No matter whether you’re shopping for essentials or buying something fun, such as new clothes or a game system, having a valid payment method is important. It’s equally important to ensure you fill out the payment information correctly, including typing in the correct name on a debit or credit card. Table of Contents What …
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There are very few of us who wouldn’t recognize the intro to the 1982 hard rock hit “Eye of the Tiger.” The song was written by the band Survivor at the request of Sylvester Stallone. It became the highlight of the soundtrack of Stallone’s hit boxing movie Rocky III. The punchy, staccato riff of the …
Idioms are groups of words whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of the individual words. Because the words in idioms cannot be interpreted literally, it can be difficult to understand what they mean at the best of times. But they are even more difficult to understand when they contain words that have …
Writing cards or online posts to congratulate our friends on the important milestones in their lives is important. It should be easy enough to express well wishes to someone you care about. Doing so can be complicated, however, if we are unsure about which words to use to express what we are congratulating them for. …
Smileys are one of the internet’s most widespread forms of communication. Social media websites have dozens of pictures to add to messages, and everyone knows the meaning of the most common text smileys, such as 🙁 or :). Some smileys, however, can be confusing. Let’s take a look at :v What does :v mean? …
“I may not be a lion, but I am lion’s cub and I have lion’s heart.”- Elizabeth I. An unwavering metaphor having stood against the tide of time, the “heart of a lion” can be dated back to Elizabeth I. Used in scores of literary works, the stark comparison to a lion’s heart leaves a …
If you’re indoors, take a moment and look at the door of the room you’re sitting in. And if you’re outdoors, try and have a look around to spot a door in sight. Stare at it for a moment. What you’re looking at is not just a plank of wood or metal, it’s something much …
The phrase “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” is not your classic, old-English idiom. This phrase, that reverberates within each of us takes its roots from a 2004 song from the American rock band, Green Day. The phrase was used even before that by Al Dubin in 1933 where he released a song by the same name, …
Everyone knows that communication on the internet has its oddities. There are memes, where people make endless different captions for a single image. There are acronyms which don’t make sense unless you spend lots of time online. And, of course, there are smileys (also known as emoticons or emoji). In this post, we’ll take a …