C.E. 63

1. What we do willingly is easy.
2. Out of the blue(comes from " a bolt from the blue")= unexpectedly=without warning
3. Grand Slam
4. dub(means is called): Hangzhou was dubbed paradise on earth.
5. Who's who(n.): Only the who's who of celebrities attend the Academy Awards.
6. Let's say(assume) you're a lobster.
7. (I gather)/(From what I gather) some of your closest advisors were less fulsome in their support.
8. We're workshopping( a seminar emphasizing exchange of ideas and practical methods) it.

1. To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasure, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power is real, its pleasures imaginary.
---- Colton Charles, Britain Priest

2. Too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.
---- Oliver Goldsmith, British Poet

3.Every soil where he is well, is to a valiant man his natural country.
---- Mazinger Philip, British Dramatist

4. We know nothing of what will happern in the future, but by the analogy of past experience.
---- Abraham Lincoln

5.There are no perfect people. Only perfect moments.
---- Sylvester Stallone

6. The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality.
---- Albert Einstein