Thursday, February 28, 2013

New Idiom "at one's earliest convenience"

Whenever I use "as soon as possible/you can", I somehow feel as if I force a counterpart to do something urgently.

For example, I write on an email, "Could you give me a reply asap?"
Then I feel I would say, "Reply already! Hurry up!"

Although it's just my own feeling, I've been wondering if there is more soft and polite way. Then I found "at one's earliest convenience."

I'm not sure how the difference is between them for native speakers, but I'm quite satisfied with finding this idiom. (^o^)

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