SELL YOURSELF SHORT and HIT THE GROUND RUNNING

 FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:

 SELL YOURSELF SHORT and HIT THE GROUND RUNNING

 

SELL YOURSELF SHORT:

SELL (SOMEONE, SOMETHING, OR ONESELF) SHORT

 

Meaning:

 

If you SELL YOURSELF SHORT, you are modest about your achievements and good qualities, so that other people don’t realize just how good you are!

 

If you SELL YOURSELF SHORT, you describe yourself as less intelligent, talented, and clever than you really are.

 

Does he never feel that he is SELLING HIMSELF SHORT?

(Note: Here, the reference is to someone being cheated by being given less of something than they are entitled to be paid otherwise).

 

To SELL SOMEBODY/SOMETHING SHORT - To not give someone or something the praise, attention, or reward they deserve.

 

 

Example sentences:

 

Don’t SELL YOURSELF SHORT - you have got the skills and the experience for taking up still more onerous tasks and responsibilities.

 

He had not risen to his lofty position by SELLING HIMSELF SHORT or underestimating his own potential.

 

Mr. Gopal is an artist more than capable of scaling dizzying heights - he is simply and woefully SELLING HIMSELF SHORT.

 

I think they are SELLING THIS SHORT. It is actually an incredibly good deal!

 

Don’t SELL YOURSELF SHORT – your writing is really excellent!

 

We should not SELL OURSELVES SHORT. Our work here is important and we should put a proper value on it.

 

She is clearly a bright woman and yet she sticks with quiz shows only without going beyond it, say like other nail-baiting competitions. Obviously, she SELLS HERSELF SHORT!

 

You’re SELLING YOURSELF SHORT by not mentioning your years of experience (in the biodata or interview).

 

Don’t SELL YOURSELF SHORT – tell them about all your qualifications.

 

Don’t SELL THIS GUY SHORT – there’s more to him than just good looks.

 

 

HIT THE GROUND RUNNING:

 

Meaning:

 

If you HIT THE GROUND RUNNING, you start a new activity with a lot of energy and enthusiasm duly well prepared for the same, and do not waste any time – Seize an opportunity immediately when it comes your way and begin it with a bang and at full speed - to make immediate and rapid progress - to work or function vigorously and effectively from the very beginning - to immediately work hard and successfully at a new activity – to be ready to make a successful foray and inroads into a new activity

 

 

 

Example sentences:

 

The Principal said that he wanted his college’s students to HIT THE GROUND RUNNING after they graduated.

 

As soon as the front office gave its approval for the new department, we HIT THE GROUND RUNNING.

 

She studied the reports over the weekend, so she could HIT THE GROUND RUNNING when the meeting began!

 

They have worked hard and HIT THE GROUND RUNNING.

 

We were given excellent training; so we were able to HIT THE GRUND RUNNING as soon as we were put on the production floor.

 

Targets were relatively high for new employees; so everyone was expected to HIT THE GROUND RUNNING. There was no room for slackness!

 

The team HIT THE GROUND RUNNING with two goals in the first 15 minutes.

 

I wanted to HIT THE GROUND RUNNING in college, so I started on the reading list over the summer.

 

Even as a new lawyer in 1960, Mr. Ramgopal HIT THE GROUND RUNNING.

 

The Company HIT THE GROUND RUNNING ever since its establishment in 1970 and has not slowed since.

 

 

 

Proverbs:

 

பூ விற்றவனை பொன் விற்கப்பண்ணுவேன்.

I will enable him who sold flowers to sell gold.

 

தங்கம் தரையிலே தவிடு பானையிலே.

Gold scattered on the ground, bran in an earthen vessel.

 

நிலத்தில் எழுந்த பூண்டு நிலத்தில் மடிய வேண்டும்.

Plants decay on the ground from which they sprung.

 

 

(R.SAMPATH)

21/4/2023