Big mouth. I mean literally. (source: www.ebaumsworld.com)

In the U.S., every year, there is a day we can have additional one more hour. It was yesterday. One hour is so much appreciated, especially on Sunday. We can sleep a little more. 🙂  How nice! But, this one hour is the hour we lost in Spring. Do you know what this system is called? It is day-light saving time. When I was young, we used to have the same system in Korea. I am not sure why but the Korean government named this system in English. Do you know what they called it? It was not day-light saving time. It was summer time. When I first got here in the U.S., I used to use “summer time,” meaning day-light saving time. But, many of my American friends did not quite get what I meant by summer time. So… is summer time really incorrect?

Now, let’s talk about big vs bad! If you see someone who really really loves to talk, you know, boast about himself/herself and talk about other people, usually bad things, what would you call him/her? Let me give you a hint? What part of body is he/she using when he/she talks? Haha.. I know… It is too easy for you. You can call him/her “big mouth.” I mean, if someone just cannot stop talking about all the people, then you can even call him/her “gigantic mouth.”

How about badmouth? When would you use it? Pretty easy, right? Well, when I first heard the expression, I thought it means smelly mouth. You know if someone did not brush his/her teeth and tries to talk, you can smell. But, badmouth has nothing to do with smell. In fact, it means criticizing. For example, if you do not like a TV show, you can badmouth it. I like these mouth expressions because they are very intuitive and easy to use although you do not want to be the subject of these expressions. 🙂 It would be a lot easier to learn English if the expressions are all like these, right? I am sure so many people out there would agree with me.

But once again, if something is too easy, then it is not really fun anymore. You should really enjoy challenges.