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.