“End run” is a football play, an American football play to be exact. In the play, which happens near the end zone – that’s ...

A hot mic moment is an awkward moment, awkward because someone who is caught mic saying something embarrassing or otherwise ...

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Basically, that’s what to second-guess something means. It means you begin to think twice about it, to have doubts about it, to question whether there’s a better option, even to be critical of it ...

“Hoo”, by the way, is a rhyming compound based on “boo”, which is imitative of a baby’s cry. Boo-hoo, boohoo (without hyphen) ...

“Hilt” in “to the hilt” refers to the handle of a sword or long knife. “To the hilt” literally means that the sword or knife ...

“Scale” 既可以作名词，也可以作动词使用。它的名词含义包括 “标度，单位”、“范围，规模” 和 “鳞，鳞片”。作动词时，“scale” 可以怎么用？看视频，学习单词 “scale” 的常见用法。

如果想描述一组人或事物中的 “每一个”，到底该用 “each” 还是 “every”？虽然这两个词的汉语释义乍一看非常接近，但我们却不能将它们一概而论。主持人 Phil 在本集 “一分钟英语” 中以 ...

Craw in the idiom “stick in someone’s craw”, you see, refers to the stomach or pouch of a bird. The craw of a chicken, for example, is where it temporarily stores food. The craw is located right down ...

网友 “西叶” 想知道动词 “distribute、allocate、assign” 和 “apportion” 的区别。这四个词都有 “分配” 的意思，但用法却不同。拿吃披萨举例：如果你需要把大量披萨送到多地去售卖，就叫做 ...

To pick up steam is to pick up pace or speed, like a railway train. “Steam” in “pick up steam”, you see, refers to the steam ...

Hence, figuratively speaking, “the last man standing” is often used to describe the lone survivor of any disastrous situation. What’s implied is that the “last man standing” is a hero. He’s the best, ...