Drink like a fish / Picture by Prawny from Pixabay Drink like a fish We use this phrase when discussing someone’s tendency to drink too much alcohol. “Give me the bottle, I can drink like a fish now, like an elephant.” Origin The phrase first appeared in 1640 in Fletcher and  Shirley’s The Night Walker, or the Little Thief and is probably related to an allusion of fish open-mouthed taking in a lot of water. PROVERBS EASY GRAMMAR English Cartoon Idioms The post Drink Like A Fish first appeared on Simple English News. The post Drink Like A Fish appeared first on Simple English News ..read more

Listen here https://simpleenglishnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Smoking-Could-Kill-1-Billion-People-This-Century-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3Photo by Jeroen Bosch on Unsplash There is more bad news out today about the harmful effects of smoking. The World Health Organization estimates that one billion people could die from illnesses related to smoking this century. More than half of smoking deaths take place in poor countries. The number of people smoking is rising in many poor countries, especially among teenagers, the WHO said.  WORDS harmful: causing a bad effect.  to ..read more

Photo by Ayo Ogunseinde on Unsplash bozo: (informal) a stupid and incompetent person. “Some bozo left the door open again.” “The recently elected mayor is a bozo.” “My biggest nightmare is to get stuck next to some talkative bozo while travelling by train.” Synonyms: fool, idiot, jerk, airhead buffoon, blockhead. PROVERBS EASY GRAMMAR English Cartoon Idiom The post Word Of The Day: Bozo first appeared on Simple English News. The post Word Of The Day: Bozo appeared first on Simple English News ..read more

Listen here https://simpleenglishnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/A-Bank-Robber-Who-Helped-People.mp3Image by LillyCantabile from Pixabay Pretty Boy Floyd was not just an ordinary American bank robber. Unlike other bank robbers, Floyd, while robbing a bank, would destroy property mortgage documents, thus releasing many citizens from their debt burden. The people of Oklahoma dubbed him “The Robin Hood of Cookson Hills.” WORDS robber: a person who steals, a burglar, thief. mortgage: a special loan for buying property such as a house, etc. debt burden: the amount of mo ..read more

Listen here https://simpleenglishnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Chernobyl-Nuclear-Disaster-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3Photo by Michał Lis on Unsplash By the end of April it will have been 38 years since the accident at  the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant  occurred. A night power-failure stress test, at the no. 4 reactor, resulted in uncontrolled reaction conditions and subsequent steam explosion followed by an open-air fire. This fire caused updrafts for 9 days. Large quantities of radioactive isotopes were dispersed into the atmosphere. Despite the 30 ..read more

SimpleEnglishNews.com Cooking with gas To do very well. Being successful in an activity, especially after a period of inefficient performance. Origin This phrase was used at the beginning of the 20 century when gas cookers began to replace wood – -burning stoves. PROVERBS EASY GRAMMAR English Cartoon Idioms The post Cooking With Gas first appeared on Simple English News. The post Cooking With Gas appeared first on Simple English News ..read more

Listen here  https://simpleenglishnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/The-Didgeridoo-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3Image by John R Perry from Pixabay Some researchers believe the Didgeridoo may be the world’s oldest musical instrument, possibly over 40,000 years old. This wind instrument is officially classified as a brass aerophone. Uniquely developed by the indigenous aboriginal people of Northern Australia, it is still played at ceremonial events today. WORDS indigenous: native. it is played =they play it   PROVERBS EASY GRAMMAR English Cartoo ..read more

Listen here https://simpleenglishnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Boris-Yeltsin.mp3Image by S K from Pixabay Boris Yeltsin, who died on April 23 at age 76, was the first elected president of Russia. Yeltsin began his career for the Communist Party in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk. In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev made him the mayor of Moscow. He became internationally famous in 1991 for standing on a tank during a coup which tried to remove Gorbachev from power. Yeltsin started several economic reforms as president – many of which were very unpopular with the people. Yeltsin was the leader of ..read more

Listen here https://simpleenglishnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Real-Bank-Of-Love-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3Bank of Love Are you thinking of how to make your love grow?  There is a solution. Deposit it in the only love bank in the world. There are love boxes in the bank, located in the basement of the house that is a part of 500-year-old gold mine, where couples can store their love keepsakes. Each box represents a letter from the poem “Marina” by Andrej Saldkovic from 1846, the world’s longest love poem. The poem was inspired by the true and unhappy  love sto ..read more

Image by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay Count out To not include someone in an activity or plan, to think of someone or something as unimportant. “If you are going to ride a bike, you can count me out.” “We should not count them out. They may have an ace up their sleeve.” PROVERBS EASY GRAMMAR English Cartoon Idioms The post Count Out first appeared on Simple English News. The post Count Out appeared first on Simple English News ..read more