🗓️ Idiom: Find a Balance (verb)
💬 Meaning
- To manage your time and energy so that work, rest, and personal life stay in harmony.
- To avoid focusing too much on one area and neglecting others.
🧠 Example Sentences
- It can be hard to find a balance between career goals and family life.
- The company encourages employees to find a balance between productivity and well-being.
- After months of long hours, he finally found a balance that worked for him.
🏛️ Origin
The idiom comes from the idea of keeping something steady, like a scale that holds equal weight on both sides. These days it describes maintaining stability between different parts of life, especially work and personal time.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
Working too much can cause stress, so it’s important to ________ between your job and your health.
Answer
find a balance
2. Choose the correct answer:
What does “find a balance” mean?
a) Work as much as possible
b) Keep things even and healthy in life
c) Stop working completely
Answer
b) Keep things even and healthy in life
3. Change the sentence using “find a balance”:
“She tries to manage her time between work and relaxation.”
Answer
She tries to find a balance between work and relaxation.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
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