“Call the shots” began as a literal shooting term for directing targets or moves, then grew into a common way to mean making decisions.
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Pets Vocabulary Exercise
CEFR A1 beginner ESL vocabulary exercise on common pets and simple pet-related words.
Topic Shift Markers Exercise
C1 ESL multiple-choice gap-fill exercise on topic shift markers. Each item has one correct answer and includes API self-audit fields.
What “hot potato” means and why we say it
“Hot potato” means a difficult or controversial issue that people avoid handling, as if it were too hot to hold for long.
Elflock: the old word for mysteriously tangled hair
Elflock is an old word for tangled, matted hair, named for the former belief that elves slipped in at night and knotted it.