Magic Minute Meaning of Words
MAGIC MINUTE // A young German couple sat uneasily in their English class wondering why their teacher had asked them to write down all they know about a working bee.
“What a strange question!” They thought, and began wracking their brains for all the things that came to mind about a working bee.
They look after the young ones in the hive; they fly out looking for flowers to gather pollen… perhaps directing themselves by the sun?; they even do a little dance to communicate with each other on their return!
“In the end we simply ran out of things to say!” They told me.
When the teacher revealed that ‘a working bee’ is an English term for a group of volunteers who give up their time to help others with a task they’d normally have difficulty doing themselves… They burst out laughing!
But they saw the value in the exercise.
For every language has idiomatic sentences whose message is very different from each word’s literal meaning.
Like, a working bee.
I’m Laurie Smale… Till my next Magic Minute. 🪄
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