Taboos

23日、24日とレッスンを受けています。いろいろ話し聞いてくれる先生なので楽しくレッスンできました。

1. If you frown on something, you don’t approve of it.

My mother frowns on using smartphones at the dinner table.

2. If you jinx something/someone, you do something that will cause bad luck to happen to a thing or person.

I don’t want to tell anyone about my possible promotion because I might jinx it!

3. If you think that something is a bunch of nonsense, you feel that it’s foolish and untrue.

Many young people today think that superstitious beliefs are a bunch of nonsense.