PE 9/19 What Do You Actually DO All Day?

If you were my husband and not my brother, I would divorce you for that comment! But since you’re obviously not the sharpest tool in the shed, I’ll tell you what I do all day.

* not the sharpest tool in the shed: not very smart; stupid

ex> Watching Chris try to unlock his apartment door with his car key, you could tell he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed.

So far, so good. Sounds easy enough.

* so far, so good: progress has been satisfactory up to this point

ex> So far, so good, she thought, as she crossed the border into Poland.

Right, sounds easy. But that’s just a warm-up. Next, I go around the house collecting laundry from all the various places people leave it.

* warm-up / warm up: an exercise done to loosen up one’s muscles or thought processes

ex> Let’s warm up before we start our morning jog.

Let me cut to the chase: I cook, clean, clean some more, do laundry, organize the kids’ activities and drive them to and from said activities, shop for groceries, get repairs taken care of if something in the house breaks, and about a dozen other things.

* cut to the chase: to skip the formalities and get right to the substance of the matter

ex> Let me cut to the chase and tell you that you won’t be able to enter the museum with that camera.

I’ll take that as an apology and a compliment, Bruce. Oh, and lunch is on you.

* be on someone: to offer to pay for something

ex> Put your credit card away, dinner is on me.