question (and questions) are a common part of daily life, but that doesn't make them any less challenging to deal with! Today’s idiom—— working on it – exactly solves this problem, as we will see below.
working on it
deal with/struggle/confront
I'm dealing with a lot of bureaucracy.
I ran into a lot of bureaucratic problems.
become is a verb becomeHowever Jack It is a female noun and has different meanings, e.g. catch, hold on tight, hold tightly and deal with. This can also mean Power supply/wall socket.
become struggling It can be literally translated as “mastery”. Although the literal translation looks similar to the English expression to copein Italian this would actually have a different translation – accept (accept), understand (to understand), or master (master) – depends on the context in which it is used.
A synonymous but less poetic expression for this week's idiom is Fight alongside (resistt).
I'm struggling with a lot of bureaucratic issues.
I'm struggling with a lot of bureaucracy.
Heather Broster is a graduate with honors in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, fluent in English and Italian, as well as varying degrees of fluency in Japanese, Welsh and French. Originally from Toronto, Heather has lived in several countries, notably Italy for six years. Her main research areas are language acquisition, education and bilingual teaching.
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