High-flyer [#Phrasestoknow🌋 ] Meaning: someone who is successful or who has the ability to success 具才幹、能力高人一等的人 Sentences: 1️⃣ A little gentle encouragement is all that is needed to put this promising author into the ranks of the high-flyers. 2️⃣ Often they are the young, high-flyers who are so necessary for the success of small businesses. 3️⃣ To me, all of you are high-flyers. All you have to do is believe in yourself and you’ll nail the exam! #2021DSE Origin [中文版] 原來呢句idiom係源自希臘神話既。話說以前有個叫 Icarus 既人打算逃獄，於是佢就用雀仔既羽毛同埋蠟嚟整成一對翼。當時佢既爸爸提醒佢飛既時候千祈唔好飛得太近個太陽，但Icarus偏偏冇聽，結果太陽既熱力就將啲蠟融化曬，佢既越獄計畫亦宣告失敗。所以其實當呢句idiom喺16世紀流行既時候，佢係用嚟形容一啲蠢人㗎，只係經過時代既變遷，呢個句子就滿滿演變成依家既意思啦。 嗯，所以你覺得 Icarus 符唔符合現代 high-flyer 既準則呢？ Origin [英文版] The expression comes from a Greek legend. It is about a man called Icarus who wanted to escape from prison with wings made of feathers and wax. His father warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, yet Icarus ignored his father and had the sun melted the wax such that the feathers fell off from Icarus’s wings. So, we know that when the idiom was coined in the 16th century, it was used to refer to unwise people, but as time goes by, it is being used to, on the contrary, refer to people who have the ability. So, was Icarus a high-flyer after all? Extra Vocabulary ✨ promising (adj.) 有前途的、大有作為的 coined (v.) 創造（新詞等） #🌋🐸 ——— #Vocabno #DSEEnglish #hkdseenglish #English #DSE #2021DSE #2021dsefighter #22DSE #2022DSE #2022dsefighter #23DSE #2023DSE #2023dsefighter #24DSE #2024DSE #2024dsefighter #DSEReading #DSEWriting #DSESpeaking #HKDSE #Dsetips #大學 #dsestudygram #studygram #dsegayau #DSE英文 #英語學習 #學英文