Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter Today’s post is about words we use for fastening and unfastening things. The verbs fasten and attach are very general. It doesn’t m...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/04/17/talking-about-fastening-things-together/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford This week, I’m looking at the language we use to say that things or people are similar, either in appearance or character. There a...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/04/10/talking-about-similarities-part-1/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter Here in the UK we are well into our spring season, which made me think about the words and phrases we use to describe the plants that a...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/04/03/talking-about-plants/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter We often need to keep our minds fixed on the things we are doing, and this post looks at ways of talking about this. Regular readers kn...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/03/20/talking-about-concentration/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford In my last post, I looked at a range of collocations for the words ‘famous’ and ‘fame’. This week, I’m continuing the ‘f...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/03/13/words-meaning-famous/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford It’s said that the artist Andy Warhol once predicted that in the future, everyone would be world-famous for 15 minutes. We can’t...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/02/28/collocations-of-famous-and-fame/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford In this week’s post, I’m looking at words for fairly minor injuries – the sort of injuries that most of us get now and then as...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/02/14/words-for-minor-injuries/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter For most of us, stress is unfortunately a part of modern life. Today’s post is about words and phrases we use to talk about the exper...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/02/07/talking-about-stress/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Liz Walter Back in 2016, my colleague Kate Woodford wrote a pair of posts on ways of describing good and bad things. However, sometimes things are...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/01/17/things-that-arent-very-good-or-very-bad/
Listen to the author reading this blog post: by Kate Woodford If you’ve resolved to achieve something that requires a lot of effort in 2024, then this post is for you! Today I’m looking at i...
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2024/01/10/idioms-for-making-an-effort/