{"id":1194,"date":"2020-01-23T14:43:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2020-01-23T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T14:43:22","slug":"phrase-of-the-week-fingers-crossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/phrase-of-the-week-fingers-crossed\/","title":{"rendered":"PHRASE OF THE WEEK: Fingers crossed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>20 January 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you say \u2018fingers crossed\u2019 to someone, you are telling them that you hope they will be successful or lucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/POW-pic-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/POW-pic-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/POW-pic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/POW-pic-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/POW-pic-666x500.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/POW-pic-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/POW-pic.jpg 1171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m nervous, Turki \u2013 it\u2019s my IELTS exam tomorrow.&#8221;<br>&#8220;Fingers crossed, Ahmed!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/hilderstoneexperience?source=feed_text&amp;epa=HASHTAG&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCSGjAXn15GHic-5pRhWlxOF6fM78O_R23U3AEGQJFj4kqt3stR0dLlGMH4WKsmCD4ARSXlaL9i269SYLVrjBf6BnLqTwsGwYp1DVQKIciiI-5qGMT2Ln6q3r4BxxIDVaF9gEV5gmCOn5qcWoNnMfIn7aXz12scb3Wx2QSwPZRZ0F6wgd7b-r-bmJCX4dVyewernOBkfrcIyk65KQuoJaPZsvICvMKBcqbfBmKbRasA-wbmuYmmA26S5J6BKw7KIASfz8xD8gMhlg1d8iFStwUG7tYBoeXOJmwXFBpUgXDaW43Yiq3Ff8TBYsjEHrCRquQhkz9-Nud0ECI&amp;__tn__=%2ANK-R\">#HilderstoneExperience<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/hilderstonephraseoftheweek?source=feed_text&amp;epa=HASHTAG&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCSGjAXn15GHic-5pRhWlxOF6fM78O_R23U3AEGQJFj4kqt3stR0dLlGMH4WKsmCD4ARSXlaL9i269SYLVrjBf6BnLqTwsGwYp1DVQKIciiI-5qGMT2Ln6q3r4BxxIDVaF9gEV5gmCOn5qcWoNnMfIn7aXz12scb3Wx2QSwPZRZ0F6wgd7b-r-bmJCX4dVyewernOBkfrcIyk65KQuoJaPZsvICvMKBcqbfBmKbRasA-wbmuYmmA26S5J6BKw7KIASfz8xD8gMhlg1d8iFStwUG7tYBoeXOJmwXFBpUgXDaW43Yiq3Ff8TBYsjEHrCRquQhkz9-Nud0ECI&amp;__tn__=%2ANK-R\">#hilderstonephraseoftheweek<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 January 2020 If you say \u2018fingers crossed\u2019 to someone, you are telling them that you hope they will be successful or lucky. &#8220;I\u2019m nervous, Turki \u2013 it\u2019s my IELTS exam tomorrow.&#8221;&#8220;Fingers crossed, Ahmed!&#8221; #HilderstoneExperience#hilderstonephraseoftheweek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[221,220,90,219,107,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}