Do you eat, sleep and breathe your work?

Today’s English
July 3rd, 2017

If you are so energetic, devoted to and passionate about something, it can be said in English that you eat, sleep and breathe it.  Such people are very rare, aren’t they?

1. Cricket is everything to him and he eats, sleeps and breathes it. (=he is so enthusiastic and devoted to it)

2. Whatever the work is given to her, she eats, sleeps and breathes it. (= she does it enthusiastically and sincerely)

If you work like this with a lot of energy and enthusiasm, in English, it is said that you “fling yourself into it.”

1. I’m so happy to see all your team members fling themselves into the project.
2. It’s a Herculean task.  Unless we fling ourselves into it, we can never complete it. (= unless we work with a lot of energy and enthusiasm…..)

Can you always do your work like this enthusiastically, energetically and devotedly? Yes, why not? It’s possible as well as very easy, if you “put your heart and soul into it" This expression is also common in spoken English.

1. How is it possible that you always do your work sincerely and energetically? It’s simple. I just put my heart and soul into it.
2. Today we have first year counselling work. Let’s put our heart and soul into it to complete it successfully.

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
- Thomas A. Edison