To “tell a yarn” means to tell a story, especially a long and tall one, one that is exaggerated, one that is imagined or at any rate one that is not entirely true. That’s the idea being conveyed in ...
Hence, the local government is considered penny wise but pound foolish, wise and clever in saving small numbers of money but unwise (foolish) and wasteful with large sums. In Chinese, we use a similar ...
据国家卫生健康委2025年1月10日透露,2024年我国居民健康素养水平达到31.87%,比2023年提高2.17个百分点。 China's health literacy rate reached 31.87 percent in 2024, a rise of 2.17 percentage points from the previous year, the National Health ...
Please explain “side-eye treatment” in this passage: It’s impossible not to like Emily Blunt. If you admitted that you didn’t, you’d probably receive side-eye treatment from everyone in the room.