Today we’re going to look at the word “access“.
If you have access to something such as information or equipment, it means you have the opportunity or right to see it or use it. If you have access to a building, it means you are able or allowed to go into that building.
Today I’m going to discuss the words “to fit” and “to suit” and how they are different.
When someone tells you to get over something or someone, they really mean “Don’t let the past ruin your life” or “It’s time to move on”.
Did you see the news about a Japanese billionaire announcing his intentions to travel to the moon with SpaceX? Actually, it seems more like a travel “around the moon” rather than “to the moon” because their plan is to circle the moon without landing on it.
When you come back from holidays or long weekends, you typically speak with your friends at work or school about what you did during the holidays.
Are you familiar with the expression “help yourself”? You may hear this phrase when you’re invited to dinner by a friend. There’s a whole bunch of food on the table and your host says “Help yourself”. That means “Enjoy your meal”. In other words, you can eat, without asking, to your heart’s content.
I spent the whole week working with a group of business people from the US. I was their interpreter. They were on an extremely tight schedule, visiting half a dozen customers or prospects each day. We hardly found the time to even have lunch. Then, one of the gentlemen said, “That’s okay, we’ll just grab a sandwich”.
US President Donald Trump used an interesting phrase in his recent tweet when he said he had watched low-rated Morning Joe for the first time in a long time.
Let me give you another phrase from the movie Frozen.
Are you familiar with the idiom “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”?