A: What do you think of global warming?
B: I don’t know.
A: Penny for your thoughts?
B: Well, if you want to know, I feel like people aren’t doing enough to stop it!
Noticing his friend was sad, Joe asked, “A penny for your thoughts?”
A: What do you think about Lisa? Penny for your thoughts?
B: People don’t like Lisa very much because she is always giving her opinion, even if people aren’t asking for it.
I made this mind map because students often confuse these collocations. In this way, I hope it will be easier for you to remember the most common verbs you can use with this word.
These are the most common collocations with ‘journey’ + adjective or adjective + ‘journey’:
You can download this mind map (imx file) on Biggerplate.
Example sentences from the web with some of these collocations:
The trainjourney, which I’ve taken from Pyongyang to the border, takes about five hours.
In the evening, five days after leaving Irkutsk, the train arrived in the Russian-administered city of Harbin. Here my grandfather decided to end his longrailwayjourney.
Rebecca was exhausted, jet-lagged, hot, still shaking from the hour-long bumpercarjourney from the airport.
The Yellow River’s epicjourneyacross northern China is a prism through which to see the country’s unfolding water crisis.
I traded in my luxury car and briefcase for a pair of walking shoes and a backpack and started a cross-countryjourney from Times Square.
It was the worst possible scenario on the best of all trips: a sentimentaljourney into the finest elk country in the West.
I chose not to call him to wish him a safejourney.
In a long, hazardousjourney west, G. reached Portugal in mid-1941, and later went to London.
Achieving a representative form of government has been a long and tortuousjourney, and the search for equity and justice has been an ongoing attempt to find or fashion a world that recognizes and respects all of those who live in it.
No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.
This position corresponds to the American strategy to accelerate unconditional liberalization of the world market.
After the disaster, there was so much unconditional love around people, they were ready to sacrifice their own lives for others, for strangers.
Unconditionally – Kate Perry
Oh no, did I get too close oh? Oh, did I almost see what’s really on the inside? All your insecurities All the dirty laundry Never made me blink one time
Unconditional, unconditionally I will love you unconditionally There is no fear now Let go and just be free I will love you unconditionally
Come just as you are to me Don’t need apologies Know that you are all worthy I’ll take your bad days with your good Walk through this storm I would I’d do it all because I love you, I love you
Unconditional, unconditionally I will love you unconditionally There is no fear now Let go and just be free I will love you unconditionally
So open up your heart and just let it begin Open up your heart, and just let it begin Open up your heart, and just let it begin Open up your heart Acceptance is the key to be To be truly free Will you do the same for me?
Unconditional, unconditionally I will love you unconditionally And there is no fear now Let go and just be free ‘Cause I will love you unconditionally (oh yeah)
I will love you I will love you I will love you unconditionally
Listen, I’m in a little bit of a pickle right now. Could you come to my place and pick me up?
He was in a bind, a bit of a pickle, sort of distressed.
I noticed that you were in a bit of a pickle yesterday. I’m sorry, but I was in a hurry and I couldn’t help you. Did you manage to finish your essay in time?
Words and expressions from the example sentences you may not know:
TO PICK UP SOMEONE =>
IN A BIND => Like ‘in a pickle’, it means ‘in a difficult situation’; ‘in trouble’.