What Does “Sophomore” Mean?

Of the four tiers of high school, sophomore is the year that stands out as strange. Freshman, junior, and senior are relatively clear monikers for their associated levels, and it’s funny that in school, the place where you are most expected to know the how and why of everything, second-year students are called by a term whose roots are abstruse.

Be Russian

Excuse me, would you happen to have...

You sit down in class and realize you have paper but no pen. You ask the student next to you for a pen.

Excuse me, would you happen to have a pen I could borrow?

50 more of the most important English proverbs

continued from:  http://ludmilakonyaeva.blogspot.ru/2012/08/the-50-most-important-english-proverbs.html   Proverbs are wise sayings that are remembered and repeated. The ones below are so popular that you will often hear them in daily conversation. If you're trying to learn English, it would be a great idea to memorize these proverbs. By memorizing them, you will not only learn some common English sayings; you will also help your brain to become better at forming good English sentences. So here are 50 more awesome sayings that English speakers use:

1. "A broken clock is right twice a day."

When an old clock stops working, it shows one specific time but doesn't move. So once in the day and once at night, the clock is pointing to the correct time. In the same way, even a person who's not very smart can sometimes be correct by accident.

Metaphors

Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Metaphors are usually used as a way to

Don't tell me...

You take your kids to the amusement park for a day of fun. After an hour, your youngest says he wants to go home.

Don't tell me you're tired already!

I take full responsibility

You're the manager of a small team of programmers. The latest version of your software had a bug which made it insecure. You had to tell the company's CEO about the mistake. After describing the problem, you apologize and say this.   I take full responsibility.