Phrase: Pay your dues

Thanks for visiting ArtisanEnglish.jp today. These podcasts and posts were created to help my students and anyone who wants to access them to improve their English vocabulary. Pay your dues: To pay your dues means to suffer through difficulties and hardship before becoming successful and having what others have. 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/PayYourDues Try an English Vocabulary Quiz from ArtisanEnglish.jp. You listen to the podcast episodes. 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 If you'd like to take a FREE TRIAL LESSON please contact me, David, at https://www.artisanenglish.jp/contact/ I offer 100% error correction, fantastic discussion topics and the most detailed after-lesson feedback you have ever received. Below are three terms from today’s episode that may have been new to you. In the trenches: In the trenches means you're in the most challenging and busy parts of a job. Teachers in a classroom with 40 kids are in the trenches. https://b.link/InTheTrenches School of hard knocks: The school of hard knocks is where people learn from their mistakes. They prefer not to learn through the experience of others. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/SchoolOfHardKnocks The heavy lifting: The heavy lifting is the hardest or least enjoyable part of a job or task. Cleaning toilets is the heavy lifting of housework. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/TheHeavyLifting