Comments on: At the mercy of https://plainenglish.com/expressions/at-the-mercy-of/ Upgrade your English Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:15:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/at-the-mercy-of/#comment-960 Sun, 16 May 2021 01:20:17 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=10178#comment-960 In reply to Luiz.

haha I love it – that’s a perfect example. The phrase in English is “sense of direction.”

Interestingly – and I didn’t realize this until your example – we don’t usually use pronouns with “at the mercy of” … the way we say it is, “I’m at her mercy” or “I’m at his mercy.” You would say, “I’m at the mercy of my wife” or “I’m at her mercy.”

]]> By: Luiz https://plainenglish.com/expressions/at-the-mercy-of/#comment-959 Sat, 15 May 2021 15:04:20 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=10178#comment-959 When I travel as a tourist with my wife, because I have a very bad sense of location, or maybe. no sense at all, I’m at. the mercy of her.

]]> By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/at-the-mercy-of/#comment-957 Sat, 15 May 2021 13:48:41 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=10178#comment-957 In reply to EVERSON ZIN.

Exactly … “During the flight, we are at the mercy of the pilot’s decisions.” You can also say, “at the mercy of the pilot.” We are under his (or less commonly her) control!

]]> By: EVERSON ZIN https://plainenglish.com/expressions/at-the-mercy-of/#comment-955 Fri, 14 May 2021 09:58:04 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=10178#comment-955 During the my vacantions, i use the airplane to move more faster, but during the fly we at the mercy of the pilots decisons.

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