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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
Learning English.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
In American English, we use many expressions to describe when two people have a lot of similarities or are very close. Here are some examples.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
If we say two people are joined at the hip, they are nearly always together.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
If we describe individuals as thick as thieves it means they are very close. People considered two peas in a pod have many things in common.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
And we use the term kindred spirits to describe people who often share the same opinions and interests.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
These expressions can represent people who grew closer for different reasons. Maybe they complemented each other well in certain ways.
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Or maybe their situations brought them together for the purpose of completing something important or meaningful.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
But today we are going to discuss a very special kind of relationship one that involves two people who are romantically involved and very successful.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
People in such relationships can be described as power couples
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
There are many examples of famous power couples, including successful movie stars, musicians and others in the performing arts.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
But power couples can exist in many other industries and communities, as well. And, the two people do not have to work in the same industry.
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If they do, however, that can make them even more powerful.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
For example, a well-known architect who builds homes could be partnered with a famous designer who decorates them.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
Or, one person in a power couple may be a music producer, while the other is a famous singer.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
Even though power couples involve highly successful people, one person could describe their partner as their better half
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
This is a way to compliment their “other half” in the relationship. For example, one might say during a meeting with a friend, “Hello!
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How are you? And more importantly, how is your better half?”
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
Now, let’s hear two friends use some of these expressions.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
You guys have been joined at the hip for weeks. Looks like you’re thick as thieves.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
B: What are you talking about?? We’re not thick as thieves or kindred spirits, and we’re definitely not a power couple.
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What Does It Take to Be a 'Power Couple'?
We are just working hard on the same project! And that’s all the time we have for this Words and Their Stories
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
Several top U.S. universities say they will require standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT from applicants again.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
Some of them went “test-optional” during the pandemic. The schools include Dartmouth College, Georgetown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, said students from other countries will need to submit results from those tests or “an equivalent standardized national exam.”
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What International Students Should Know about SAT and ACT
Allen Koh is the founder of Cardinal Education, a company that helps students with college preparation, including applications.
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