My English blog

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

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You should never lie women; the following story will tell you why

What follows is a really good lovely story

 The fate map was the name I gave to my first story I wrote when I was 16. It ranked first in "KHARAZMI"  festival by that year. To study the story in details, go to the continue part

 Don't say : My English book is with my brother

Say : My brother has my English book

Don't say : Amy took a good mark in the test

Say : Amy got a good mark in the test

Don't say : Lucy is reading Algebra in her room

Say : Lucy is studying Algebra in her room

Don't say : Chris took out his hat

Say : Chris took off his hat

Don't say : Please remember me to give it back

Say : Please remind me to give it back

Don't say : I was hearing his CDs

Say : I was listening to his CDs

Don't say : He was seeing out of the window

Say : He was looking out of the window

Don't say : The ship drowned in the ocean

Say : The ship sank in the ocean

Mayflower, the only resources they had to use were those from the ships on which they came. To make windmills for power they used strips of the sails from the ships – in those days called sheets. The first windmills were constructed with three “blades” to catch the wind, but it was found that in a strong wind that the blades would turn in a rickety fashion. Reconstruction of the 4-blade windmill soon replaced the rickety ones. Thus, when a person walked in a “rickety”fashion being drunk, he (or she) was labeled as “three sheets to the wind”.

Three sheets to the wind (to be drunk) Again, when the Pilgrims arrived on the

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Keep your nose to the grindstone (to keep working hard). i

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In colonial America without electricity, the Pilgrims’ main staple food was corn. To get the greatest use from the corn it was ground to a powder known today as cornmeal. The corn kernels were poured in to a stone “bowl” in which the giant wheel (the millstone) rested. The wheel was turned from above by the power of a windmill. In order to get the corn in to the bowl, the “miller” had to pour it in from the back side which made his nose get quite close to the turning millstone.

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In its original form, to throw up the sponge, this appears in "The Slang Dictionary" (1860). The reference is to the sponges used to cleanse combatants' faces at prize fights. One contestant's manager throwing in the sponge would signal that as that side had had enough the sponge was no longer required. In recent years, towels have been substituted for sponges at fights, and consequently in the expression too

To throw in the towel / sponge

Boil this one down to 'be prepared'. At the time in history when a blacksmith was as important as a computer consultant is today, the blacksmith had to be ready to shoe any horse. Iron horseshoes took a long time to heat up to red-hot, pliable metal. Once pulled from the fire, they cooled quickly and could not be hammered. Keeping several horseshoes (or irons) in the fire meant that the blacksmith could work on them consecutively without losing time

Keep Your Irons in the Fire

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 By playing with dictionary, you can learn very useful vocabularies!i

This was the suggestion that dear Mr. Nagheli once adviced me.I should say that it is the best way you can enhance your vocabulary territory beside studying. By this I've learnt a lot.i

Last night, again I was doing the same thing, and an interesting thing that I found was that:i

dost:         صورت کهنه  فعل do

It is mostly used in literature and poems

Freeze,freeze, thou bitter sky,    That dost not bite so night,  as benefits forgot

وتوای آسمان سرد- هرقدر یخ ببندی و ببندی

چندان نمی سوزانی که- محبت بی مزد می سوزاند