SLV IAS

🏆🥇 #ImproveYourEnglish #Session_177👇 1. “Scam” “A word that is very much in the news these days. A scam is ‘a dishonest scheme; a swindle’. So a fraudulent or a deceptive operation can be referred to as a scam. Vijay was caught in an insurance scam. The athlete was involved in a betting scam. I have just come up with a scam that’s bound to make us all rich. Scam has also another meaning; it is a ‘large scale plan to smuggle and distribute illegal drugs’. Nobody is really sure about the origin of this word. In fact, most dictionaries do not include scam; it is basically American slang.” 2. “Curtain lecture” “The lecture refers to the scoldings that a wife gives her husband at bed time, especially at a time when all that he wants to do is sleep! Just as we hang mosquito nets around our beds, it was common practice in England during the 17th and 18th centuries to hang drapes or curtains around their beds. When the couple got into their bed and the curtain were drawn, the wife began her complaints. Hence the expression ‘curtain lecture’. The expression became very popular during the mid 19th century when William Jerrold’s Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain-lectures was published in Punch. The expression is still in use today. It also refers to any dressing down or scolding given to anyone in private. The scolding needn’t necessarily be given by a wife, it can be anyone — parents, relatives, friends, etc. And what’s more, the place for the curtain lecture needn’t be restricted to the bedroom. It can be given anywhere; but what is important is that it should be out of earshot of others. In other words, the reprimand should not be heard by others. My father gave me a curtain lecture on cigarette-smoking.”

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