Blue moon over Brooklyn. This is the third full moon in a season with four full moons.There are two kinds of blue moons, & each kind by itself is quite rare, which is why wesay ONCE IN A BLUE MOON when we talk about something that very seldom happens. I was PSYCHED (excited) to learn… Read more »
The last intersection I have to jog across before heading down to the subway. I’m always running late in the morning. One day, I was so late that I had to run to the subway to make a train because the next one would have been too late. I was OUT OF BREATH and had… Read more »
Do you recognize the idiom in this cover headline? It’s a play on words. A STONE’S THROW AWAY means something is not far, or it’s very close. For example, you can say “The beach is just A STONE’S THROW AWAY from my house.” This story is about the city’s plans to replace the old, hand-cut… Read more »
Pedestrians ON THEIR WAY to work on a rainy weekday morning in Midtown Manhattan hoping nothing gets IN THEIR WAY as they rush to their destinations. These two expressions, ON ONE’S WAY and IN ONE’S WAY, differ by just one preposition, but they are very different in meaning. When we say I’m ON MY WAY,… Read more »
I GOT A KICK OUT OF reading this sign at a cafe inside Grand CentralStation and seeing people pay just 5 cents for coffee. There were long lines of customers taking advantage of the offer. I’m so busy these days that I GET A KICK OUT OF DOING anything out of my routine. Last Friday, I… Read more »
I’m on my third week on a new schedule and I’m still getting the hang of it. I still teach until 10 at night. However, instead of starting at noon, I now start at 10 a.m., which makes for a long day and means I have to go to bed as soon as I get… Read more »
The expression making it to somewhere means being able to get to or arrive somewhere. Let’s take a look at the following examples.1. Did you make it to the party? 2. The manager says if she doesn’t start making it to work on time, they might have to let her go.3. They never made it… Read more »
It’s been awhile since I worked on this story. It began with a family planning a trip to the Grand Canyon, which by the way, is one of my favorite places. This is the eighth episode, and it’s titled Housesitting for Jim and Linda. Our main characters are Jake and his wife Katy, their two… Read more »
