English Expressions: Kill them with your kindness

Dialogue

Harry: Hey Donald! You aren’t really with it today! What’s wrong?

Donald: Oh! Those loud neighbors! They’re giving me sleepless nights. They’re renovating their kitchen and making a great racket!

Harry: Why don’t you talk to them and ask them to keep it down?

Donald: Well, I did but I’m going nowhere. We seem to have reached a standoff.

Harry: Why don’t you change your tune and kill them with your kindness?

Donald: How do you mean?

Harry: Consider treating them to a meal or bring some gifts for their kids.

Vocabulary

With it: alert; responsive.

Racket: (noun) an unpleasant loud continuous noise

Keep it down: to be quitter.

Go/get nowhere: make no progress.

Standoff: a situation in which agreement in an argument does not seem possible.

Change one’s tune: express a very different opinion or behave in a very different way.

Kill someone with kindness: to be enormously kind to someone.

Comments

Ehsan

@Lucky 王乐乐 Right. Thank you🌹

2023.06.21 10:30
Lucky 王乐乐

@Ehsan I think it’s from advance daily English expressions by Robert Allan’s there are two parts

2023.06.19 02:36
Ehsan

Hey lucky. I had this conversation on my first exam and i believe i am going to have another conversation from the same book on my second exam. Can i ask you from wich book is this? 🙏

2023.06.18 06:39
Tina

Thanks 🙏 I learned a lot from this post 😊

2021.03.01 10:49
tami

Thank you! I’ll practice more.

2021.03.01 05:05
tami

@Lucky 王乐乐 I see. Thank you!

2021.03.01 01:11
Lucky 王乐乐

@tami Oh these are not my own explanation, it’s directly from a text book

2021.03.01 00:13
tami

Without your explanation, it was hard for me to understand the meaning. I learned a lot! Thank you!

2021.02.28 23:50
Lucky 王乐乐

@Actaeon 😝

2021.02.28 23:30
Actaeon

@Lucky 王乐乐 dedicated to you 🌹

2021.02.28 23:18
Lucky 王乐乐

@Actaeon I love this !

2021.02.28 23:14
Actaeon

@Lucky 王乐乐 sometimes we say it exactly like yours, and we have an proverb for it: از محبت خارها گل می شود I try to translate in English by myself, so excuse me if it doesn't make sense: Because of kindness thorns turn into flowers

2021.02.28 23:04
Lucky 王乐乐

@Actaeon what’s the saying in your language ?

2021.02.28 22:54
Actaeon

Very nice👏🏻actually we have this expression in our language and culture too

2021.02.28 22:29
🦋

Grateful🙂🧚‍♀️🌸

2021.02.28 16:44
Lucky 王乐乐

@Jiao your welcome

2021.02.28 15:58
Lucky 王乐乐

@Farah hahhaa good 😌

2021.02.28 15:58
Farah

Thanks Lucky, this is so helpful. When i still read the upper sentences I was wondering "omg i don't know what do 'with it', 'making great racket', etc mean???" Then i kept reading and i found those meaning. I was like "omg she could read my mind😅"

2021.02.28 15:40
Jiao

Wow, this is so useful! Thanks for sharing!

2021.02.28 15:33