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27 января 2024 09:25
📒 Many a true word is spoken in jest
📖Meaning
Something said as a joke may often contain wisdom and truth.
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25 января 2024 19:49
📒get away
📖Meaning
to leave a place
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I had the fish on the line, but just as I was getting it out of the water, it fell back in and got away.
💬 I wanted to join you for dinner, but I just couldn't get away. There was too much going on in the office.
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24 января 2024 19:11
💠 threads 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
clothes
❕For example
🔺Check out Terry's new threads. He looks really sharp in that outfit.
🔺Those threads Jack's wearing look pretty expensive.
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23 января 2024 20:21
📒nut out
📖Meaning
If you nut something out, you solve a problem or you calculate something.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We're having a meeting with the marketing department to nut out the best way to promote the new model.
💬 It's a tough problem, but we've got a better chance of nutting it out if we work on it together.
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22 января 2024 21:03
💠 Aussie 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
Australian, Australia
❕For example
🔺My mate Bruce says he's a typical Aussie because he likes beer, sports, mates, cars and girls, in that order.
🔺Have you ever seen Aussie Rules football? It's a bit like rugby, but much faster and more spectacular.
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21 января 2024 18:47
📒run away (2)
📖Meaning
If children or teenagers run away, they leave home without telling their parents or guardians.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 When he was a kid, Pedro got angry with his parents and ran away from home.
💬 Many young people run away because they're being sexually abused by a family member.
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20 января 2024 19:56
💠 jerk 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a stupid person
❕For example
🔺Ted was being a real jerk at the party. He was hitting on all the girls, even if their boyfriends were right there with them.
🔺He's usually a nice guy, but if he drinks too much alcohol he turns into a jerk.
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18 января 2024 07:20
📚quick on the trigger | quick on the draw
✍🏾Meaning
If you are quick on the trigger, or quick on the draw, you act quickly when solving problems or answering questions.
❗️For example
🔸Our smartest students are very quick on the trigger when they're doing class quizzes.
🔸Some people think the coach is too quick on the draw when it comes to pulling players off the court when they make a mistake.
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17 января 2024 08:46
📒 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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16 января 2024 07:16
📚just shy of
✍🏾Meaning
You can say something is just shy of an amount if it's just short of that amount.
❗️For example
🔸Luckily our boxer's weight is just shy of 60 kilos. If he was over 60 kilos, he couldn't fight.
🔸We've counted the bricks and there are just shy of a thousand.
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15 января 2024 11:11
📒 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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14 января 2024 10:01
📚run-of-the-mill
✍🏾Meaning
Something is run-of-the-mill if it is ordinary and nothing special.
❗️For example
🔸There wasn't much on TV so we just watched some run-of-the-mill old cowboy movie.
🔸I don't know why he won the competition. He wasn't terrible, but he wasn't anything special either; just a run-of-the-mill singer as far as I could see.
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13 января 2024 12:25
📒 Money is a good servant, but a bad master
📖Meaning
If you have money, it will serve you and work for you well. But if you owe money to other people, that money will control you in an unpleasant way.
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11 января 2024 19:16
📒come off (2)
📖Meaning
to result in the intended outcome
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Sarah's scheme to get rich quick by marrying a rich man didn't come off. After marrying a guy from Saudi Arabia, she found out he was actually very poor.
💬 Barry's plan to make millions by writing a popular novel didn't come off because he wasn't a very good writer.
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25 января 2024 08:30
📚the upper crust
✍🏾Meaning
If you are one of the upper crust, you are a member of society's highest class.
❗️For example
🔸If Laura was really part of the upper crust, she wouldn't need to borrow money all the time, would she?
🔸Marge does a great imitation of an upper-crust "society queen". It's really funny, and her upper-crust accent is perfect.
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24 января 2024 08:43
📒 We must learn to walk before we can run
📖Meaning
We have to be patient when learning. Babies crawl before they walk. And children walk before they run. We cannot do difficult tasks before we can do easy tasks.
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23 января 2024 07:58
📚a pat on the back
✍🏾Meaning
You've given someone a pat on the back if you've told them they've done something well, or done a good job.
❗️For example
🔸Don't you think Salim deserves a pat on the back for his report? Why don't you tell him it was excellent work?
🔸Our boss doesn't often praise us for our work, so if he gives you a pat on the back for something, you've really earned it.
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22 января 2024 08:48
📒 Never speak ill of the dead
📖Meaning
Show respect to people who have died by not saying anything bad about them. Since dead people can no longer hurt us, or defend themselves, it is better to forget their bad actions and remember only their good ones.
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21 января 2024 08:32
📚face to face
✍🏾Meaning
If people meet face to face, they meet in person in the real world.
❗️For example
🔸We became friends after meeting online in a chat room, but we've never actually met face to face.
🔸We always need to have a face-to-face interview with a job applicant before making a final decision.
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20 января 2024 10:47
📒 He that wills the end wills the means
📖Meaning
If you are determined to do something you will find the way to do it.
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18 января 2024 20:21
📒try out
📖Meaning
to test something to see what it's like, or to see if it works properly
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I saw these new headphones in a shop today and I tried them out. They sounded great, but they were really expensive.
💬 I tried out this new meditation technique this morning, and it's great. I've felt really good all day.
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17 января 2024 20:51
💠 fix (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to influence the result of a contest, a vote, or a race by illegal or unethical means
❕For example
🔺The result of the football game was fixed by a group of gamblers who bribed the referee to make decisions that favoured one team.
🔺The fixing of matches, or match-fixing, has been a problem in sports such as boxing and soccer.
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16 января 2024 19:35
📒run away (2)
📖Meaning
If children or teenagers run away, they leave home without telling their parents or guardians.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 When he was a kid, Pedro got angry with his parents and ran away from home.
💬 Many young people run away because they're being sexually abused by a family member.
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15 января 2024 19:48
💠 acid 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
the potent hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD
❕For example
🔺The first time Virginia took a tab of acid, she went a bit crazy and thought she could fly. She was in hospital for three months after jumping off a building.
🔺Acid is a very powerful drug, and it can be very dangerous.
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14 января 2024 17:10
📒read out
📖Meaning
if you read something out, you read it aloud so everyone can hear it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The prisoners listened as the warder read out their names and numbers.
💬 Mario was proud when his teacher asked him to read out his poem so everyone could hear it.
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13 января 2024 18:41
💠 dope (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a stupid person, a fool
❕For example
🔺How come those dopes who work in the U.S. Treasury didn't realise what was going on?
🔺Max says the problem with democracy is that there are too many dopes out there, and they'll only vote for someone they can relate to, meaning another dope.
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11 января 2024 08:24
📚rags to riches
✍🏾Meaning
If you go from rags to riches, you start out very poor and you become very rich.
❗️For example
🔸My grandfather went from rags to riches when his dishwashing liquid became very popular. He started out making it at home, but in less than a year he had his own factory.
🔸Most of these young guys in professional basketball came from poor neighbourhoods and they all have the same rags-to-riches story.
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