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28 февраля 2024 20:17
💠 washed up | washed-up 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
having failed, having lost everything
❕For example
🔺Jim used to be a successful businessman, but now that his company's gone bankrupt and he's lost everything, he's washed up.
🔺Masako was shocked by the number of washed-up, homeless people she saw on the streets of American cities.
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27 февраля 2024 19:46
📒cut out (1)
📖Meaning
to remove an area of paper or cloth from a larger sheet by cutting
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My little girl likes cutting out the shapes of animals or fruits and colouring them in.
💬 She cut the recipe out and stuck it on the fridge.
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26 февраля 2024 20:37
💠 off the wall 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
eccentric, extreme, unconventional
❕For example
🔺Some of the clothes that young fashion designers create these days are so off the wall that no-one could possibly wear them in daily life.
🔺Some of Jenny's ideas seem pretty off the wall when you first hear them, but when she explains them you can see where she's coming from.
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25 февраля 2024 19:24
📒whip into
📖Meaning
to create strong emotions like excitement or anger, usually by giving a speech or a performance of some sort
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The protest leaders whipped the crowd into an angry mood with their speeches.
💬 Elvis Presley used to whip crowds of teenagers into a frenzy by moving his hips to the beat of the music.
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24 февраля 2024 19:08
💠 vegetate | veg out 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to do nothing
❕For example
🔺I never go out on Sundays. It's my day for doing nothing except vegetating.
🔺I ain't got no energy so I'm just gonna to sit in front of the TV and veg out.
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22 февраля 2024 07:18
📚fresh as a daisy
✍🏾Meaning
If you feel as fresh as a daisy, you feel energetic and lively.
❗️For example
🔸I might look awful first thing in the morning, but after a cup of tea and a bit of meditation I'm as fresh as a daisy.
🔸George looked terrible when he got to work, so Annie said, "Fresh as a daisy this morning, are we?" and George just grunted.
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21 февраля 2024 05:53
📒 All truths are not to be told
📖Meaning
Some truths are better left unspoken. It is not always necessary to repeat something even though it be true.
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20 февраля 2024 08:51
📚dot the i's and cross the t's
✍🏾Meaning
If you dot the i's and cross the t's, you do something very carefully to make sure you haven't made any mistakes.
❗️For example
🔸I've nearly finished the report. I just have to go over it once more to dot the i's and cross the t's.
🔸Why can't Jerry dot the i's and cross the t's? I always find mistakes in his work.
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19 февраля 2024 06:16
📒 Every man has his price
📖Meaning
According to this saying, all people can be bribed if you pay enough.
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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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28 февраля 2024 07:12
📒 None so deaf as those who will not hear
📖Meaning
Nobody is deafer than the person who decides he does not want to listen. Often used in reference to prejudice and intolerance.
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27 февраля 2024 05:44
📚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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26 февраля 2024 06:17
📒 Everything comes to him who waits
📖Meaning
Patient people eventually receive all things.
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25 февраля 2024 08:17
📚a ballpark figure | a ballpark estimate
✍🏾Meaning
If you give a ballpark figure or a ballpark estimate, you give a number which you think is fairly close to the actual one.
❗️For example
🔸We don't know the exact cost, but a ballpark figure would be around six million dollars.
🔸I know you can't tell me exactly when it'll be finished, but can you give me a ballpark estimate?
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24 февраля 2024 12:13
📒 Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself
📖Meaning
A bad person will sooner or later be the cause of his own downfall.
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22 февраля 2024 19:46
📒advise of
📖Meaning
If you advise someone of something, you tell them about it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 A policemen advised me of my rights and then he arrested me.
💬 Please advise us of any change of address or contact details.
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21 февраля 2024 21:47
💠 kook 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a strange or eccentric person
❕For example
🔺There's this kook in my apartment building with snake tattoos on his face and he keeps these giant pythons as pets.
🔺Why did Margaret marry a kook like that guy Jim? He thinks he's some sort of Indian holy man or something.
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20 февраля 2024 20:33
📒move in (2)
📖Meaning
to move closer, especially when you're trying to attack or catch someone or something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The lioness spotted a young antelope and crouched in the grass, waiting for the right moment to move in for the kill.
💬 The soldiers had to wait for the signal before moving in.
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19 февраля 2024 18:45
💠 sicko 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a deranged or perverted person
❕For example
🔺For a moment I thought there was some sicko with a knife behind me, but it turned out to be my boyfriend sticking his finger in my back.
🔺Did you see the photos of what those sicko prison guards at Abu Ghraib did?
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18 февраля 2024 19:11
📒move into
📖Meaning
to begin living or working in a new place, or to go into a new type of business
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I'll be busy on Saturday because I'm moving into a new apartment.
💬 We'd like to move into a new area of business, and we're thinking it might be advertising.
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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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