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#284 . catch someone red-handed | |

MOTIVATION “๋„ค ์ด๋…€์„!!! ๋”ฑ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ์–ด!!” ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ ๋ชฐ๋ž˜ ๋‚˜์œ ์ง“์„ ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ํ˜„์žฅ์—์„œ ๋”ฑ ๊ฑธ๋ ค๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? “๋”ฑ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค"...

#283 . at the top of the hour | |

image source: piermanparisMOTIVATION ์—ํŽ ํƒ‘์€ ๋งค ์ •์‹œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋ฐ˜์ง์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ “๋งค ์ •์‹œ"๋ฅผ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ• ๊นŒ? on the hour๋ผ๊ณ  ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์ง€...

#282 . stay abreast of something | |

image source: MOTIVATION ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ์œผ๋ ค๋ฉด, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์Šต๋“ํ•ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์–ด๋–ค ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ hotํ•œ์ง€ ๋“ฑ์„ ์•„๋ ค๋ฉด, ํ•™์ˆ ์ง€๋„ ์ฝ๊ณ ...

#281 . X canโ€™t hold a candle to Y | |

MOTIVATION ์—ฌ์ž์นœ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌป๋Š”๋‹ค. “์Ÿค๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ป, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ๋ป?” ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋Œ€๋‹ต์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค. DEFINITION COMMENT ๋ณดํ†ต A can’t hold a candle to B์˜ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์“ฐ์ธ...

#280 . breathe down oneโ€™s neck | |

์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ํ‘œํ˜„์€ Emma Seol ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค (Hat tip^^) . MOTIVATION ์‚ด๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์น˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์„ ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. “์–ด์šฐ..์งœ์ฆ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ, ์žฌ์ด‰ ์ข€ ์ œ๋ง ๊ทธ๋งŒ&helli...

#279 . Oneโ€™s heart is in the right place | |

image source: michaelsseaver.comMOTIVATION ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๋‹น์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ์ž˜๋ชป์„ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ• ๊นŒ? It’s okay! ๋˜๋Š” well, itโ€™s fine ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ข€ ๋” ์„ธ๋ จ๋˜๊ฒŒ “๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„. ๋‚˜...

#278 . lend oneself to N #2 | |

MOTIVATION “lends itself to” ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์˜ˆ์ „์— ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋‹ค๋ฃฌ ์ด๋””์—„์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์ด ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ž์œ ์ž์žฌ๋กœ ์“ฐ๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์˜ˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•ด์„œ ์ฝ๊ณ , ์‹ค์ œ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋‚˜ ๊ธ€์—์„œ ์จ๋ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค. ์›Œ๋‚™ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ...

#277 . bread and butter | |

MOTIVATION “์•„์ด๊ณ  ๋จน๊ณ  ์‚ด๊ธฐ ํž˜๋“ค๋‹ค.” ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์„ ์ข…์ข… ๋“ฃ๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋ฌธ๋“ ๋“  ์ƒ๊ฐ. ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋จน์—ฌ ์‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ. ์ฆ‰ “์ฃผ ์†Œ๋“์›"์„...

#276 . in a pinch | |

MOTIVATION ์ผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋Šฅ์ˆ™ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋ญ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ๊นŒ? ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋‚œ๊ด€์— ๋ถ€๋”ชํ˜€๋„, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ๋“  ๋น ์ ธ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ธ๋‹ค. ๋”ฑํžˆ ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์ด ์—†์–ด๋„, “์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ๋“  ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•...

#275 . with flying colors | |

image source: utulsaMOTIVATION ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•ด์„œ, ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜? DEFINITION COMMENT flying colors ์œ„ํ‚คํŽ˜๋””์•„ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ํด๋ž˜์‹ํ•œ ํ‘œํ˜„์ด๋‹ค. ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ์š”์•ฝํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, ์˜›...

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