ESL Vocab (7)

 

from the get-go – from the start. i.e. Bob did not like Joe from the get-go. Joe would come to the office and spend most of his time talking to other office staff while Joe tried to work. Bob began to irritate Joe from the get-go.  i.e. From the get-go Debra has been a very hard worker who has initiated a lot of good ideas.

a loud-mouth – someone who talks too much, often too loudly. i.e. There was no doubt about it, the new guy in the office was a loud-mouth who could not focus on his work and who was going to bother Bob every day. “How do I deal with such a loud-mouth?” Bob wondered every morning.

to be rational – the opposite meaning would be ‘emotional’. If you are rational you make decisions by thinking instead of feeling. You use ‘reason’ and not ‘emotion’. You think about possible consequences and whether what you will do will be right or wrong. i.e. Obama was much more rational in his decisions than Trump. Trump just does what he feels like without thinking. i.e. I need to be more rational when I make my choices. I can’t let my emotions guide me not bad decisions.