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10 июня 2023 17:30
📒stand out
📖Meaning
If somebody stands out, they are easy to see because there is something unusual about the way they look or the way they behave.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 One of my sons says he likes people to notice him, and his green hair certainly makes him stand out in a crowd.
💬Most packaging is designed to stand out on the shelf and be easy to notice in a shop.
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09 июня 2023 17:30
💠 nick (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to steal something
❕For example
🔺I left my bike in front of the bank while I went inside to pay some bills. When I came back out it was gone. Some bastard had nicked it!
🔺Did you ever nick money from your mum's purse when you were a kid?
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08 июня 2023 17:37
📒put forward (1)
📖Meaning
to offer an idea, an opinion, a suggestion, etc. for other people to consider
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 He put forward an interesting argument, but no-one was really convinced by it.
💬 If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to put them forward and they'll be given our full consideration.
💬 Many of the suggestions that have been put forward are excellent.
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08 июня 2023 11:01
📚hold the fort
✍🏾Meaning
If you hold the fort, you look after a place or a business while the person who is normally in charge is away.
❗️For example
🔸Can you hold the fort while I run down to the bank?
🔸Your job will be to serve customers, and occasionally hold the fort if I have to go out.
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06 июня 2023 17:30
📒 There's no such thing as a free lunch
📖Meaning
We cannot get something for nothing. We must pay for everything. Nothing in life is free.
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05 июня 2023 17:30
📚a bad hair day
✍🏾Meaning
If you're having a bad hair day, everything seems to be going wrong for you.
❗️For example
🔸Poor Sue's in a terrible mood. I think she's having a bad hair day.
🔸I knew it was going to be a bad hair day when my car wouldn't start.
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04 июня 2023 18:00
📒 Tell me who you go with and I'll tell you who you are
📖Meaning
This proverb suggests that like minds stick together. If I know who your friends are, I know what your character is.
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03 июня 2023 18:07
📚a roller coaster | a roller-coaster ride
✍🏾Meaning
You can say an experience is a roller coaster, or a roller-coaster ride, if it involves many emotional highs and lows, or really good times alternating with really difficult times.
❗️For example
🔸The movie follows a young guy's emotional roller-coaster ride as he tries to come to terms with being gay in a small town in Australia.
🔸Eric writes about the roller coaster of rock and roll, with the highs of success and fame followed by the lows of drug addiction and depression.
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02 июня 2023 17:30
📒 The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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01 июня 2023 17:30
📒knock down (1)
📖Meaning
If something like a building or a wall is knocked down, it is destroyed on purpose.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The old hotel was knocked down so that a new one could be built.
💬If we knocked the tool shed down, we could put a vegetable garden there instead.
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31 мая 2023 17:31
💠 funk 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
(in phrase be in a funk) an unhappy, depressed mood
❕For example
🔺He's been in a real funk since his girlfriend left him.
🔺Everyone in the office has been in a funk since we heard that our company might be going bankrupt.
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30 мая 2023 17:30
📒turn into
📖Meaning
to change from one thing into another
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Isn't it incredible how caterpillars turn into butterflies, and tadpoles turn into frogs? Nature really is amazing!
💬 This guy is a great businessman. He turned a small company into a huge global corporation.
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29 мая 2023 17:30
💠 tight-ass 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
1) sby who spends as little money as possible, a miser
2) sby who's repressed and very strict about following society's rules
❕For example
🔺Our boss is a real tight-ass; we never get a Christmas bonus.
🔺Don't be such a tight-ass, Rob. Let yourself have some fun for a change.
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28 мая 2023 17:30
📒pull in
📖Meaning
If a train, a truck or a car pulls in, it arrives somewhere.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The train you want will be pulling in on platform 9.
💬 A truck pulled in to the yard and the driver jumped out.
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27 мая 2023 17:30
💠 ratty (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
easily annoyed or upset, irritable
❕For example
🔺Laura got drunk last night, and now she's got a hangover and she feels a bit ratty.
🔺I had a really bad day at work today, so sorry if I seem a little ratty tonight.
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10 июня 2023 08:07
📚hard to come by
✍🏾Meaning
If something is hard to come by, it is difficult to find.
❗️For example
🔸A good cheap hotel is hard to come by in London these days.
🔸Good jobs in the airline industry have been hard to come by recently.
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09 июня 2023 05:31
📒 Revenge is a dish best served cold
📖Meaning
This saying suggests that if someone does something bad to us, it is better to pay them back later in time, not immediately. Vengeance may be more satisfying if it is not inflicted immediately.
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08 июня 2023 11:10
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07 июня 2023 17:30
💠 beat it 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
go away
❕For example
🔺Some kids were smoking in the carpark, but when one of them saw a teacher coming they grabbed their stuff and beat it.
🔺When Peter came back from the bathroom, some guy was talking to Leanne. Peter said, "Beat it, pal! She's with me."
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06 июня 2023 05:30
📒model on
📖Meaning
to use something or someone as an example to copy when making something or doing something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The Indian legal system was modelled on the British system.
💬 Many young singers and dancers still model themselves on Michael Jackson.
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05 июня 2023 05:31
💠 lardass 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an overweight person, esp. one with large buttocks
❕For example
🔺Madge has become such a lardass since she stopped exercising and started eating too much.
🔺Bill and Jill get on really well. They're both lardasses who love watching TV all day and eating snacks non-stop.
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04 июня 2023 07:36
📒dying for
📖Meaning
If you're dying for something, you really feel like it or you want it very much.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I'm dying for a cup of tea. Let's have a break and I'll make one.
💬 After working non-stop for a month, Charles said he was dying for a day off so he could stay home and do nothing.
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03 июня 2023 05:31
💠 turps 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
alcohol, alcoholic drinks
❕For example
🔺My mate Barry was on the turps for years before he started going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
🔺When I saw Bruce, I said "Geez mate, you don't look too hot. Get stuck into the turps last night, did ya?"
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01 июня 2023 05:31
📚dirt cheap
✍🏾Meaning
You can say something is dirt cheap if it costs very little money.
❗️For example
🔸Be careful when you buy dirt cheap clothes. They could shrink easily or the colours could run when you wash them.
🔸Kevin is very tight with his money. If he has to buy someone a present, it's always something dirt cheap.
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31 мая 2023 05:30
📒 If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
📖Meaning
If you cannot win against someone or something, it may be easier or better to join forces with them.
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30 мая 2023 09:26
📚friends in high places
✍🏾Meaning
If you have friends in high places, you know people in powerful positions in business or government.
❗️For example
🔸You'll need friends in high places if you want to get to the top.
🔸Martin mightn't be the most brilliant man, but he'll do well because he's got plenty of friends in high places.
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29 мая 2023 05:30
📒 Ignorance of the law is no excuse
📖Meaning
It is no defence to say that we didn't know that something we did was illegal.
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28 мая 2023 08:58
📚a nest egg
✍🏾Meaning
If you have a nest egg, you have money put away for the future.
❗️For example
🔸When Indira inherited some money from her grandpa, she didn't spend it. She decided it was time she had a nest egg so she put it into an investment fund.
🔸Poor old Bill. He married a girl while he was in some foreign country and she got her hands on his nest egg, and now he's back here - with nothing.
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27 мая 2023 05:30
📒 Better safe than sorry
📖Meaning
We should be careful in a dangerous situation. It is better to stay safe than to have an accident (and be sorry about it). The full "grammatical" sentence would be: "It is better to be safe than to be sorry."
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