Quotes - Phyllis George
Phyllis George:
The most popular labor saving device is still money.
Vocabulary - Armchair Activist
Armchair Activist:
A so-called activist who thinks he is helping towards a good cause by making a topic famous via blogs/social media.
"Forward this link to help breast cancer!!" - common saying by an armchair activist.
Poem - They say that Hope is happiness By Lord Byron
They say that Hope is happiness:
They say that Hope is happiness—
But genuine Love must prize the past;
And mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless
They rose the first—they set the last.
And all that mem'ry loves the most
Was once our only hope to be:
And all that hope adored and lost
Hath melted into memory.
Alas! it is delusion all—
The future cheats us from afar,
Nor can we be what we recall,
Nor dare we think on what we are.
Vocabulary - Gynie
Gynie:
A gynecologist.
She went to a new gynie last week.
Persian: متخصص زنان
Quotes - Raymond Charles Barker
Raymond Charles Barker:
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Vocabulary - Folded
Folded:
Alcohol intoxicated.
Jack is folded again. That's the third time this week.
Persian: مست
Quotes - Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock:
People have their lists of what they want in their partner, and three-quarters of them are superficial. If life doesn't give you what you want, it'll present you with what you need and you don't realize it. That need is far greater and more profound than the little list thing.
Poem - My Last Duchess By Robert Browning
My Last Duchess:
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
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Vocabulary - Foot-in-mouth Disease
Foot-in-mouth Disease:
The tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time.
(From: to put one's foot in one's mouth)
I suffer a lot from foot-in-mouth disease.
Quotes - Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell:
Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.
Literature - Anaphora
Anaphora:
Literature - Metonymy
Metonymy:
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.
Poem - Ode on a Grecian Urn By George Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn:
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunt about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
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Quotes - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare:
If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more... .
Poem - Since There's No Help By Michael Drayton
Since There's No Help:
Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part,
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me,
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself can free.
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath,
When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies,
When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And Innocence is closing up his eyes,
Now, if thou wouldst, when all have giv'n him over,
From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.
Vocabulary - Diff
Diff:
Short form of difference.
What diff does it make?
Poem - Terence, This is Stupid Stuff By A. E. Housman
Terence, This is Stupid Stuff:
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:
You eat your victuals fast enough;
There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
But oh, good Lord, the verse you make,
It gives a chap the belly-ache.
The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well, the horned head:
We poor lads, 'tis our turn now
To hear such tunes as killed the cow.
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Poem - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day By William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
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Vocabulary - Deets
Deets:
Short form of details.
I want all the gory deets about your date with John.
Quotes - Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr:
The time is always right to do the right thing.
Vocabulary - Going Screensaver
Going Screensaver:
When you notice a coworker spacing out, or dozing off in a meeting.
Check it out, look at Joe. He's going screensaver.
Fun - ضرب المثل های فارسی با ترجمه انگلیسی
ضرب المثل های فارسی با ترجمه انگلیسی:
اگر خارج از ایران باشید، با جملاتی این چنینی برخورد کردید، بدونید طرف مقابل ایرونیه
▪ He looks at me Left Left!
چپ چپ نگاه میکنه!
▪ I die for your height and top!
قربونه قد وبالات!
▪ Ate my head!
سرمو خورد!
▪ He has grown a tail!
دم در آورده!
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Quotes - Bernadette Devlin
Bernadette Devlin:
Yesterday I dared to struggle; today I dare to win!
Quotes - C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis:
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
Vocabulary - Cut the Cheese
Cut the Cheese:
To fart.
Who cut the cheese?
Quotes - Gordon B. Hinckley
Gordon B. Hinckley:
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
Vocabulary - Motor-mouth
Motor-mouth:
Somebody who talks a lot.
Hey, You motor-mouth, put a sock in it.
Quotes - Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey:
It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.
Vocabulary - Garbanzos
Garbanzos:
a woman's breasts.
Look at the splendid garbanzos on that chick.
Persian: پستان
a woman's breasts.
Look at the splendid garbanzos on that chick.
Persian: پستان
Quotes - Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall:
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.