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[ Origin ]

Taken literally, this idiom means to blow air (oxygen) onto the fire to increase the intensity of the flames. Just as the wind makes forest fires worse. It was used by Dickens in the mid-1800s in The Old Curiosity Shop.

[ Examples ]

1. The pandemic has fanned the flames of hate among communities.
2. She had fancied Karl for ages, and when he smiled at her, he fanned the flames even more.
3. I believe the political leader is fanning the flames of racial unrest.

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• go down in flames 파멸하다

• add fuel to the fire/flame 불난데 부채질

• go up in smoke/flames (계획, 희망)연기처럼 사라지다, 수포로 돌아가다

[ Origin ]

it is quite an old expression. One of the earliest examples can be found in a poem called “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” written by Christopher Marlowe (also known as Kit Marlowe), published in 1599 after the death of the author. “And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle”

[ Examples ]

1. The corrupt leaders have made their life a bed of roses with the help of black money.
2. Making money is not a bed of roses, so wake up early and go to work.
3. She found that taking care of old parents was not a bed of roses.

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• stop and smell the roses 여유를 가져라

• everything's coming up roses 성공적으로 되어가다

• a bed of nails/thorns 바늘방석, 고통스러운 처지

• make one's bed 불행을 자초하다

[ Origin ]

It is believed that this phrase was invented in the 1870s during slavery in the southern states of America. As part of a dance or celebration organized by slave owners, black slaves would compete in cake walks performing a dance which imitated and subtly mocked the elaborate and ostentatious gestures of the white slave owners. The most elegant couple/team would be given a cake as an award. It seems that the white slave owners didn't understand that they were being mocked in these elaborate cake walk dances, and took great delight in watching their slaves emulating their refined behavior. The piece of cake that was awarded as the prize to the best couple/team, came to be known among the blacks as something very easy to obtain.

[ Examples ]

1. Don't worry, Sophie. This job interview will be a piece of cake for you. You have all the skills they need and I think you're absolutely the best candidate.
2. They said the test would be difficult, but it was a piece of cake. I'll pass with no problem at all.
3. Don't think that this term's work will be a piece of cake. You'll have to study hard to get good grades.

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• taking candy from a baby 쉬운 일
• a walk in the park  쉬운 일
• take the cake/biscuit 최악이다

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The concept behind the origination of this idiom is second but rare appearance of the full moon in same month. Blue moon is the full moon that appears second time in same calendar month and this phenomenon happens only once in 32 months. Apart from that, sometime the full moon appears to be different in color especially blue and orange and bigger in size. This idiomatic expression is in use since 1800s.

[ Examples ]

1. I don't know why she bought that music system. She uses it once in a blue moon.
2. I think my grandson doesn't love me anymore, he comes to see me only once in a blue moon.
3. Although I trust in God, I visit that famous temple only once in a blue moon.

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• once in a while 가끔

• once in a lifetime 평생에 한번뿐인

• out of the blue 갑자기

Chapter XI. The Nest of the Missel Thrush 

 6    She quite panted with eagerness, and Dickon was as eager as she was. They went from tree to tree and from bush to bush. Dickon carried his knife in his hand and showed her things which she thought wonderful.
"They've run wild," he said, "but th' strongest ones has fair thrived on it. The delicatest ones has died out, but th' others has growed an' growed, an' spread an' spread, till they's a wonder. See here!" and he pulled down a thick gray, dry-looking branch. "A body might think this was dead wood, but I don't believe it is--down to th' root. I'll cut it low down an' see."
He knelt and with his knife cut the lifeless-looking branch through, not far above the earth.
"There!" he said exultantly. "I told thee so. There's green in that wood yet. Look at it."

 7   Mary was down on her knees before he spoke, gazing with all her might.
"When it looks a bit greenish an' juicy like that, it's wick," he explained. "When th' inside is dry an' breaks easy, like this here piece I've cut off, it's done for. There's a big root here as all this live wood sprung out of, an' if th' old wood's cut off an' it's dug round, and took care of there'll be--" he stopped and lifted his face to look up at the climbing and hanging sprays above him--"there'll be a fountain o' roses here this summer."

 8   They went from bush to bush and from tree to tree. He was very strong and clever with his knife and knew how to cut the dry and dead wood away, and could tell when an unpromising bough or twig had still green life in it. In the course of half an hour Mary thought she could tell too, and when he cut through a lifeless-looking branch she would cry out joyfully under her breath when she caught sight of the least shade of moist green. The spade, and hoe, and fork were very useful. He showed her how to use the fork while he dug about roots with the spade and stirred the earth and let the air in.
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• hoe-괭이, spade/shovle -삽, fork-갈퀴
• cut off, cut away, cut out - 잘라내다

 9   They were working industriously round one of the biggest standard roses when he caught sight of something which made him utter an exclamation of surprise.
"Why!" he cried, pointing to the grass a few feet away. "Who did that there?"
It was one of Mary's own little clearings round the pale green points.
"I did it," said Mary.
"Why, I thought tha' didn't know nothin' about gardenin'," he exclaimed.
"I don't," she answered, "but they were so little, and the grass was so thick and strong, and they looked as if they had no room to breathe. So I made a place for them. I don't even know what they are."

 10   Dickon went and knelt down by them, smiling his wide smile.
"Tha' was right," he said. "A gardener couldn't have told thee better. They'll grow now like Jack's bean-stalk. They're crocuses an' snowdrops, an' these here is narcissuses," turning to another patch, "an here's daffydowndillys. Eh! they will be a sight."
He ran from one clearing to another.
"Tha' has done a lot o' work for such a little wench," he said, looking her over.
"I'm growing fatter," said Mary, "and I'm growing stronger. I used always to be tired. When I dig I'm not tired at all. I like to smell the earth when it's turned up."
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• thee/thou - you의 옛날표현
• wench - 젊은처녀

 11    "It's rare good for thee," he said, nodding his head wisely. "There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em. I get out on th' moor many a day when it's rainin' an' I lie under a bush an' listen to th' soft swish o' drops on th' heather an, I just sniff an, sniff. My nose end fair quivers like a rabbit's, mother says."
"Do you never catch cold?" inquired Mary, gazing at him wonderingly. She had never seen such a funny boy, or such a nice one.
"Not me," he said, grinning. "I never ketched cold since I was born. I wasn't brought up nesh enough. I've chased about th' moor in all weathers same as th' rabbits does. Mother says I've sniffed up too much fresh air for twelve year' to ever get to sniffin' with cold. I'm as tough as a white-thorn knobstick."
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• naught - nothing
  
• nesh - 겁이 많은
  
• swish - 획 하는 소리
  

Chapter XI. The Nest of the Missel Thrush 

  1  For two or three minutes he stood looking round him, while Mary watched him, and then he began to walk about softly, even more lightly than Mary had walked the first time she had found herself inside the four walls. His eyes seemed to be taking in everything--the gray trees with the gray creepers climbing over them and hanging from their branches, the tangle on the walls and among the grass, the evergreen alcoves with the stone seats and tall flower urns standing in them.
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• alcove[ælkoʊv] - 벽감(벽면을 우묵하게 들어가게 해서 만든 공간)
• urn[ɜ:rn] - (차·커피를 끓이는 데 쓰는 큰) 주전자, (유골을 담는) 항아리

 2   "I never thought I'd see this place," he said at last, in a whisper.
"Did you know about it?" asked Mary.
She had spoken aloud and he made a sign to her.
"We must talk low," he said, "or some one'll hear us an' wonder what's to do in here."
"Oh! I forgot!" said Mary, feeling frightened and putting her hand quickly against her mouth.
"Did you know about the garden?" she asked again when she had recovered herself. Dickon nodded.

3   "Martha told me there was one as no one ever went inside," he answered. "Us used to wonder what it was like."He stopped and looked round at the lovely gray tangle about him, and his round eyes looked queerly happy."Eh! the nests as'll be here come springtime," he said. "It'd be th' safest nestin' place in England. No one never comin' near an' tangles o' trees an' roses to build in. I wonder all th' birds on th' moor don't build here."Mistress Mary put her hand on his arm again without knowing it."Will there be roses?" she whispered. "Can you tell? I thought perhaps they were all dead.""Eh! No! Not them--not all of 'em!" he answered. "Look here!"
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• moor[mʊr] - 황무지
• queerly[kwɪrli] - 괴상하게

 4  He stepped over to the nearest tree--an old, old one with gray lichen all over its bark, but upholding a curtain of tangled sprays and branches. He took a thick knife out of his Pocket and opened one of its blades.
"There's lots o' dead wood as ought to be cut out," he said. "An' there's a lot o' old wood, but it made some new last year. This here's a new bit," and he touched a shoot which looked brownish green instead of hard, dry gray. Mary touched it herself in an eager, reverent way.
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• bark - 나무껍질, 개 짓는 소리

 5  "That one?" she said. "Is that one quite alive quite?"
Dickon curved his wide smiling mouth.
"It's as wick as you or me," he said; and Mary remembered that Martha had told her that "wick" meant "alive" or "lively."
"I'm glad it's wick!" she cried out in her whisper. "I want them all to be wick. Let us go round the garden and count how many wick ones there are."

Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States,

celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans

shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as

one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies.

 It originated as a harvest festival, and to this day the centerpiece of Thanksgiving celebrations remains Thanksgiving dinner. The dinner traditionally consists of foods and dishes indigenous to the Americas, namely turkey. potatoes, stuffing, squash, corn, green beans, cranberries, and pumpkin pie. Thanksgiving is regarded as being the beginning of the fall–winter holiday season, along with Christmas and the New Year, in American culture.

 The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621. This feast lasted three days, and—as recounted by attendee Edward Winslow—was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings," days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.

 Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789, with a proclamation by President George Washington after a request by Congress. President Thomas Jefferson chose not to observe the holiday, and its celebration was intermittent until President Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.

 On June 28, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Holidays Act that made Thanksgiving a yearly appointed federal holiday in Washington D.C. On January 6, 1885, an act by Congress made Thanksgiving, and other federal holidays, a paid holiday for all federal workers throughout the United States. Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the date was changed between 1939 and 1941 amid significant controversy. From 1942 onwards, Thanksgiving, by an act of Congress, signed into law by FDR, received a permanent observation date, the fourth Thursday in November, no longer at the discretion of the President.

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