PE 10/31 Let’s Not Pass Out Candy to Trick-or-treaters

I decided that we won’t pass out candy this year. I think it’s a bad tradition that encourages kids to eat candy until they’re as full as a tick.

* pass out: to distribute; give something from hand to hand

ex> The ladies passed out packs of tissues to people coming out of the subway.

* full as a tick: having overeaten

ex> We learned back in our seat, full as ticks after eating steaks and French fries.

Note> A “tick” is a blood-sucking insect. So it alludes to a tick that has filled itself with blood.

That is the biggest cock and bull story you've ever told! Anyway, I love Halloween with all the costumes and the happy children yelling “Trick or treat!”

Fine. To tell you the truth, I forgot to get the candy. So why don’t we go downstairs to the TV room and watch a scary movie and turn all the lights off? That way, none will be the wiser that we’re actually home.

* none will be the wiser: no person will know what was done

ex> If you sneak out the back door during the show, none will be the wiser.

Now it’s all starting to come together.

* come together: to become a coherent story; make sense

ex> When it all came together, the detectives caught the real killer and released the man who they had set up.

Don’t try to psychoanalyze me over not experiencing Halloween as a kid. I look back on it now as a blessing in disguise. I just don’t understand the importance, that’s all.

* blessing in disguise: something that may have seemed negative end up having positive benefits

ex> Being sent home from school sick was a blessing in disguise for Max because the snow storm prevented buses from picking up the children in the afternoon.