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Idiom Series #4 | American English in Real Life
Priya: Tom says he’s really sorry he forgot my birthday. Aisha: That’s nice. Did he do anything about it? Priya: Well… he said he’d take me to dinner. That was three…
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Idiom Series #3 | American English in Real Life
Nina has spent ten minutes typing a message to her landlord about a leak under the kitchen sink. Where the water is coming from, how big the puddle is, which pipe…
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Idiom Series #2 | American English in Real Life
In Arthur Miller’s 1949 play Death of a Salesman, there is a painful moment between a father and his son. Biff, the son, finally tells his father the truth as he…
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Idiom Series #1 | American English in Real Life
Here’s a question I like to ask learners: on the day something bad happens, can you call it a blessing in disguise?