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 …