What a lovely Sunday.
I met some friends for brunch, saw some “art” at a modern art gallery, then went for a long walk in Stromavka Park.
And while I was walking, I was listening to a podcast.
The guy talking was a native speaker.
But he used the wrong word! (Yes, even native speakers make mistakes.)
He said, “The project went down in flames.”
“To go down in flames” means it was a big failure.
But it’s a metaphor.
A figure of speech.
An idiom.
The mistake he made was when he added the word “literally.”
“The project literally went down in flames.”
And I don’t think the business he was talking about actually caught on fire.
Woops.
So what’s a better word?
I guess you could say “really” or “absolutely.”
But I say, idioms are colorful enough.
They deliver your message in an interesting way without any help from adverbs.
I say; What a beautiful Monday.
Vitamins are real life stories. Actually literary miniatures. Very delicately strung sentences with interesting learning points. They are simple. They are understandable. They are content oriented. They know how to encourage.
In our country, we say that someone is “burnt out” (pogorel).
His intention backfired.
Cheers.
Yes it was a lovely Sundey for me too.
I went for a wolk in the Central Park im my hometown. It was silence there were only some people in the morning.And while I was walking, I listened the songs of the thrushes.
Later I saw two crows on the two upper branches of a tall tree
They sat opposite each other on the end of the branches, it seemed like they were talking, but it was silence. They sat there like two soldiers on top of two bastion observing the landscape.I make a foto.
I tried to write an idiom but I couldn’t just write an analogy.
An interesting case. 🙂
In Hungary, if someone is told that they are burnt out, it means that they have used up all their money.
Dear Ryan, Czech and Moravia people also make a lot of mistakes when they speak in their mother tongue, and especially when they wreite. 🙂
Yes, lovely Sunday!
better word im the idiom instead literally is
Absolutely or really.
One Sunday , after visiting gallery he was listening podcast and wanted to learn us to use better Word im one idiom:
instead literaly he sugest absolutely or
Actually
Hello
This time I have to the difficulty for understanding all words.
But in all I realised that even native English sometimes use the wrong words .
I am all ears. Literally 🙂
Yes, you’re right this idiom ate so expressive that is not necessarily another word to make it more strong; there are a lot of idioms in English. One of them so strange…
Yes, sometimes strong emotions manifest themselves in this way- by overloading an idiom with an adverb.
Other time – another way. For example, after I read “ What a lovely Sunday.”, I even wrote a short story on this topic 😊
Good point.
Hi, you spent a very nice sunday. It is best in nature.
I was at work and today I have free day, bacause we have a holiday in Slovakia.
Words us ” burn out” we use. We mean that person has not motivattion, he does not know to continue, he is moody, he is unhappy.
But words – ” finisch work”, we can be say – ” wrap it up”.
Have a nice day.
I think the correct word may be, really, but its not necesary. The idiomatic expresiones are full of sense