Daniel - The Curious Guide

1. “What should we call it, a day trip or a holiday?”
2. “It’s six o’clock. Let’s call it a day.”

Here’s a fair question for any English learner to ask: teeth don’t have skin, so what does by the skin of your teeth mean?

Maya and her brother Leo haven’t spoken in two years. It started with an argument about money, and neither of them remembers the details anymore. Then, at their grandmother’s birthday dinner, Leo walk

In 1635, an English poet named Francis Quarles published a book of poems called Emblemes. In it are two lines about hard work:

Think about the first minute of a new class, a job interview or a party where you know nobody. Everyone is polite, quiet and a little stiff. Someone has to say the first word. What do you call that mo

Search online for the origin of break a leg and you’ll find a dozen confident answers. It comes from the man who shot Abraham Lincoln. It comes from a famous French actress. It comes from the way acto

Omar has just finished three hours of final exams. He doesn’t want to talk, read or think. He grabs a basketball, heads to the court and shoots hoops for an hour. When his roommate asks what he’s doin

You’ve probably seen the scene in a war movie. A wounded soldier lies on a table. There’s no medicine for the pain, so someone puts a bullet between his teeth and says, “Bite on this.”

Over the years I’ve heard many learners say something like this:

Aisha has been waiting at the café for forty minutes. Her friend Leo finally rushes in, smiles, and says: “Better late than never, right?”