A future event is up in the air if it’s not definite or if something about it (the time, the place) is not certain. For example, if you’re planning a party, but you’re not sure if it’s going to happen for some reason, you can say, “The party is up in the air right now…. Read more »
Alright, this one is easy because it’s similar to yesterday’s expression. When you’re going overboard on something, you’re getting carried away, which means you’re doing more than you originally planned or expected. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re getting caught up in something; it just means that you are overdoing whatever activity you are engaged in…. Read more »
Last month, on our May 25 blog, we talked about getting caught up in something. Do you remember what to get caught up in something means? If you don’t, it’s ok; but check out the May 25 blog first before reading on. It’s good to review old lessons now and then, anyway. Getting carried away… Read more »
Calling it a day means to stop doing something for today to be continued another day. This is another idiomatic expression that’s commonly used. You can say it anytime you want to stop working or studying or practicing something, and you want to finish what you’re doing some other day. For example, if you’ve been… Read more »
This phrase is an idiomatic way of saying stop or quit usually when you are tired of doing something and don’t want to do it anymore. For example, when you are trying to fix your car and you can’t figure out how to do it, after a couple of hours, you can say “that’s it…. Read more »
Yesterday, we learned the phrase it’s high time. Today, we’ll learn a similar phrase: it’s about time, which can have the exact same meaning and used the same way as the expression, it’s high time. From our example yesterday, when a mother wants her teenaged son to put his money in the bank, she can… Read more »
If you tell a friend,”it’s high time you learned how to drive,” this means that your friend doesn’t know how to drive yet, and you’re suggesting that your friend really learn how to drive now. If you tell someone,”it’s high time I got a raise at work,” it implies that you have been expecting a… Read more »
This phrase is similar to the one we learned yesterday: about to. However, while about to is widely used, on the verge of is a little less common, a little more formal and sounds somewhat dramatic. Also, while you can use about to for just about anything, using on the verge of is a little… Read more »
We’ve seen this expression before on a past blog. Since it’s a widely used and idiomatic phrase, we’re going to focus on it today. About to + verb means getting ready to do something or something is almost going to happen. For example, you can look up to a cloudy sky and say it’s about… Read more »
Cutting something out can mean removing or deleting something. For example, if you are writing an essay and you don’t like one paragraph in your essay, you can cut out that section or cut that section out. People who make movies often cut some parts out when they are putting the film together. However, there’s… Read more »
