‘Having Skin in the Game’ Is Not as Painful as It Sounds — VOA Learning English
Topics: суспільство
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And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.
On this program we explore words and expressions in the English language. We give examples and notes on usage.
Today we talk about the largest organ of the human body –- our skin! As our protective outer layer, our skin can certainly gather many cuts and wounds.
In English, we have many skin expressions. I wrote about some of them in an earlier Words and Their Stories.
In that story, I talk about expressions like thick-skinned people – people who take criticism well. And if you are comfortable in your own skin, you are happy with who you are.
But today we talk about skin expressions that relate to having personal involvement in a…
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