"Houston, we have a problem" is a popular but erroneous (=incorrect) quote from the radio communications between the Apollo 13 astronauts and the NASA Mission Control Center ("Houston") during the Apollo 13 spaceflight, as the astronauts communicated their discovery of the explosion that crippled (=corrupted) their spacecraft. The erroneous wording was popularized by the 1995 film Apollo 13, a dramatization of the Apollo 13 mission, in which actor Tom Hanks, portraying Mission Commander Jim Lovell, uses that wording, which became one of the film's taglines (=slogans).

la-la land:
1. Los Angeles, California (often abbreviated L.A.). This expression pokes fun at the alleged eccentricities of the city's inhabitants. For example, What do you expect? Frederick has lived in la-la land for ten years and it has rubbed off on him . [Slang; c. 1980]
2. A state of being out of touch with reality, as in "I don't know what's going on with Amy - she seems to be in la-la land'. [Slang; c. 1980]

root for someone or something = to cheer and encourage someone or something

...let's root for the admin to cope with all the deadlines and post new cheerful idioms :)

you don't get me = you don't understand me
what is the matter with you = is there something wrong with you?

We are back with new materials, comrades!

Finally, we are back in the saddle with exuberant vocabulary.

OK, now it's a right time to share the new Game of Thrones trailer with you.

The trailer itself is here: https://goo.gl/a8VZGe

Here are the official subtitles:
0:01 ♪ (PIANO PLAYING) ♪
0:04 PETYR BAELISH: Don't fight in the north,
0:06 or the south.
0:09 Fight every battle everywhere.
0:13 Always...
0:16 in your mind.
0:17♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
0:26♪ (WOMAN VOCALIZING) ♪
0:43 JON SNOW: For centuries, our families fought together
0:47 against their common enemy.
0:50 Despite their differences. Together.
0:54 We need to do the same if we're gonna survive.
0:58 'Cause the enemy is real.
1:00♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
1:05JON SNOW: It's always been real.
1:10(MEN SHOUTING)
1:15(DRAGON GROWLING)
1:24♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES, STOPS) ♪
1:28(WIND WHISTLING)
1:30 SANSA STARK: When the snows fall
1:33 and the white winds blow,
1:37 the lone wolf dies,
1:39 but the pack survives.
1:42♪ (PIANO PLAYS) ♪

One post a day keeps laziness away!
Everything will fall right into place starting this Monday. Good luck :)

(yep, the idiom refers to the fact that the weather is usually very hot in July)

...sharing the most useful idioms with you!
You never know what you will have to do in the future. Maybe it will be corn growing.

Well, Britain is not alone.

...Oh yes, I will summer and winter him during this probationary period, to determine if we should hire him full-time.

*probation = a process or period in which a person's fitness, as for work or membership in a social group, is tested

vicious circle = a negative situation that is constantly maintained or worsened, rather than resolved.
The fatter I get, the unhappier I am, so I eat to cheer myself up, which makes me fatter yet - it's a vicious circle .

No comments.

"I know it's September, but don't get out your winter clothes just yet — this area often has an Indian summer. I hate the cold weather, so I'm hoping for an Indian summer."

That's the new topic for the week.

"You should see Bob's living room. It's as big as all outdoors! The new movie theater is as big as all outdoors.

That's just into the topic.
to stab - to wound with a pointed weapon