1. become, grow, turn, wax, come to be The boys were getting bored. 2. persuade, convince, win over, induce, influence, sway, entice, coax, incite, impel, talk into, wheedle, prevail upon How did you get him to pose for this picture? 3. arrive, come, reach, make it (informal)...
There are a lot of shops on this road, like shoe shops, clothes shops... After walking along Main Road for five minutes, I can see a bus stop. I only need to pay 0.5 yuan, and then I can go to work by bus. That's very convenient....
NOTE: Living the expat life, you know you get suckered at times. It’s part of the deal, part of the price you pay for living such an exotic life (I hear you laugh). Sometimes it makes you furious, sometimes it doesn’t, and sometimes it even makes you laugh. I’ve found that ...
with today’s tighter buildings, an exhaust fan should be installed on a timer in all bathrooms. There are not too many people that will open up a window when it is freezing outside leading to a ton of moisture being dumped into the house. The other issue is for those that do, is r...
We also used plain beeswax – adding in jojoba oil and pine resin (you can buy blends) is supposed to make your wax wraps more flexible, but mine seem fine for the purposes I have. We bought our beeswax from a bee products shop (fabulous advantage of living next to a hipster suburb)...
We spend a lot of our life looking for more. More money, more clothes, more friends, more experiences. Do we ever have enough? Sometimes we need to think about what we need and not what we want. We don’t really need much just to survive. Even if we go a bit further and include...
If I find food anywhere other than in my kitchen or the wrappers in the trash can...if I walk downstairs to find toys strewn all about or outside to find shoes, clothes or toys left out... There will be an immediate ban of kids from the area for 2 weeks. ...
I could wax poetic about all this stuff for much longer than a few sentences, but there’s no fun in that for many of us, so I digress. Phase 1: Leaning Out The first phase of what I wanted to do was to begin leaning out. This included two particular activities: ...
Growing up, Kobe followed his father, Joe "Jellybean" Bryant, everywhere. He'd sleep with his basketball clothes on so Joe couldn't say no when he'd ask to go to practice with him. But as Kobe grew older, and learned of the disappointments of his father's NBA career, ...
“You run the risk of irritation, too, as any existing nicks, cuts or rashes—caused by the wax or not—may be aggravated by the tanner depending on the product used, and may also result in an uneven color even if no additional irritation occurs,” she adds. The same goes for shaving...