{"id":72775,"date":"2019-11-06T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72775"},"modified":"2019-11-06T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:51:20","slug":"be-a-drag-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/be-a-drag-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Be A Drag | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you say that something is a drag, what you mean is that it is not interesting enough. It is another phrase that can be used instead of words like boring or tiring.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn\u2019t enjoy the film at all. The actors couldn\u2019t deliver a convincing performance. Worse still, the dialogues were a drag.<\/li>\n<li>The lecture was such a drag that I fell asleep in the middle of it.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t enjoy her company. Whatever she says turns into a drag.<\/li>\n<li>I thought that the show would be interesting, but it turned out to be a drag.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be a drag on somebody is to be a burden for them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He is such a drag on his family. He doesn\u2019t work or earn.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t understand why he should be such a drag on me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you say that something is a drag, what you mean is that it is not interesting enough. It is another phrase that can be used instead of words like boring or tiring. I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1833,393],"class_list":["post-72775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-be-a-drag","tag-english-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72776,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72775\/revisions\/72776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}