English of the Day

Idiom of the Day

🔰a roller coaster a roller-coaster ride

✍🏾Meaning:

You can say an experience is a roller coaster, or a roller-coaster ride, if it involves many emotional highs and lows, or really good times alternating with really difficult times.

🔺For example:

▪️The movie follows a young guy's emotional roller-coaster ride as he tries to come to terms with being gay in a small town in Australia. ▪️Eric writes about the roller coaster of rock and roll, with the highs of success and fame followed by the lows of drug addiction and depression.

💢Note: If used to modify a noun or a noun phrase, a hyphen is used, as in "a roller-coaster ride".

🗨Origin: Related to the fact that a roller-coaster ride has many steep climbs and falls, and riding one at high speed is both exciting and terrifying. ━━━━━━━━━

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