#Shakespeare_Speaks
Supernatural Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's plays are full of ghosts, witches, fairies and magic and most of his audience would have believed in the supernatural. It was common for people to visit fortune tellers and astrologers, and Queen Elizabeth even had her own personal astrologer!
Supernatural Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's plays are full of ghosts, witches, fairies and magic and most of his audience would have believed in the supernatural. It was common for people to visit fortune tellers and astrologers, and Queen Elizabeth even had her own personal astrologer!
Upper Intermediate
Greek to me - Shakespeare Speaks.3gp
Greek to me
Meaning
The phrase It was Greek to me has become It's all Greek to me in modern English, and it's used when something – not just a foreign language – is difficult to understand.
Example sentence
I'll never understand the rules of cricket: out for a duck, silly mid-off, googlies… It's all Greek to me!
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Extra vocabulary
supernatural
things that cannot be explained by science
fortune teller
someone who tells you what they think will happen to you in the future
have your fortune told
have your future predicted
astrologer
someone who studies the stars and planets and uses it to tell people how it will affect their lives
crystal clear
very easy to understand
get the gist
understand the general meaning
as clear as mud
very difficult to understand
gobbledygook
very difficult to understand (often because there are too many technical words)
go over somebody's head
be too difficult for someone to understand
can’t make head nor tail of something
can't understand something
get the picture
understand
gibberish
spoken or written words that have no meaning or are difficult to understand
go Dutch
agree to share the cost of something, especially a meal
talk for England!
talks a lot
when in Rome...
when you are visiting another country, you should behave like the people in that country
an Indian summer
a period of warm, dry weather that sometimes happens in the early autumn
excuse my French
sorry for using a word that may be considered offensive (said humorously)
Dutch courage
the confidence that some people get from drinking alcohol before they do something scary
Meaning
The phrase It was Greek to me has become It's all Greek to me in modern English, and it's used when something – not just a foreign language – is difficult to understand.
Example sentence
I'll never understand the rules of cricket: out for a duck, silly mid-off, googlies… It's all Greek to me!
___________________
Extra vocabulary
supernatural
things that cannot be explained by science
fortune teller
someone who tells you what they think will happen to you in the future
have your fortune told
have your future predicted
astrologer
someone who studies the stars and planets and uses it to tell people how it will affect their lives
crystal clear
very easy to understand
get the gist
understand the general meaning
as clear as mud
very difficult to understand
gobbledygook
very difficult to understand (often because there are too many technical words)
go over somebody's head
be too difficult for someone to understand
can’t make head nor tail of something
can't understand something
get the picture
understand
gibberish
spoken or written words that have no meaning or are difficult to understand
go Dutch
agree to share the cost of something, especially a meal
talk for England!
talks a lot
when in Rome...
when you are visiting another country, you should behave like the people in that country
an Indian summer
a period of warm, dry weather that sometimes happens in the early autumn
excuse my French
sorry for using a word that may be considered offensive (said humorously)
Dutch courage
the confidence that some people get from drinking alcohol before they do something scary
#The_English_We_Speak
Mansplaining
Neil is explaining in detail to Feifei how to do her own job. Learn a new word to describe when a man explains to a woman something in a way which suggests she's stupid.
Mansplaining
Neil is explaining in detail to Feifei how to do her own job. Learn a new word to describe when a man explains to a woman something in a way which suggests she's stupid.
That’s it for tonight. Sleep well and have sweet dreams.
Don’t forget that:
-Where focus goes, energy flows.
-Decide what you want and go after it with everything you got.
-Wait for no one. Start right now.
Don’t forget that:
-Where focus goes, energy flows.
-Decide what you want and go after it with everything you got.
-Wait for no one. Start right now.
#MyStupidThings
Hi everyone
It’s a beautiful windy Friday. Things are going well for me and I hope things are going well for you as well.
Hi everyone
It’s a beautiful windy Friday. Things are going well for me and I hope things are going well for you as well.