Jan 23, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: a weight off my mind The last few weeks have been particularly stressful. Firstly, there’s my father-in-law, who suffered a terrible fall at the end of last year. He hit his head as he fell, which caused bleeding in the brain. He had to have an operation to reduce the pressure and it left him in a very bad way. […]
Jan 22, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: bite off more than you can chew About a year ago, after a chance meeting with a friend of a friend, who had a beautiful Grade II listed building in Bloomsbury, a historic part of central London, we rashly decided that it would be a great idea to start a language school. To give you some idea of quite how poorly prepared […]
May 5, 2016 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: against all odds / against the odds If you haven’t heard already, Leicester City won the Premier League title this week against all odds. They have one of the lowest wage bills in the league and the cost of the whole squad was less than Manchester City paid for one player. At the beginning of the season, the odds of them winning […]
Apr 25, 2016 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: come in for criticism President Obama has come in for criticism from BREXIT campaigners after commenting on the upcoming referendum The government has come in for criticism for failing to spend enough on flood defences. The plan has come in for heavy criticism because of the huge costs of the project. When does a collocation become a chunk? The […]
Jul 2, 2015 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: What time…? Now, some of you may have been thinking that ‘chunk of the day’ had turned into ‘chunk of the month’ – or even ‘chunk of the year’! I’m afraid we’ve been a bit busy and perhaps a bit depressed by how in the run up to the election has turned into the aftermath of the election. You […]
