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📚give the green light


✍🏾Meaning
If you give something the green light, you give permission for it to be done, or allow it to happen.

❗️For example

🔸The government has given the green light to our tree-planting project, so we can go ahead and start organizing things.

🔸As soon as our CEO gives the new product the green light, we'll start planning production.

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💠 earworm 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a song that repeats annoyingly in one's head


❕For example

🔺I've got this damn earworm in my head and no matter how much I try I can't get the damn song to go away.

🔺The only way to get rid of an earworm is to hear another song and start thinking of that one instead.


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📒keep up (3)


📖Meaning
If somebody or something keeps you up, you cannot go to bed.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The noise from my neighbour's party kept me up most of the night.

💬 The noise from my neighbour's party kept me up most of the night.

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💠 thick (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

full-figured without appearing overweight


❕For example

🔺That chick is thick, dude! She has meat on her bones in all the right places; her thighs, breasts, hips, and her booty.

🔺Jamie says some girls who clearly have a weight problem try to kid themselves by claiming they are thick, but not fat.


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📒look after


📖Meaning
to make sure something or someone has everything they need and is healthy

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 When I'm too old to look after myself, my children will look after me, I hope.

💬 Can you look after my bag while I go to the toilet?

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💠 old bat 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

an unpleasant old woman


❕For example

🔺The old bat who lives downstairs called the cops when we were having a party.

🔺We used to think Mrs Jones was just another bad-tempered old bat, but she's actually a lovely lady when you get to know her.


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📒hold down


📖Meaning
to stop something from rising by pressing down on it or putting a heavy object on it

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The vet's assistant held down our dog while the vet gave her the injection.

💬 I held the board down with my foot while I hammered it in place.

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📚chickens come home to roost


✍🏾Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.

❗️For example

🔸Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.

🔸The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.

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📒 Keep your friends close and your enemies closer


📖Meaning

You'll be safer if you know more about your enemies than you know about your friends. Look after your enemies better than you look after your friends.

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📚mend your ways


✍🏾Meaning
If you mend your ways, you improve your behaviour and stop doing things that cause trouble.

❗️For example

🔸Terry had better mend his ways or Rosie will leave him forever.

🔸It took him a long time to mend his ways, but these days Jack is a good father and husband.

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📒 Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear


📖Meaning

1. Speaking about the Devil may invite him to come. 2. We often say "Talk of the devil!" (or "Speak of the devil!") when somebody that we have just been speaking about suddenly appears.

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📚verbal diarrhoea


✍🏾Meaning
If someone has verbal diarrhoea, they can't stop talking.

❗️For example

🔸Janice has a real bad case of verbal diarrhoea. It's like she's afraid of silence and has to keep talking to block it out.

🔸I don't know if you could say he's got verbal diarrhoea, but Alan sure does talk a lot.

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📒 The road to hell is paved with good intentions


📖Meaning

1) People who believe they are doing good can end up doing bad (the law of unintended consequences). 2) There is no value in simply planning to do good if you don't actually do it.

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📒stir up


📖Meaning
to cause trouble among people or to cause bad feelings to arise

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The company says environmentalists are stirring up trouble by telling people the factory will pollute their river.

💬 You'll stir a lot of bad feeling up if you say their son died of a drug overdose. They want people to think it was a heart attack.

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💠 fib 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a small, harmless lie (n.) | to tell a small, harmless lie (v.)


❕For example

🔺I can tell you're fibbing because you're trying not to smile!

🔺We told our youngest child a little fib about where our pet dog went when he died. She was too young to understand the truth.


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📒 They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind


📖Meaning

A warning that we must expect to suffer serious consequences as the result of our own bad actions. We get back what we give out.
Origin: The idea of cause and effect is expressed by several religions or philosophies. This particular proverb is an allusion to The Bible (Hosea 8:7): "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..."

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📚wash your hands of something


✍🏾Meaning
If you wash your hands of something that you were involved in, you decide to stop being involved in it after losing your interest or belief in it.

❗️For example

🔸She washed her hands of the whole project after she found out that people had been stealing donated money.

🔸Jim washed his hands of politics long ago after realising how corrupt most politicians were.

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📒 A good man is hard to find


📖Meaning

This saying talks about the difficulties for women in finding a suitable male partner.

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📚pick up the tab | pick up the bill


✍🏾Meaning
If you pick up the tab, or pick up the bill, you pay for yourself and your friends in a restaurant or a bar.

❗️For example

🔸When people go out to celebrate a birthday in Thailand, whoever's having the birthday picks up the tab.

🔸In general in Asia, the person with the highest status picks up the bill in a restaurant.

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📒 Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich


📖Meaning

God makes no distinction between people with money and people without money.

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💠 jock 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

an athlete, sportsman


❕For example

🔺Betty's new boyfriend is one of the jocks on the football team.

🔺In our high school, most of the guys are either jocks or geeks.


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📒get away with


📖Meaning
to do something illegal or immoral and not get caught or punished

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Janet got away with shoplifting clothes the first few times, but she soon got caught and now she's stuck with a police record for the rest of her life.

💬 Bobby nearly got away with the robbery, but he spent the money too quickly and local police who knew him got suspicious.

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💠 ecofreak 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a person with strong views on the importance of protecting the natural environment


❕For example

🔺Before becoming Minister for the Environment, Peter was a rock star and an ecofreak.

🔺All these ecofreaks came and lay down in front of the bulldozers to stop them from clearing the forest.


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📒yearn for


📖Meaning
to want something very much

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Even though I left England a long time ago, I still yearn for the beauty of the English countryside.

💬 Paula is still getting over the breakup with her boyfriend. She's still yearning for the sound of his voice and the smell of his hair.

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💠 OD 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

to take an overdose of a drug


❕For example

🔺If someone OD's, call an ambulance immediately. After calling, give the person mouth-to-mouth resuscitation if they've stopped breathing.

🔺It's very easy to OD and die from taking a narcotic drug like heroin. This is because narcotics are such powerful drugs that taking a dose which is just a little bit stronger than usual can kill a person.


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📚wide of the mark


✍🏾Meaning
If something is wide of the mark, it isn't true or accurate, or it misses the target.

❗️For example

🔸The manager expected sales to double this year, but his prediction was wide of the mark. They only increased by ten per cent.

🔸Ronaldo's first shot was wide of the mark, but his second one went right into the back of the net for a goal.

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📒 Share and share alike


📖Meaning

Give everyone an equal portion.

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