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16 октября 2024 21:23
📚blow your own horn | blow your own trumpet
✍🏾Meaning
If you blow your own horn, or blow your own trumpet, you proudly boast about your own talents and successes.
❗️For example
🔸I hate the way Barry always blows his own horn, and I get sick of hearing about all the amazing things he's done.
🔸Lorraine says that if you want to be successful in the fashion business, you really have to blow your own trumpet.
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15 октября 2024 21:29
📒pass on
📖Meaning
If you pass something on, you give it to another person after receiving it yourself.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 You should wear a mask over your mouth so that you don't pass on the disease.
💬 After taking your piece of cake, pass the plate on to the next person.
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14 октября 2024 20:43
📚at sea | all at sea
✍🏾Meaning
If you're at sea, or all at sea, you're confused about something and not sure what to do.
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🔸I'm all at sea with our new spreadsheet software. I just can't understand it.
🔸For the first few days in her new job, Gail felt totally at sea. She didn't know what to do or who to ask for help.
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13 октября 2024 21:15
📒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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12 октября 2024 22:18
📚come a cropper
✍🏾Meaning
If you come a cropper, you fall over, or you make a mistake which has serious consequences for you.
❗️For example
🔸The prime minister came a cropper while coming down the steps and hurt his backside.
🔸A radio announcer really came a cropper when he made a racist remark. He lost his job and now he can't get another one.
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09 октября 2024 21:04
📒Where there's a will there's a way
📖Meaning
If we have the determination to do something, we can always find the path or method to do it.
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08 октября 2024 21:54
💠 intro 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
introduction
❕For example
🔺When you read the book, don't skip the intro. It gives a lot of useful background information.
🔺 What did you think of the intro to the song? Do you think it went on too long, or was it just about right?
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07 октября 2024 21:08
📒Death pays all debts
📖Meaning
Dying cancels everything, including anything that we owe to other people.
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06 октября 2024 21:27
💠 yob | yobbo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an aggressive, impolite, crude person
❕For example
🔺Be careful if you go to a pub on Friday or Saturday night. The yobs will be out and lots of them will be looking for a fight.
🔺 Lots of yobbos travel to places like Spain and Greece and get drunk, behave badly, and damage the image of Britain and the British.
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05 октября 2024 21:16
📒Waste not, want not
📖Meaning
If we do not waste things we will not be short of things. If we use our resources carefully, we shall never be in need.
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02 октября 2024 21:12
📒get away with
📖Meaning
to do something illegal or immoral and not get caught or punished
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💬 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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01 октября 2024 20:26
📚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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17 октября 2024 12:47
📒Barking dogs seldom bite
📖Meaning
Don't be afraid of dogs that bark or people that threaten you (say they will do something bad to you) - in both cases they rarely take action.
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16 октября 2024 11:58
💠 veejay | VJ 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a presenter of music videos, usually on television
❕For example
🔺My niece has just got a job as a veejay on MTV.
🔺People who work as VJ's don't have to know much about music, but they have to look good on TV and know the latest teenage slang.
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15 октября 2024 10:10
📒Beware of a silent man and still water
📖Meaning
A large expanse of water that is still and does not move is often deep and dangerous. We should be careful of it. In the same way, we should be careful with a person who does not talk much.
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14 октября 2024 10:50
💠 pimp (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a manager of prostitutes
❕For example
🔺Sammy reckons a pimp's job is to make sure his girls are safe when they're working.
🔺Most of the pimps you see in movies are black guys with colourful clothes and lots of jewellery. Are pimps really like that?
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13 октября 2024 12:45
📒Least said soonest mended
📖Meaning
When we do or say something bad to someone, a long apology and discussion does not help. In such a case, the less we say the better.
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12 октября 2024 11:06
💠 grinding 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
dancing in a sexually arousing way
❕For example
🔺When Mario and Carla starting grinding on the dance floor, the others stood back and cheered them on.
🔺Pete says the thing that drives him totally wild is when a girl pulls him close and starts grinding on him.
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10 октября 2024 10:04
📒sign in
📖Meaning
to sign a register when you visit a place, or to log in when you visit a website
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Don't forget to sign in when you get to the office in the morning.
💬 If you want to upload a picture to your EnglishClub page, you'll have to sign in first.
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09 октября 2024 12:49
📚let the cat out of the bag
✍🏾Meaning
If you let the cat out of the bag, you let someone know a secret.
❗️For example
🔸We'd planned a surprise party for Donna, but some guy she works with let the cat out of the bag, so now she knows.
🔸Don't forget that this is a secret, so whatever you do, don't let the cat out of the bag.
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08 октября 2024 12:21
📒dig up
📖Meaning
If you dig up something, you get it from under the ground by digging.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The police dug up the murder victim's body and took it away for examination.
💬 My dog loves digging up bones that I bury in the garden for him.
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07 октября 2024 13:40
📚time and time again
✍🏾Meaning
If you've done something time and time again, you've done it many times, or you've done it repeatedly.
❗️For example
🔸I've told Terry time and time again not to call me before ten in the morning, but he still does it!
🔸We love that restaurant. We've been there time and time again and we still like going there.
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06 октября 2024 10:59
📒round down
📖Meaning
If you round a number or an amount down to a certain level such as a whole number or the nearest dollar, you bring it down to that level.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Can we round the amounts down to the nearest dollar, so that $16.25, for example, is changed to $16.00?
💬 Are you sure she remembered to round down all the numbers?
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05 октября 2024 11:16
📚vice versa
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "vice versa" when what you have just said is also true in the opposite, or reverse, order.
❗️For example
🔸He doesn't believe anything she says, and vice versa. They really don't trust each other.
🔸During the cold war, the Americans tried to spy on the Russians, and vice versa.
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03 октября 2024 08:55
💠 honky 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a derogatory term in black American slang for a white person
❕For example
🔺When we were visiting the Apollo Theater in Harlem in New York, a woman passing us on the street said, "What are you honkies doin' round here?"
🔺I have a lot of black American friends, and they all say they hate racist language, including anti-white words like "honky".
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02 октября 2024 11:20
📒Rome wasn't built in a day
📖Meaning
All things take time to create. And great things like the city of Rome take a very long time. So we shouldn't expect to accomplish something or achieve success immediately.
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01 октября 2024 13:18
💠 mosh pit 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an area in front of the stage at a rock concert where people dance energetically, or "mosh"
❕For example
🔺The best concert I've ever been to was a Nirvana gig in the early nineties when Kurt Cobain jumped into the mosh pit.
🔺 Keep an eye on the kids in the mosh pit in case any of them faints or gets hurt.
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