Word of the Day: Get by

Thanks for visiting ArtisanEnglish.jp today. This episode was published on Monday, March 14, 2022. Our Word of the Day is ‘get by.’ To get by means you can live and feed yourself but not much else. Getting by is what you do when you don't have any extra money. 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/GetBy Try a Weekly Thursday 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 Below are two terms from today’s episode that may have been new for you. Burn the midnight oil: When we burn the midnight oil, we continue to work late into the night. If you burn the midnight oil too often, you will get sick. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/BurnTheMidnightOil Pipe dream: A pipe dream is something that is very unlikely to happen. The term comes from smoking opium and having great but unattainable dreams. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/PipeDream