Have You Felt the 'Walls Are Closing in on You'? — 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 you examples and notes on usage.
Today we go inside a building and talk about a feature of every building – walls.
Walls protect us from the outside world. They can help us stay safe and give us comfort.
But what if we are inside a room too long? Those same walls can start to feel like a prison. We can feel trapped by them. When that happens, we can say the walls are closing in on us.
This means you are feeling confined, or stuck, in an area.
For example, after a year of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, I felt like the walls of my house were closing in…
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