One of my book club members who is the latest one asked me how can she knows the history of our book club’s assignment books. In Fact, she was not the only person to ask that question to me. I actually made only formats of it on my blog several years ago, but It was (3) collecting dust because of my laziness. When I’ve read her message, I decided to achieve the task, I did it (2) cold turkey on February 25th Monday. The history of our book club started in August 2011. I was remembered many anecdotes when I updated my website. In 2012, At that time I changed my job but it was extremely stressful because it needed to make (1) cold calls using old customer list. I released the pressure by enjoyed to plan my book club. We changed the venue from Akihabara to Ikebukuro in 2013. The name of the group changed in 2017. The biggest transformation was the style of meeting in 2018, from real meeting to the web meeting by using the Zoom system. I never imagined if the web meeting system (4) coupled with book reading club, easily over the border connect members till I started to stay abroad. Anyway, after I completed the task and reported it with the secret group of Facebook, several members celebrated my achievement.
homework:
(1)cold calls: If you make cold calls, you telephone potential customers from a list of people you do not know.
(e.g.) “In my first job I had to make cold calls using the telephone directory.”
(2)cold turkey: This term means to immediately and completely stop an addictive substance, a regular activity or a behavioral pattern, instead of ending it gradually.
(e.g.) “When Dave decided to stop smoking, he did it cold turkey on January 1st.
(3)collect dust: If something is collecting dust, it hasn’t been touched or used for a long period of time.
(e.g.) “My dad doesn’t play golf anymore. His clubs are collecting dust now.”
(4)Coupled with
Usage: Used when considering two or more arguments at a time.
Example: “Coupled with the literary evidence, the statistics paint a compelling view of…”
notice
In this article, I try to appropriate use 4 idioms or words(No.1~4) in this article which I write my daily life and thoughts because I’m learning English. This is one of the writing training.