Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Phrase – Pit of Time
How many times has this happened to you? You wanted to do something, but you ran out of time. All of a sudden, you got old. You feel as if time is always getting away […]
How many times has this happened to you? You wanted to do something, but you ran out of time. All of a sudden, you got old. You feel as if time is always getting away […]
How many times has this happened to you? Your friends came over to your house for a friendly, low-stakes Parcheesi tournament. Within minutes, all of them sport faces contorted with enormous, deep-tissue frowns. Why, your […]
How many times has this happened to you? You spent your whole life working 80 houea a week and spending only enough to eat and to have shelter. Then on impulse you bought a Vermeer […]
How many times has this happened to you? You spent hours alphabetizing the spices and herbs. And you poured this ingredients into smaller, smarter looking containers. Perhaps you balanced the checkbook. Maybe you weeded that […]
How many times has this happened to you? You’re at a lecture in college. You barely care about the subject, but you vow to endure the professor’s monotonic delivery. Will he ever stop? Many years […]
How many thousands of times has this happened to you? You take a frozen package out of the freezer. You take the food out of the package. You then throw the packaging into the trash […]
How many times a day has this happened to you? An apple that was in your hands is now on the floor. Or milk that was all the way to the top of the glass […]
How many times has this happened to you? You’ve spent a week’s pay taking the one who makes your skip to the oh so elegant Mille Oiseaux. You yearn to impress, but you ruin the candlelight […]
How many times has this happened to you? You can’t stand your job. Your spouse ran off with a tomato trader. There’s nothing on TV once you get home. Or perhaps, just perhaps, you feel […]
How many times has this happened to you? You’ve been mean to someone. Moments later, the sky rains down cows. One of them lands on your foot. That’s karma. Or you foil a bank robbery […]