I was five or six years old.
My family was on vacation at a resort in the mountains of Virginia.
In the 1970s, it was still common for resorts to have formal dinners with music and dancing.
During dinner, my sister, ten years older than me, told me to walk up to a little girl sitting nearby with her family and ask her to dance.
I trusted my sister and obeyed.
I walked over to the little girl, asked her to dance, and…
THE ATOMIC WORD OF THE WEEK IS….
Major.
You’ve probably heard it before.
But do you know ALL the ways it can be used?
And do you know the most popular idioms with “major”?
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A MAJOR BLOW
The little girl looked right at me and in a very loud voice said “No!”
Well, that was a major blow to my fragile, young ego.
It would be quite some time before I would ask another girl to dance…
TOMORROW: More major!
Cheers,
Mr. Vig
P.S.
How else can we use “major” like this?
And what’s the opposite?
Listen to today’s Atomic Homework to go deeper with this very common English word.
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