Johnny语法博客：Shangri La的由来

Most people understand it as an imaginary paradise on earth, a utopia or a secluded place of great beauty.

Johnny语法博客：over和more than

I have been tying myself in grammatical knots over the differences between “over’ and “more than”.

Johnny语法博客：便宜货 Mickey Mouse

I’m sure you know Mickey Mouse the Disney character, but what about Mickey Mouse the adjective?

Johnny语法博客：别生气

‘Don’t get a face on’ obviously is a way to say ‘don’t get angry’.

Johnny语法博客：显而易见

“It’s a no brainer” meaning the choice was obvious and it didn’t require any intelligence to make it.

Johnny语法博客：临阵退缩

‘To have cold feet’ is a nice expression that we use when someone doesn’t do something, or backs out of it, because they became too nervous, or lost their nerve.

Johnny语法博客：小菜一碟

We say something is ‘a piece of cake’ when it’s really easy to do, the idea of the expression is that doing the task is as easy and possibly as nice as eating a piece of cake.

Johnny语法博客：给我多少钱也不干

‘Not for all the tea in China’ means that we wouldn’t do something even if we were offered a fortune.

Johnny语法博客：我不在乎

Have you ever heard the expression ‘I couldn’t care less’? We use it informally to show that we don’t feel upset about something.

Johnny语法博客：复数、多义词和标点

We all know that English is a bit of a crazy language, so I thought I’d share some of the craziest things about the English language with you.

Johnny语法博客：各种动物的声音