{"id":4539,"date":"2015-09-15T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2015-09-15T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:16:19","slug":"idiom-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/idiom-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/idiom-be-on-the-ball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4540\" alt=\"idiom- be on-the-ball\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/idiom-be-on-the-ball.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/idiom-be-on-the-ball.jpg 350w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/idiom-be-on-the-ball-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/idiom-be-on-the-ball-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/idiom-be-on-the-ball-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/idiom-be-on-the-ball-190x189.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/idiom-be-on-the-ball-280x280.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Did you know what does \u00a0being on the ball mean?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0If you look at this English idiom \u00a0literally, it means to be either standing or sitting \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0on a ball\u2014but \u00a0who would do that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0If\u00a0you\u2019re on the ball\u00a0it means that you\u2019re very quick to understand certain things, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0very \u00a0 prepared for something or react quickly (and correctly) to a situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0For example, if you\u2019re planning your wedding that is still one year away from now \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0and you\u2019ve \u00a0almost finished with\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0the planning already, you\u2019re definitely\u00a0on the \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0ball\u00a0because not many \u00a0people are that prepared!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWow, you\u2019ve already finished your assignments? There not due until\u00a0next week, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0you\u2019re really\u00a0on \u00a0the ball. I wish I could be more organized.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Did you know what does \u00a0being on the ball &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35,34],"tags":[1211,1731,343,1730,1732,421],"class_list":["post-4539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profesionalnews","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-1211","tag-ball","tag-idioms","tag-of-the-week","tag-on-the-ball","tag-september","cat_33","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}