Know Your English - July 2008

July 2008

• What is the meaning of ‘shoestring budget’? (20080729)
• How is the expression ‘Mot juste’ pronounced? (20080729)
• What is the difference between ‘lease’ and ‘rent’? (20080729)
• What is the meaning and origin of the expression ‘bolt’ from the blue’? (20080729)
• What is the meaning and origin of ‘riding roughshod over someone’? (20080722)
• What is the meaning of ‘fashionably late’? (20080722)
• Is it OK to say, ‘She pleaded with her daughter to never go there’? (20080722)
• What is the meaning of ‘qualm’? (20080722)
• What is the difference between ‘squash’ and ‘quash’? (20080722)
• Know your English (20080715)
• What is the meaning of ‘laissez-faire attitude’? (20080708)
• Does the word ‘staycation’ exist? (20080708)
• What is the meaning and origin of the expression ‘toe the line’? (20080708)
• Is it okay to introduce oneself in the following manner? ‘My name is Prof. X’. (20080708)
• What is the meaning of the word ‘presently’? (20080708)
• What is the meaning and origin of ‘pull the wool over someone’s eyes’? (20080701)
• How is the word ‘chutzpah’ pronounced? (20080701)
• What is the origin of the word ‘soccer’? (20080701)
• What is the meaning of ‘eponymous’? (20080701)