Saturday, May 27, 2023

Slang of the Week

 

     Slang of the Week

1. 📒 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

📖Meaning

An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.

2. 📒 Neither a borrower nor a lender be. 

📖Meaning

Do not borrow things. Do not lend things.

3. 📒 Brevity is the soul of wit

📖Meaning
The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.
4. 📒 He who hesitates is lost

📖Meaning
The person who waits too long loses the opportunity; or, more seriously, delay or indecision may have disastrous results.
5. 📒 If a job's worth doing it's worth doing well

📖Meaning
Don't start some work and then do it badly.

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N.Shanmugan
Assistant Professor of English
Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science
Coimbatore - 641 020. 

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