The world of Idioms-2

I bet that you may have someone where you work that acts like they know more than the owner of the company how to handle things. There is a reason of why one is the owner and the other one is the employee. Nobody can be more loyal than the owner but some people are always out there showing their loyalty to the level of obnoxiousness and then they become very unpopular among their colleagues. I know they may harbor good intensions but there is a reason this idiom is created and you can flip it sideways and say that they can be Teachers' pet, although in this case, they become the favorite of the teacher not become one. And then there are others which can be equally applied to the work place or any other activity if you want. They are "bored to death” and "sick and tired". Bored to death means you have nothing to do, well you can use it if you are at work, at home or anywhere else where you don’t really know how to kill your time. Sick and tired means that you are completed done with one task and don’t want to do it anymore and again it can be applied at home or at work or even when you receive bills. One more is " I am so hungry I can eat a horse" which means you are extremely hungry and have build up a good appetite to eat much more. I know that everybody have this kind of feeling from time to time. And I use this quite often. There are many more idioms which I can write about but you get the idea about what the world of idiom is.

The world of Idioms

I must admit that I don’t know very many idioms but I do love them and use it frequently whenever the need arises. Idioms are a fun way to express what one feels about a person without offending them in the process but they still get the message and also to say it in a way that is not insulting for anybody. I use the one called "Birds of a feather flock together" meaning people of the same kind or view or race or whatever is common among them stay together. Another one is “don’t cry over spilt milk" meaning that if something is done mistakenly, don’t cry over it and get out with your lives. "The grass is greener on the other side of the pasture" it means that one always feel that something is always better than what they have now. The same goes with "all that glitters is not gold" which is not all things seems to be worth the gold they look. One of my favorite ones is "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" as it states that what you have in hand in certainty is worth more than two with uncertainty. The best one of all (and I sure there are others which I may not have heard or not use it that often) is "more loyal than the king". It just means that who can be more loyal than the king to his kingdom and it can equally applied in these times since I have had bosses who are really fiercely more loyal than the management of the company and who sometimes questions the motive of the managers like they own the place or they know more than the owner or the manager of the company.

Religion is a personal matter

I have been writing about religion and how it is being used wrongly and by personal interpretation of the scripture for their own needs good or evil. And really apart from the United States and some other secular countries, most of the countries try to impose the majority views (even if they are in the wrong) of religion on minorities. This religious tool of the government becomes a kind of propaganda and terror tool to harass the minorities and anybody who does not agree with the state view of religion. It is this state imposition along with the propaganda that is creating so much tension in many countries of the world. I really hate the fact somebody may try to impose their religious views on me as I don’t impose it on them. I really try to avoid all sorts of religions conversations with my friends, family members and anybody who I have known for a long time as religion is a very sensitive subject and you don’t want to get into an argument that may result in hurting somebody's religious beliefs. There are some states who just want cohesion in the name of religion and they try to see the other way while their majority uses violence to either convert the rest of the minority or just kill them. And this I don’t understand. Why is a state and the majority feel so afraid of the minority religion that they become intolerable which is completely opposite to what the religion preaches (whichever religion that be). Religion should be a personal matter and nobody should impose their views and if they are so intolerable about it than they should facilitate the migration of the minorities to countries where this hypocrisy not practiced or preached.

The things you do for your job

We all know how the job market works (or we think we do anyway) and if you have a job or a looking for one, you know how you bend over backwards to make sure you keep your job and please your boss in whatever dignified way you can. And if you have been unemployed some point in your life and got another one, you know how much you appreciate to even have a job (I have been unemployed two times and so I know how appreciative I am to have the current one). Now I have read and experienced the way people go out of their way to make their bosses happy (even if they don’t want to) helping and not saying a word about work or work load (sometimes) and doing extra work. Even coming early in the morning before your boss is in the office and leaving the office after he/she is long gone. You and your family who have gone through a lot during your unemployment period make sure now that you don’t do anything that will jeopardize your current job even sometimes your legitimate right at your job becomes like an issue as you don’t want to be seen as being lazy or not willing to go to that extra mile. When you are looking for a job, you want to look your best in terms of a perfect resume, outstanding cloths, unmatched etiquettes and manners just to impress the employer that you are the one who will contribute immensely to their company. And it goes on that although we don’t want to come off as being desperate to get a job but with all the perfection or near perfection we do in preparing for an interview, we do show that we are desperate and willing to get hands on that elusive checkbook and I believe that it not only happens in the U.S. but throughout the world that the things you do for your work that sometimes (but not always) you don’t do even for your family (although the job you are pursuing or wanting to pursue is also for your family).