The 50 most important English proverbs

Every culture has a collection of wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life. These sayings are called "proverbs".

It's good to know the really common English proverbs because you hear them come up in conversation all the time. Sometimes people say the entire proverb to give advice to a friend.

Using Worth

If you’ve never been to NYC, you should come. It is certainly worth the trip. With so much to see and do here, the experience is certainly worth the expense. Just be careful of the street vendors. Many of them sell designer brand goods, but they are generally fake, and not worth the $10 price!

Today, let’s look at the adjective worth and see how we can use this in English conversation.

Unibrow

 It’s hilarious and native speakers will LOVE it if they hear you use it. The first part of the word “uni” means “one”.  For example, a “unicycle” means “one wheel” and a “bicycle” means “2 wheels”.  (bi means two)

Secondly, “brow” is short for “eyebrow”.  A person’s “eyebrow” is the hair above each eye.  Most people have 2 eyebrows. So now… Imagine a really hairy person.

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Using "Wait"

I think most people don’t like waiting for things, but if you think about it, we wait all the time. We wait for trains, busses, meetings, and wait for people to do things for us. We wait hours for flights to arrive and concerts to begin. Maybe you have waited to see an English lesson that deals with the verb wait. Well, you don’t need to way any longer. Here it is!

There are four basic English grammar patterns when using wait. Today, let’s have a look and practice these.

We use wait for + [someone/something]

15 Idiomatic Expressions

A lot of American idiomatic expressions are typically used in informal English – but these 15 idioms are different! Read the idiomatic expressions and example sentences, listen to the pronunciation and repeat the words and sentences out loud to improve your English speaking.

put something off

If you put something off, you delay doing it.

“I put off writing the report until the last day, and now I have to work overtime to finish it!”