I have just searched the term Shrinking
Violet on Google. What have I found? Well, apart from many
pages about the color (violet is also a color, in case you don’t know!), Mr.
Know-it-all has provided me with a great deal of links to a “weight reduction
method that women may use to magically 'reduce by a dress size in one
treatment'”. Needless to say, it has also shown me lots of pictures of women
with measuring tapes as well as books, a Facebook page, and almost naked
ladies.
Never type it in front of your students!
What I was really trying to find was Commonly-Used English
Phrases. When it comes to slang, idioms, phrases and the like, it
really calls my attention!
I have realized that I hadn’t been posting more “PHRASES
OF THE WEEK” and that made me feel guilty. My readers usually come to read
something that make them feel as if they learned something from PORTAL DA LÍNGUA
INGLESA. I have received some messages about that!
I know I have been busy, but since I decided to start
a blog (It’s time-consuming; hard work. Don’t do it!) And then people started
following me, I felt as though I had to share an interesting thing here occasionally.
By the way, do you guys still remember what A FAIR-WEATHER
FRIEND is? No? (Read
here)
[Five minutes
later] Okay. Now that you have just read
another phrases-of-the-week type of post, let’s move on, shall we?
READ THE
SENTENCES BELOW:
“Withington was no shrinking violet either; he was playing up to the widow for all he
was worth.”
(MacLeod, Charlotte SOMETHING IN
THE WATER)
“He's no shrinking
violet when it comes to competition.”
“Try not to be a shrinking
violet at the gathering tonight; everyone there will be casual and no one
will bite!"
“My mother was not by any means a shrinking violet. She had spirit, friends, family and a wide social
network and work contacts.”
“She loves appearing on television and is no shrinking violet when it comes to
expressing her views.”
ENOUGH! Now we have many examples with SHRINKING VIOLET (Pronunciation).
In a nutshell, shrinking violet is:
1 Someone who is
shy; hesitant; or afraid to have a voice in social situations. (Urban Dictionary)
2 Person who is
very shy or modest and does not like to attract attention. (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/)
3 With more
details, The Shrinking Violet is “the withdrawn character, usually but not
always female, who walks through the school hallways with her head down and
wants nothing more than to blend in with the scenery to avoid all attention
because she believes that her presence is worthless or unwanted (…)”
“(…) Some
Shrinking Violets will accept their status, but be plagued with that nagging
feeling that they can be more than they assume. Other Shrinking Violets will
hate their crippling insecurities and want to reach out to others, but be
paralyzed by fear of rejection.”
(http://tvtropes.org/)
The expression, according to phrases.org “may have
originated as the lyrical name of a flower rather than a person but it is now
mainly used figuratively to describe modest and introverted individuals.” (phrases.org.uk)
At this point, you should know what a SHRINKING VIOLET (Pronunciation),
a have a question – are you a Shrinking Violet?
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