Phrase: Count your blessings

Today’s BLAST FROM THE PAST episode is for Saturday, June 27, 2020. Our phrase is ‘count your blessings.’ When you count your blessings, you are trying to be grateful for what you have. When you feel down, count your blessings to feel better. You can read along as you listen by clicking HERE or by copying and pasting this link into your preferred browser: https://links.artisanenglish.jp/CountYourBlessings Try a Weekly Thursday Quiz from ArtisanEnglish.jp. You listen to the posts. Now check to see if you learned from what you heard. Visit ArtisanEnglish.jp and go to the Weekly Quizzes page. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/Quiz I also offer FREE 20-minute lessons twice a month for anyone. All you have to do is sign up to win. Look under Book a Private Lesson at ArtisanEnglish.jp for Saturday Free-For-Anyone https://links.artisanenglish.jp/SatFree4Any1and Sunday Free-For-Anyone  https://links.artisanenglish.jp/SunFree4Any1. Below are six terms from today’s episode that may have been new for you. Along the lines of: When we use the term along the lines of, we want to say that two things are similar but not exactly the same. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/AlongTheLinesOf Hard done by: When someone feels hard done by, they feel as if they have been mistreated or otherwise have not been treated fairly for some reason. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/HardDoneBy Look on the bright side: When you look on the bright side, you refuse to focus on the negative and instead focus on the positive. Positivity is a conscious choice. https://b.link/WednesdayOnTheBrightSide Long face: If you have a long face, you look sad. A horse's face is long when he's not sad. When you have a long face, people ask, "Why the long face?" https://links.artisanenglish.jp/LongFace Misery loves company: Misery loves company is a proveris b that means unhappy people want other people to be miserable too. Maybe is no fun to be unhappy alone. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/MiseryLovesCompany Spouse: Spouse is a more formal word for husband or wife. Spouse also a gender-neutral term that can be used to refer to a male or female. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/Spouse