Nigerian Education Updates

Chapter II The Mail It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom thi...

Chapter I The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,...

"I'm used to it like an eel to skinning" Meaning: "It's nothing new to me. I did it many times" "tal...

"sweep somebody off his/her feet" Meaning: "to make somebody suddenly fall in crazy love with one" "smell a ...

"let somebody off the hook" Meaning: "to let somebody wriggle out at the very last moment (e.g. Saddam Hussein and the S...

"gunboat diplomacy" Meaning: "diplomacy backed by the threat of force" "A pretty pair of shoes." Mean...

"(The) show must go on." Meaning: "Whatever happens, life must continue as before (e.g. independent of somebody's de...

"in the doldrums" Meaning: "in the state of unhappiness and inactivity" "cast pearls before swine" ...