Teacher Joseph
Enseignant professionnel
Today's phrase is “to have no qualms” and if you have no qualms about doing something, it means you're not worried that it may be wrong in some way. You have no hesitations, apprehensions, uneasiness or moral difficulty with the action. For example. if you recommend a certain way of doing something you can say, I have no qualms with this. It means I don't have any problems with it. I don't have any issues with that. Now, we only ever use this in the negative. Okay, you can’t say I have qualms with something. Maybe in Old English, that was the case, but we don't use that now. Let's look at some examples. So, the doctor is low on resources and he has to decide which patients he's going to treat. Is it going to be the one with cancer first? Or maybe the one with the flu. And the doctor might say, I have no qualms about my decision. And in the past tense he can say I had no qualms. Likewise a business owner, who's going to fire his employees during a tough economic time. He might say I have no qualms about downsizing the company. In the past, I had no qualms or maybe even I will have no qualms in the future. Um, imagine that there's a breakup between two of your friends. Uh, maybe a relationship coming to an end. You might hear one of them saying I have no qualms about this. No qualms about this coming to an end. Uh, another example, Someone who jumps out of aeroplanes and hopes his parachute will open in mid air, he might say, I have no qualms about risking my life. And also, with speaking your mind, Uh, if you're quite a direct person you can say I have no qualms about telling people how feel.
To Have no Qualms (with transcript)
7 mai 2024 08:06