Idioms
This is an idiom we say sometimes if we want to avoid bad luck, especially after making a bold or overly confident statement.
Knock on wood
Our impact on the environment.
Carbon footprint
A business person, particularly someone who starts their own business.
Entrepreneur
To slowly disappear.
Fade
(n) An illegal payment.
(v) To offer or make an illegal payment.
Bribe
This idiom means: To narrowly avoid a dangerous situation.
To dodge a bullet
Cigarette fumes that we end up indirectly breathing when people are smoking near us.
Second-hand smoke
The trend towards international cooperation in areas like business, education, travel, culture, etc.
Globalization
Well-regarded. Highly respected. Famous
(3 possible answers)
Prestigious
Reputable
Renowned
(n) A sudden impulse.
(v) To strongly encourage.
Urge
This idiom means someone is content with how they look, sound or appear to others and comfortable with who they are rather than wanting to be like someone else.
Comfortable in your own skin
Normal. Ordinary. Mediocre. Routine. A bit meh.
Run of the mill
Moisture descending from the sky, including rain, sleet, hail, snow and virga.
Precipitation
Unavoidable.
A business that has a chain of identical stores or restaurants, cafes, etc.
Franchise
This idiom means that what really matters is someone showing us consideration, even if we aren't able to directly benefit from it.
It's the thought that counts
Wandering around in a store or shopping center with no real intention of buying anything.
Window shopping
An event designed to familiarize new students and or employees with their new study situation or job.
Orientation
To disprove (especially something like a conspiracy theory).
Debunk
Something that creates debate, argument and divides opinion.
Controversy
This idiom means to be careful receiving new information, particularly when it comes from sources not known to be trustworthy.
Take it with a grain of salt
This collocation is used to describe a country with no seacoast because it is surrounded on all sides by other countries.
Landlocked
A comfortable dialogue between two people built on trust.
Rapport
Only temporary. Certain to end or run out at some point.
Finite
To do exactly as everyone else around you is doing. To blend in with the crowd.
Conform