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Humans need around 30 vitamins and minerals to keep our bodies functionin
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Daylight robbery
📚a situation in which you are charged a lot too much for something
✍دزدی در روز روشن. ( وقتی چیزی خیلی گرون باشه )
• £4 for an orange juice? That's just daylight robbery!
• I need to find another mechanic because this bill is just daylight robbery!
• I can't believe how much he charged for a simple repair. They clipped me for an extra $300 when they fixed my laptop because they knew that I had no choice but to pay up. It's daylight robbery, I tell you!
• You can't charge customers $500 for that beat-up dresser—that would be daylight robbery
The ropes
📚all the things someone needs to know to do a job or deal with a system:
✍راه و چاه
1. Ruth will teach you what to do, and it shouldn't take you too long to learn the ropes.
2. It can take quite a while for a new lawyer to learn the ropes in a big legal firm.
3. Anyone who's been doing the job for a few months should know the ropes by now.
4. We need someone to teach the new staff. Someone who knows the ropes and is good at explaining things.
5. Miss McGinley will show you the ropes and answer any questions.
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Willy-nilly
📚If something happens willy-nilly, it happens whether the people who are involved want it to happen or not
1. Both sides were drawn, willy-nilly, into the conflict.
2. I'm afraid you're going to be assigned to a classroom willy-nilly.
📚without any order
1. She threw her clothes willy-nilly into a drawer.
2. Companies were accused of raising prices willy-nilly.
3. They decided willy-nilly to change the rules.
4. You can't just choose a college willy-nilly—you have to do some research.
5. It appears he listed the items willy-nilly, with no regard to how they were loaded.
6. The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.
The real McCoy
📚the original or best example of something:
1. The caviar was the real McCoy too - not the stuff we buy in the supermarket at home.
▪️این خاویار اصل جنسه ( بدلی نیست) . نه از اون هایی که تو سوپرمارکت میخریم
2. A: "The traveling salesman said this diamond was the real McCoy!" B: "And you believed him?
▪️فروشنده جهانگرد گفت که این الماس اصل بود . تو هم باور کردی ؟
3. In the movie, the two thieves try to discover whether the banknotes are fakes or the real McCoy.
▪️تو فیلم ، دو تا سارق تلاش میکنند که بفهمند که ایا این اسکناس ها اصل هستند یا تقلبی
4. "Boy, that superstar lawyer they brought in is the real McCoy. She's the one who took down Big Oil in court!
▪️اون وکیلی کله گنده ای که انها اورده بودن اصله کیله . اون کسی هست که کمپانی بیگ اویل را تو دادگاه شکست داد
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Crowning achievement
📚The most important, significant, or excellent accomplishment or moment of one's career or life.
✍بزرگترین دستاورد
👑The author's oeuvre spans five novels, four plays, and six books of poetry, but this, her final novel, is by far her crowning achievement.
👑Sir Alexander Fleming will always be remembered for his crowning achievement—the discovery of penicillin.
👑Building the team into a winner was the crowning achievement of Rory's coaching career.
👑His ‘Beethoven’ sculpture is seen as the crowning achievement of his career.
On the spur of the moment
📚if you do something on the spur of the moment, you do it suddenly, without planning it
1. It was something I bought on the spur of the moment, and I've regretted it ever since.
2. We hadn't planned to get married - it was a spur-of-the-moment thing.
3. You've got to stop making decisions about your business on the spur of the moment like this, or you'll end up running it into the ground!
4. It's totally out my character to take a trip on the spur of the moment, but I just needed to get out of the city for a while..
5. On the spur of the moment, she booked a holiday in Thailand.
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Vitamin Deficiency: What Happens If You Don't Get Enough Vitamins?
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Rip sb off
📚to cheat sb by charging them too much for something
✍ کلاه گزاشتن سر مردم و پول انها را چاپیدن
1. The guy said it was a great deal for such a rare album, but I'm starting to think he ripped me off
2. The CEO was convicted for ripping off nearly a quarter of a million customers over the course of a decade
3. Taxi drivers love foreigners because they know they can rip them off
4. There's always that feeling when you're in an expensive restaurant that you're being ripped off
5. I can't believe how the car dealerships try to rip off their customers
6. He adds 50 grand to the price of any property with a sniff of a Thames view. Yes, it's a rip-off
7. Twenty dollars for a pizza is a rip-off whichever way you look at it.
8. Ten dollars for a cup of coffee? That's a total rip-off! It's about three dollars anywhere else
9. I can't believe I spent so much on this blender, and it's already broken. What a rip-off!
10. I heard on the news that the charity is a rip-off, so don't send them any money.
if someone deals with a problem head-on, they do not try to avoid it, but deal with it in a direct and determined way
1. I'm nervous about having to make a presentation to the entire board, but it is a challenge I will face head-on.
2. Instead of facing it head-on, he decided to delay the project until someone else can manage it.
3. I know I screwed up, and I know the best thing to do is face the consequences head-on.
4. She decided to confront/meet the challenge head-on..
5. Inequality alleviation is a challenge we must tackle head-on.
6. PhD candidate confronts schizophrenia and mental health head on
7. Cyber workforce efforts need to address diversity ‘head on,’ ex-White House official says
✍با چالشی یا مسئله ای به صورت مستقیم رو در رو سرشاخ شدن
Hands on
✍عملی
📚doing something yourself rather than just talking about it or telling other people to do it:
1. A chance to get some hands-on experience of the job
2. He has a very hands-on approach to management.
3. New employees are given hours of hands-on training.
4. They need hands-on experience with the machinery.
5. The technical college offers hands-on training for students who want to learn the building trades.
6. Learn from the pros at our Hands-On Filmmaking Workshop in Saranac Lake!
7. You can read all the books in the world about computer programming, but without any hands-on experience, you'll never fully understand it.
8. My explanation will make more sense once you get some hands-on experience using this machine at the gym.
Botch
Verb
📚to do something badly, because you have been careless or because you do not have the skill to do it properly:
1. The store botched the order–I received only half the books I paid for.
2. Police officers had botched the entire investigation.
3. We botched (up) our first attempt at wallpapering the bathroom
Noun
📚a piece of work, a job etc that has been badly or carelessly done:
1. I’ve just made an awful botch of my translation.
2. The whole thing was a botch job.
3. The plumbers made a botch of the pipes. [=the plumbers did a poor job with the pipes]
4. The concert was very badly organized. In fact, the whole thing was a real botch-up.
5. The company made a series of botches before it went bankrupt.
Get a/(one's) foot in the door
📚To have a chance to do something that could lead to further opportunities. The phrase is often used to refer to employment.
🦶🚪An internship might not sound very interesting, but it's a great way to get your foot in the door at this company.
🦶🚪I knew that I could prove myself to be a valuable asset to the CEO, if only I could get my foot in the door.
🦶🚪Good luck getting a foot in the door in Hollywood
🦶🚪Making contacts can help you get a foot in the door when it comes to getting a job.
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Fall off the back of a lorry
📚Of goods or merchandise, to be acquired by illegal or dubious means; to come into (someone's) possession without being paid for. Primarily heard in UK.
🚛Danny says he has several laptops and smartphones he wants to sell for cheap—sounds like they fell off the back of a lorry to me.
🚛A: "Jake's been peddling a bunch of flat screens for a great price." A: "They probably fell off the back of a lorry then. I wouldn't go for them, if I were you."
🚛These prices seem a little too good to be true. You sure this stuff didn't fall off the back of a lorry?
🚛He was trying to sell me a new laptop which I suspect fell off the back of a lorry.
Synonym
Ill-gotten
📚dishonestly obtained
• He deposited his ill-gotten gains in foreign bank accounts.
• They duped their senile uncle into leaving them a fortune and are now enjoying their ill-gotten gains.
• His ill-gotten millions are all safely stashed away in a Swiss bank
Monolingual
📚able to speak and understand only one language
1. He regrets being monolingual and wishes he were bilingual.
2. Monolingual children are able to learn a second language quickly if given the chance.
Bilingual
📚speaking two languages fluently.
1. They are raising bilingual children.
2. He is bilingual in Mandarin and English.
3. She works as a bilingual secretary for an insurance company.
Trilingual
📚able to speak three languages
1. He is trilingual in English, Spanish and Danish
Multilingual
📚using, speaking, or written in several different languages
1. He is receiving language lessons at the club so he can understand his multi-lingual team-mates.
Polyglot
📚someone who can speak several languages
1. My tutor's something of a polyglot - she speaks seven languages.
A Mecca for someone/something
📚The very best place to see, obtain, or enjoy something; the most important place relating to something.
1. This town is Mecca for barbecue—chefs here treat it like a true art form.
2. Tokyo, specifically the area known as Akihabara, is considered by many to be the Mecca for anime, video games, and all sorts of other wonderfully geeky things.
3. This place has long been considered Mecca for fans of horror movies.
4. Los Angeles is something of a Mecca for aspiring actors.
5. The valley is a mecca for wine lovers.
6. The town has become a mecca for tourists.
7. His Indiana bookstore became a mecca for writers and artists.
8. The scheme would transform the park into a tourist mecca.
Fall back
Fall back on
📚If an army falls back, it moves away from an enemy army in order to avoid fighting them
1. The infantry fell back in disarray.
2. The crowd fell back when the police arrived.
3. The guerrillas fell back across the border after a brief battle with the army.
4. The troops were ordered to fall back.
📚use (something) for help or protection when you are in a bad situation
1. When her health insurance was canceled she had nothing to fall back on.
2. They had to fall back on their emergency supplies when the snow storm blocked the road to town.
3. Many families had lost their savings during the war and had nothing to fall back on.
4. We'll have to fall back on our original plan if this one doesn't work out.
5. Their first choice for the job is Amanda Martin, with Paul Davies as the fallback.
Ross: According to Chandler, what phenomenon scares the bejesus out of him?😨🙀
Monica: Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance!
Ross: That is correct.
Joey: The Irish gig guy?!
Chandler: His legs flail about as if independent of his body!
📚to frighten, annoy, bore, etc. someone very much
1. I was in the middle of a typhoon in 2012 and it scared the bejesus out of me.
2. Cinema audiences seemingly never tire of having the bejesus scared out of them.
3. She always irritated the bejesus out of me.
4. People are angry because the Government is taxing the bejaysus out of them.
5. Don't sneak up on me like that—you scared the bejesus out of me!
6. The sound of the fire alarm scared the bejesus out of us this morning.
"It's like, in life, there are so many peeps just waiting for u to fail, for ur door to swing open so they can all go "hurray"!! so just like, keep on hustlin' ok?"
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