The phrase ‘Over the Moon’ probably owes its present usage to sporting personalities who describe a win or a magnificent victory as making them feel ‘over the moon’. The origin of this phrase dates back to sometime in the 17th/18th centuries. Fictional characters would be so happy they would have the energy to jump overContinue reading “Over the Moon”
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Moving the goalposts.
In English, we have many idiomatic phrases associated with sports. ‘To move the goalposts’ means to make reaching an objective more difficult for someone by deliberately changing the criteria. ‘ On Monday, my boss said that I’d get a bonus if I increased sales by twenty percent this week. Today he said I wouldn’t getContinue reading “Moving the goalposts.”