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18 февраля 2024 10:55
📚the upper hand
✍🏾Meaning
If you have the upper hand, you have the advantage or you're in the stronger position in a contest or a conflict.
❗️For example
🔸With one race to go, the Ferrari team has the upper hand. If they get one of the top three places in the last race, they'll win this year's title.
🔸For many years Yahoo was the top search engine, but for the last few years Google has had the upper hand.
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17 февраля 2024 08:30
📒 Opportunity seldom knocks twice
📖Meaning
Take any opportunity or chance when it comes - it may not come again.
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15 февраля 2024 20:33
📒break down (1)
📖Meaning
If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working because of a mechanical problem.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Our bus broke down so we had to get out and wait for another one to come.
💬 Production has stopped because one of the machines at our factory has broken down.
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14 февраля 2024 20:24
💠 bottom 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a man who takes the passive role in gay or homosexual sex
❕For example
🔺Joey made a page about himself on a gay community website and it said he preferred bottoms aged 20 to 40.
🔺When Pedro was in a gay bar he met a guy he really liked, but it soon became clear that they were both bottoms.
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13 февраля 2024 20:33
📒drop off (1)
📖Meaning
to drive someone to a place they need to go to and leave them there
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Every morning I drop my kids off at school on my way to work.
💬 Sergio stopped at the mall and dropped off his mother, and then drove on to the golf course.
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12 февраля 2024 18:30
💠 yips 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
(in phrase the yips) nervous tension that causes mistakes
❕For example
🔺Tiger Woods never seems to get the yips. He always looks calm, even when he's playing a very important shot.
🔺A champion golfer needs to know how to avoid getting the yips.
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11 февраля 2024 19:22
📒inject into
📖Meaning
to add something positive in order to make something work better
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The band had become a bit flat, but the introduction of a percussionist injected some much-needed dynamism into their sound.
💬 The government is trying to inject some confidence into the market.
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10 февраля 2024 18:31
💠 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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08 февраля 2024 08:26
📚(like) water off a duck's back
✍🏾Meaning
You can say an insult or criticism is like water off a duck's back if it doesn't upset you.
❗️For example
🔸I asked Amy if she got upset when journalists wrote negative things about her, and she said she didn't care what they wrote - it was like water off a duck's back.
🔸Terry said he was too sensitive about criticism and he wanted to be like one of those people for whom it's like water off a duck's back.
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07 февраля 2024 09:38
📒 Opportunity only knocks once
📖Meaning
We should take an opportunity (or chance) when it comes. According to this saying, it will not come again.
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06 февраля 2024 10:46
📚zero tolerance
✍🏾Meaning
If something is given zero tolerance, it won't be accepted even once.
❗️For example
🔸Because of the school's zero-tolerance policy, our boy was expelled for smoking just one cigarette.
🔸How can a society based on Christian morals and forgiveness of sin have a zero-tolerance approach to petty crime?
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05 февраля 2024 07:22
📒 Graves are of all sizes
📖Meaning
People die at all ages; no one is too young to die.
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04 февраля 2024 10:39
📚with flying colours | colors
✍🏾Meaning
If you pass a test with flying colours, you pass it easily and get high marks.
❗️For example
🔸Our daughter Rosie was really worried about her history exam, but in the end she passed it with flying colours. We're very proud of her.
🔸I was given a tough assignment at work this week, and today the boss told me it was really just a test. He also said I passed with flying colors.
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03 февраля 2024 07:24
📒 It is best to be on the safe side
📖Meaning
1) Don't take risks. Be careful and cautious.
2) It's best to be sure. It's best to be absolutely certain.
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17 февраля 2024 20:43
💠 hooker 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a female prostitute, a woman who provides sexual services for payment
❕For example
🔺When we were in Amsterdam we went to this area with heaps of hookers sitting behind windows waiting for customers.
🔺One of the best things the government did was to educate hookers about the importance of getting their clients to wear condoms to stop AIDS from spreading.
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15 февраля 2024 10:47
📚kick the bucket
✍🏾Meaning
If someone kicks the bucket, they die.
❗️For example
🔸When I kick the bucket, you can just bury me under a tree at the bottom of the garden.
🔸Did you see the movie "Bucket List"? It's about these two old guys who make a list of all the things they want to do before they kick the bucket.
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14 февраля 2024 08:46
📒 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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13 февраля 2024 09:36
📚so far, so good
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "so far, so good" when you're in the middle of doing something, and everything has been going well.
❗️For example
🔸Tom: "How's the new job going?" Jerry: "So far, so good."
🔸At half-time, the coach looked at his players and said, "So far, so good, but the job's not done yet. Get back out there and fight till the end."
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12 февраля 2024 08:46
📒 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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11 февраля 2024 07:32
📚cross that bridge when we come to it
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" if someone mentions a problem that might occur in the future, but you want them to think about what's happening now instead.
❗️For example
🔸Martin asked what we'd do if our new company couldn't find good staff when we needed to expand, and I said we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
🔸Jenny worries too much about things that might happen in the future, so people are always saying "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it" to her.
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10 февраля 2024 09:27
📒 Necessity is the mother of invention
📖Meaning
If we absolutely need to do something that has never been done, we will find a way to do it. It is this need or necessity that forces people to invent things.
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08 февраля 2024 20:50
📒go down (2)
📖Meaning
to be received in a certain way, or to create a certain reaction
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I think your speech went down really well. People looked really interested.
💬 The manager's request that workers help the company by doing overtime for no pay didn't go down very well.
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07 февраля 2024 20:53
💠 merry 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
slightly and happily drunk
❕For example
🔺We all got a little merry at the Christmas party, but luckily the booze ran out before anyone got properly drunk.
🔺After his third glass of wine he began to feel quite merry.
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06 февраля 2024 19:34
📒go down (3)
📖Meaning
When the sun or the moon goes down, it gets lower and lower in the sky until it disappears below the horizon.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 What time does the sun go down?
💬 We sat on the beach and watched the sun go down.
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05 февраля 2024 20:17
💠 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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04 февраля 2024 20:00
📒make over (1)
📖Meaning
to officially transfer ownership of something to someone
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Frank made most of his estate over to an educational foundation for homeless kids.
💬 Margaret agreed to make her collection of paintings over to the town's art gallery.
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03 февраля 2024 18:54
💠 geezer 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an old person
❕For example
🔺I'm late because I got stuck behind some old geezer at the bank who took ages to sort out his stuff.
🔺One day I'll be one of those old geezers who sit in the park all day playing chess and checkers.
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