Who taught: Andrew

This afternoon, Andrew pinged me, saying “fall off a log”

I said “it sounds like painful! Does it mean something hard?” Well, it turns out that this expression can be used when you describe something very easy.

For example, “To me, rock climbing is as easy as falling off a log.” Well, I fall off the wall a lot when I rock climb. It makes sense, I guess.

But then, after work, I went to Harris Grill cafe to meet my friends and there I met Andrew and Beth with their friends. We were all surprised and they actually were in the middle of talking about my blog and me. They asked me, “What did you learn today?” So, I told them, “falling off a log!” Funny thing is almost all of them did not know what it means. WTH! Andrew, do you teach me the expressions no one uses at all.

I think I need to consider changing my main teacher.

By the way, there is also an expression in Korean which is exactly the same meaning. ??? ??? (nu-weo-seo dduk-meok-ki). If I translate this in English, hmm…. “Eating rice cake, lying on my back!” Now, it makes me think about the origination of the Korean expression. Why?? hmm.. I need to research more. Interesting!! I, as Korean, do not know why we use it.