Category: Word Up

To be Worldly means to be knowledgable and well travelled. To live in your own world is to do things in an unusual, unorthodox way that makes stand out as …

A monk is a religious man living a life of vows – typically poverty and obedience. A Trappist monk takes this to extremes with a vow of silence 🤐 Buddhist …

An underweight person is called ‘Skinny’ or ‘all skin and bones’. Skinny dipping is swimming naked. To be thick skinned is when you are not affected by criticism or negative …

Kick start – begin e.g. a kick-starter meeting of an IT project. Kick a habit – to stop doing something e.g. smoking. Kick off – the start of a football …

Window weather – cold (often windy) but sunny weather that looks extremely pleasant through the window when one is inside, but is in fact quite uncomfortableto be outside in. Friendscort …

To have a body means you are alive,to be a body means you are dead. Body parts are often used in idioms as in: it cost an arm and a …

Today’s urban vocabulary (as defined by the urban dictionary): Energy vampire – a person who boosts his own energy by taking energy from others by means of an argument, belittlement, …

Word up – words and expressions with ‘little’. Instead of little you can also say: small or tiny. In Scotland, the word ‘wee’ is used for small E.g. a small …

A thing as a noun is an unspecified object e.g. „I need to get a few things from my room.”The general situation you are in e.g. „How are things? – …

To take 5 – is to take a short, 5-min break. So instead of saying:’Let’s take a break for 5-minutes', you can simply say ‘Let’s take five’. In the Uk, …