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16. Juni 2023 · I know there are lots of examples where you can find "shame on me", including a proverb. However, I remember how a few teachers (not only ESL teachers from my country but also the native speakers) mentioned that one can say "shame on you" but not "shame on me". I even remember the phrase "shame works with you but not with me". So, my question ...
(1) It's a shame we can't take them home with us. (2) It's a shame that you haven't read this book. In such situations, speakers definitely don't mean "a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute" by "shame". But for many non-native English speakers, it still sounds rude and offensive to listeners. For instance, I never dare to say to my ...
1. In my experience, this is a fairly friendly phrase roughly equivalent to "That's too bad" or "I'm sorry to hear that." It doesn't have anything to do with either conversationalist feeling shame. Person A: "I wanted to take my mom out for dinner yesterday, but there was too much snow." Person B: " That's a shame.
So it is clear that the author wrote "for shame" followed by an explanation deliberately, in order to play on "For shame!", in order to sneak in an expression of his or her own disapproval of the situation. "Which is a shame" is simply an expression that the preceding situation is unnecessary, wasteful or regrettable in some way.
11. Mai 2017 · Grandmother catches the speaker in the act and the speaker feels shame; The speaker relates the experience; the sentence should be: "When she walked in, I felt shame wash over me because she caught me doing something she had forbidden me to do." If the order of events is . Grandmother forbids something ; Grandmother catches the speaker in the act
11. Jan. 2017 · She felt shame that she could not help the children in Syria. she felt guilty that she could live comfortably but the children in Syria were suffering and there was nothing she could do. In your example, two possible different meanings might be. It's a shame that the price of this book will put it beyond the reach of many readers.
6. Juni 2022 · My insight tells me that the saying has its "punch" in contrasting what the biting party might expect: "that once bitten => once shy". But the point is to correct his expectation kind of saying "no Siree ... I am not taking it lightly, I am taking it twice as seriously as you would expect. It's not a one-to-one relationship". (If it was one-to-one the biter could set into motion a circularly ...
2) Shame on you! What a shame! [What a shame or what a pity are idiomatic expressions; they mean: too bad, for a situation, they both take a]. 3) Please show honor to your elders. It is an honor for me to be here. 3) is not grammatical. We'd say: Please honor your elders. [verb] It is an honor for me to be here. [right] It is a pity this ...
4. März 2019 · 10. Shamed is what one does to you. Ashamed is about how you feel about yourself. Shamed could be punitive, ashamed shows remorse sometimes repentance. If a person has no shame, then others might view their behavior or conduct as shameful and thus shame them, but the individual who has no shame is not (yet) ashamed of anything they have done or ...
21. Nov. 2016 · I wonder whether I can use the expressions, "It is a shame that ~." and "It is a pity that ~." when during a soccer match our ball misses the target by a tiny distance. For example, can I say "It is a shame that our ball missed the target by a tiny distance! We almost scored!" or "It is a pity that our ball missed the target by a tiny distance ...
