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Saturday 30 January 2021
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![Honey is sweet. Vinegar is sour. What do these two food items have to do with getting what you want?]()
January 30, 2021Get What You Want ... With Honey!
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![Pins are sharp and can hurt. Like when you get a pin prick for a blood test. Today we talk about an English expression that uses this sharp but useful object.]()
January 23, 2021Be Careful When You 'Pin Your Hopes on Something!'
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![If something is a "flash in the pan," it not only comes quickly, but leaves quickly too. Pictured here, lightning flashes across the sky over Hanover, Germany, June 1, 2018. (AFP/DPA / Ole Spata)]()
January 16, 2021Short-lived Success Is a 'Flash in the Pan'
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![Smoke and flames from bushfire are seen in Gingin, Western Australia in this undated handout image. (Nikki Woods/Dept. of Fire and Emergency Services via REUTERS)]()
January 09, 2021Some Say 'There's No Smoke Without Fire'
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![Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli sings in an empty Duomo Square in Milan, Italy, on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020. (Reuters File Photo/Alex Fraser)]()
January 02, 2021Let's 'End on a High Note'
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![A rainstorm is seen from a distance in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. (Photo Credit: Ashley Thompson for VOA)]()
December 26, 2020Shenandoah and Its Native American Roots
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![Healthcare workers react to cheers at Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital Center during a 7 o'clock ceremony praising their efforts, April 24, 2020, New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)]()
December 19, 20202020 Is Definitely 'One for the History Books'
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![Idioms About Sports]()
December 12, 2020Idioms About Sports
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![Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivers remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7, 2020, after being declared the winner with Joe Biden of the presidential election. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)]()
December 10, 2020Fauci, Kamala Among Famous Names on Mispronounced Words List
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![Here, Cristina Marino, healthcare worker and helper at The Happy Donkey association, walk with Magallanes at the "Enchanted Forest" in Hinojos, Spain. The donkeys help healthcare workers stressed from dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP)]()
December 05, 2020Does the 'Carrot-and-Stick' Approach Come From Donkeys?
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![In this Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, photo the word pandemic is displayed in a dictionary in Washington. Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its 2020 word of the year. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)]()
November 30, 2020Dictionaries Choose ‘Pandemic’ as 2020 Word of the Year
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![This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)]()
November 28, 2020Three Words to Describe COVID-19
