The Meaning and Power of Music_ 2 (idioms and expressions)
The Meaning and Power of Music_ 2 (idioms and expressions)
Music is woven into the fabric of society and culture
Woven is Participle I from weave
- to make cloth by repeatedly crossing a single thread through two sets of long threads on a loom (= special frame):
This type of wool is woven into fabric which will make jackets. (Cambridge Dictionary)
- be woven into the fabric of means that it has become something very common which a lot of people use everyday.
Traditional Thai designs are woven into silk fabric on the loom rather than stamped onto already woven fabric
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- Brown noser (brown-noser)
someone who tries too hard to please someone, especially someone in a position of authority, in a way that other people find unpleasant (Cambridge Dictionary)
- Mr. Sullivan. - Yeah. - What kind of music do you like to listen to? - Um - Don't be afraid. - Rock'n'roll. - What about you? - Rock'n'roll. - You? - Classical. - Brown-noser.
Different dictionaries give different definitions. But the key things are that it is disapproving and informal, though not vulgar (it is very important to consider while translating the idiom!).
Mostly the idiom is referred to employees and school /college students who are too nice to their bosses or teachers.
To learn more about the meaning and origin of the idiom you can here.
- ... so I face the final curtain
1) the end of a performance in a theatre
2) the end of something, especially life
- without exemption
Cambridge Dictionary
exemption - special permission not to do or pay something:
Candidates with a qualification in chemistry have exemption from this course.
Organizations may qualify for exemption from income tax if they operate exclusively as charities.

- to eat (chew) smth up and spit it out
- to stand tall
- have one's share of (something)
- At first ... But then ...
We use at first to talk about the beginning of a situation, when we are making a contrast with what happens / happened later
Usage: First, firstly or at first
- to crumble