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"To Travel Light" or "To Pack Light"
"To Travel Light" or "To Pack Light"
"To Travel Light" or "To Pack Light"
“We have to walk a fair way from the station to our hotel, so try to pack light.”
“We only stayed for three days, so we packed light!”
“Do you need some help collecting your luggage, or are you travelling light?”
“We're going to hit the road at 8am.” We're going to leave at 8am.
“We hit the road early so that we reached the village by lunchtime.”
Now, this idiom is just as easily used when you're at a barbecue with friends and you decide
it's time to go home. You can say “Okay, it's time to hit the road” or “It's time I hit the road”
Notice how this idiom can change depending on the tense. Same with the next one –
Another idiom that's similar is “first thing”. It means before anything else is done in the
morning.
“We were so exhausted that we decided to call it a day and ordered room service in our hotel
room!”
“Let's just call it a day and go to the pub!”
“I need to call it a night, I've been dancing for 12 hours!!”
“Itchy feet”
Okay, so this idiom is used when someone feels the need to travel. They don't want to stay
still! My friends always tell me
that I have got itchy feet!
“After being away from work for so long, it's really difficult to sit at my desk for eight hours a
day! I've got itchy feet already!”
“I noticed that Ben is really distracted at the moment. Do you think he's got itchy feet?”