Catch him!

Yesterday a tall athletic man ran by me at full speed. Followed by a very short women  about thirty in a convenience store uniform. She was screaming "Stop thief". I yelled to her if she caught him what she was going to do with him. She stopped running.

今週のワンポイント英会話 第656回 〜Skeleton staff.〜

Skeleton staff. = Only enough staff to function.

必要最小限の人員。

On a holiday, most companies have only a skeleton staff on hand. 

https://youtu.be/yR4XC-UmujM

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今週のワンポイント英会話 第655回 〜On hand. 〜

On hand. = To be present or to have.

手元に。

Since I speak a lot, I always have water on hand.

https://youtu.be/9GJZ-HpD3mI

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Blowout.

I was riding my tricycle yesterday past a discount steak house which was having a special half-price sale day. The sale attracted a great deal of attention. There were about thirty people standing in line in front of the shop when I passed by. While passing, one of my rear tires blew out with a large BOOM! 
It was sounding like a bomb or gunfire. People in the crowd started to dash for cover or plain run away. If I were hungry I would have jumped in front of the line.

~Tim~

Abstention

Abstention: I read recently that a guy gave up women and drinking. He said it was the worst twenty minutes of his life..