a small axe (or ax). So, why would someone bury it? Well, this idiom comes from indigenous North Americans. The Iroquois leaders, Deganawideh and Hiwatha convinced the Five Nations to form a confederacy. The Five Nations was a collective of five nations united under the Iroquois Confederacy. The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, … Read More
Recently I bought a gift for a friend online. The website had interesting titles for its categories. One was called, “Interesting Little Product.” However, I ended up purchasing a product from “Sell like hot cakes.” I think that might have influenced my decision. I thought it was funny and cute. The term, selling like hotcakes … Read More
My friend and I were talking about rhetoric and logical fallacies. One of us brought up cherry-picking. I think it was me. Cherry-picking is when you only use data that helps your point, but you disregard the rest. You only use the best data for your point. Cherry-picking can be found in many logical fallacies. … Read More
The 2021 (alternatively the 2020) Olympic Games have begun and whenever Korea participates in a sporting event as a country, we hear a lot of “대한민국 파이팅.” 파이팅 can be Romanized to “Hwaiting”, “Painting”, or (more often) “Fighting.” For my foreign readers who are not familiar with this term, it is a remark used to … Read More
Make a stink means to cause a disturbance or to loudly protest (complain about) something. There are many forms of this phrase that you can see at the end of this article. Thesaurus.com gives an additional 39 synonyms for make a stink. Example: The child made a stink in the store because her father wouldn’t … Read More
I’m usually a very productive person, but I do take time to relax. And for me, watching YouTube gaming channels helps me to relax. It is also where I am introduced to a lot of new language. One word I have heard a lot lately is stonks. For example, apqLIVE used it in his video … Read More
My job can be pretty busy sometimes. Even when there is some free time, supervisors like to schedule meetings. But there are also times when things get really busy. A supervisor will have a meeting with us and assign some work. Then, another supervisor will ask us to help with something else. We also might … Read More
A valediction is a way of ending a conversation or letter. It is a word or phrase to say goodbye. The opposite of valediction is salutation. A valediction can also refer to the speech given at a graduation. There are many types of valediction including goodbye, sincerely, your friend, cordially, etc. Your signature (or printed … Read More
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch is an English proverb about expectations. The phrase warns us against counting on something to happen. We shouldn’t take things for granted (expecting a certain result). The proverb is an allusion to a chicken farmer who expects all his eggs to hatch and become chickens. With natural incubation, … Read More
I recently watched a video where the presenter was complaining about idioms. He seemed to be distraught at the fact that idioms exist. If you have seen my other posts here, you probably know I have the opposite opinion. I think they are very interesting and learning about them can show us a bit about … Read More
