{"id":43883,"date":"2022-07-04T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=43883"},"modified":"2022-07-04T16:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:39:53","slug":"english-expressions-self-winding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-expressions-self-winding\/","title":{"rendered":"English: expressions: self-winding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, new words and expressions always come up. The tutor mentions one.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThis morning my wife mentioned that someone was &#8220;self-winding.&#8221; By the context I knew she meant they were a self-starter: they didn&#8217;t need to be told to get to work. Yet, I can&#8217;t recall hearing the expression &#8220;self-winding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nUnderstanding the expression &#8220;self-winding&#8221; means you are cognizant of wind-up toys, or wind-up watches, which I wonder if people still use, since so much has changed since the 1970s. &#8220;Self-winding&#8221; is a great expression when the listener understands it.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, new words and expressions always come up. The tutor mentions one. This morning my wife mentioned that someone was &#8220;self-winding.&#8221; By the context I knew she meant they were a self-starter: they didn&#8217;t need to be told to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-expressions-self-winding\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: expressions: self-winding<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expressions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43884,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43883\/revisions\/43884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}