Lesson thirty - two - April 2nd - Fluency

" Let's study that sentence more carefully. ( The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese )

*** " The early bird gets the worm " is a famous saying. " The early bird " is a person not a bird who wakes up early. " Worm" of course just bird likes but if you are an early - bird, you will get more success or more money or more of the good things in life. So, if you're not an early-bird , you can't get your worms.

*** The second half is a little joke " The second mouse gets the cheese. " Imagine a mouse getting cheese out of the trap ...when it pulls it out ..."snap!!" ...the mouse is gone. It's the second mouse ...it coming along and takes the cheese!

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*** Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect! Remember that!

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*** Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

1- to put something off = to wait to do something

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*** " If you want to bake a cake , you have to break a few eggs "

1- bake a cake = it is just an idea. It means anything good that we want to do.
2- bake eggs = it means that you have to do something unpleasant.

*** So this sentence means that if you want to get success you must accept some problems too.

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*** Moses supposes his toeses are roses
*** But Moses supposes erroneously
*** Nobody's toeses are roses...we knowses
*** As Moses supposes his toeses to be.

1- to suppose = to think
2- toeses = this word doesn't exist. The author used it just because it combines with supposes. The real word is "toes"
3- erroneously = mistakenly
4- knowses - this is another wrong word created just to sound like supposes. The correct word is 'knows'

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Joke : Three men were in a bar drinking beer. Two of the men were talking about the control they have over their wives while the third man remained silent. After a while , the first two men turned to the third man and asked: " What about you? What kind of control do you have over your wife? The third man turned to the first two and said: " well, I'll tell you ...just the other day , I had her on her knees." The first two men were dumbfounded! " Wow! " What happened next? " They asked. The third man took a big swig of beer, sighed and muttered : " Then she started screaming " Come out from under the bed , and fight like a man!"