Don’t play a mug's game? Got it?

Today’s English
August 29th, 2017

If you are empty, I mean, with little knowledge, you should keep quiet.  Otherwise you will breathe life into the proverb – “empty vessel makes more noise.”  But how can you keep your stomach empty and continue your work even without taking the lunch or dinner?  So don’t work like a machine and take food at the right time.  Because, you know, as the English expression goes, “an empty sack cannot stand upright.”

1. As empty vessel makes more noise, they made all fuss about the matter.
2. First let’s have lunch and then work. Don’t you know “an empty sack cannot stand upright.”?

If you feel that in future a situation will turn out to be bad than expected to be good, you can use the phrase, “see/think the glass as half empty.”
1. The present situation in Tamil nadu makes everyone think the glass as half empty.
2. I see the glass as half empty. Don’t look for any favour from the management.

Have you heard about the phrase “empty nesters"? It refers to parents whose children have grown up and left them.  It shows how much the parents miss them with whom they had their whole heart. An activity that is totally useless is also said to be empty, in other words, it’s “a mug's game.”  If you are doing any such thing, don’t forget that you are “chasing your tail” like a cat.

1. All parents have to turn one day “empty nesters.”
2. Please understand that all your activities on WhatsApp and Facebook is but a mug's game.
3. You can never solve the problem in this system.  You are just chasing your own tail.

“You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.”
- J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”