Definition of Bread and Butter

Mmm… this morning I just ate a slice of bread, salad, and butter but I feel very fresh and strong. Yes, I need to have breakfast every morning before I go to work because I am going to go to my bread and butter. I love my bread and butter so much because I need to buy bread and butter for breakfast.

Bread and butter is an English Idiom meaning a job or activity that provides us with money. But In the above paragraph, the last “bread and butter” does not mean a job, so you need to pay attention to the context when defining “bread and butter”.

Assure vs. Ensure Vs. Insure

Assure is used to make someone or people or animal sure about something. For instance, I assure you will find something very interesting in Indonesia.

Ensure is used to make something as in the condition. For instance, I ensure Jakarta is the right place for you to take holidays.

Insure is used for financial term, especially in the word Insurance.

However, all of the three words have the same meaning, to remove doubt on something.

Confused to use “bored with” or “bored of”

No need to be confused when you want to say that something, e.g. work, school, song, etc, has made you bored or tired. In this case, you can say, “I am bored with my work” or “I am tired of my work”. So what about “I am bored of my work”?

In my opinion and according to the lesson I have got, the word “bored” should be followed by “with”, not by “of”, while when you want to use the word “tired”, you should use the word “of”. So what do you think? Do you have any opinion about “bored with” and “bored of”? 

One of a kind

One of a kind can be meant as “unique”. If I say that your hairstyle is one of a kind, it means that I will never find anymore people who have the hairstyle like you have. You are the only one who has such hairstyle. Anyway, I am not so sure if you are really the only one, but I am really interested to say that so you will feel flattered. I also can say a fact that I have never found someone with such a hairstyle. So, in this case, “one of a kind”, in general, just to say that one thing or one person is unique as far as the speaker knows.

As usual, please contribute here by giving us your voices in the comment box below.

So-Called definition

“So-Called” means commonly called or named by such a name, or popularly known or called by the term. So, in the use of sentence or conversation, the word “so-called” is used as an adjective to designate inaccurate or questionable or doubt, or also to let know that a thing is known as the term.

Those so-called experts cannot even answer my easy questions. (You say this when you have doubt if they are called the experts, or you think those persons are not suitable to be called as the experts).

Bali, the so-called island of Gods, is very beautiful. (You say this when you let people know that Bali is popularly called the Island of Gods)

Well, that’s all from me, at least, that’s from what I have found from browsing on the Internet about “So-Called” definition. I hope that you can voice your knowledge here.

Vocabulary Builder Software

Hello, English learners, how is the progress of your English? Do you still need to improve? What if I recommend you the vocabulary builder software so you have the excellent vocabulary, will you love it? Of course, you will love it because by mastering the vocabulary, you will easily to master English in any medium including writing and speaking.

The vocabulary builder software is Vocaboly, which contains five books, i.e. SAT, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT and VOA Special English. When you learn the words there, you also will be given the sentences using those words so you know how to use the words. I think the usage of the words in the sentences is very important because one word can have the different meanings when you use it in the different contexts or sentences, like the word “present” below:

“At present, I present a present to someone that was present at my house yesterday”