phrases

Last weekend, as I was cleaning up a mess in the kitchen, my husband was parked in the living room, absorbed in his phone.I asked him for help. Silence. I asked again. Nothing. As I shoved plates and bowls into the dishwasher, I slipped…

'Wine o'clock' might seem like a treat at the end of the day.But the booming social media trend may be to blame for rising binge drinking rates in younger women, experts have warned. 'Wine mum' and 'rose-all-day' culture have only…

Telling upset children not to cry, that they're okay and there's nothing to be afraid of may seem like words of reassurance to parents.But now, a psychologist has revealed that such phrases may actually be doing more harm than good to…

PARIS: A year of extraordinary upheaval, from the war in Ukraine to catastrophic natural disasters, AFP looks at some of the words and phrases that have defined 2022. With the war in Ukraine and increasingly strident threats from Russian…

Sir Alex Ferguson's iconic 'squeaky bum time' and Jose Mourinho's 'parking the bus' phrases are added to the Oxford English Dictionary... as its update brings in 15 football-related terms including 'Gegenpressing', 'Row Z' and…

TikTok is one of the most popular social media platforms among young people, boasting over one billion monthly active users worldwide.So it is perhaps no surprise that many of the acronyms and slang terms which emerged on, or have been…

Wouldn't it be nice if your kid grew up to become an entrepreneur?Entrepreneurs, in my view, are not just founders of for-profit businesses. They are resilient, hard-working people who start something, who come up with ideas and bring them…

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Malawi’s foreign minister Nancy Tembo lashed out at Chinese foreign ministry’s African affairs department director general Wu Peng earlier this week after a video went viral where Malawian children were seen chanting racist phrases…

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