Word of the Day: Smoke and Mirrors

Thanks for visiting ArtisanEnglish.jp today. This episode was published on Saturday, March 5, 2022. Our Word of the Day is ‘smoke and mirrors.’ Information described as smoke and mirrors is intended to cloud the truth or embellish it with misleading information. 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/SmokeAndMirrors 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 three terms from today’s episode that may have been new for you. Educated guess: An educated guess is a guess based on accumulated knowledge and experience. An educated guess is more likely to be correct than a pure guess. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/EducatedGuess Get the better of: When you let things get the better of you, you let them defeat you, affect how you feel, or distract you from what you want to be doing. https://b.link/WednesdayGetTheBetterOf Underdog: Underdog means that a person has less access to money or power than other individuals in society. It doesn't mean a person looks like a dog. https://links.artisanenglish.jp/Underdog