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03 апреля 2024 11:05
📚if push comes to shove
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "if push comes to shove" before saying what you'll do if things don't go as well as you'd like, and you're forced to do something that you'd rather not do.
❗️For example
🔸I've made up my mind and I'm going to have a career in music. I'd love to be in a successful band, but if push comes to shove I can earn money by teaching guitar.
🔸Sandy says she really wants to stay in her apartment, but if push comes to shove she'll just have to move out and find somewhere cheaper.
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02 апреля 2024 13:06
📒 Make hay while the sun shines
📖Meaning
If we want to make hay, we need sunny weather, so when the sun comes we should take the opportunity to make hay. Thus the proverb suggests that we should make good use of any opportunity while it lasts.
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31 марта 2024 21:08
📚talk through your hat
✍🏾Meaning
If you're talking through your hat, you're talking about something without knowing much about it, or you claim something is true when it isn't.
❗️For example
🔸Evan says that quantum physics proves that space and time don't really exist, but Kathy says he's talking through his hat.
🔸I proved that George was talking through his hat by checking on the internet to find out if what he said is true - and it isn't.
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29 марта 2024 12:48
📒take after
📖Meaning
If you take after an older member of your family, you look like them or you have a similar personality to them.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Alan takes after his mum in personality, but he looks more like his dad.
💬 Do you think Sandy takes after her father or her mother?
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28 марта 2024 13:07
💠 blast (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a great experience, a very enjoyable time
❕For example
🔺You should have come to Neil's birthday party. It was a blast!
🔺The Sydney Gay Mardi Gras was such a blast that we're going again next year, for sure.
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27 марта 2024 14:38
📒chat up
📖Meaning
to talk to someone in the hope of beginning a romantic relationship with them
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Juan is very good at chatting up girls. He knows how to make them laugh.
💬 Mark finds it difficult to chat guys up because he often feels shy, and he doesn't know what to say.
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26 марта 2024 12:07
💠 goof off | goof around 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
waste time, play around
❕For example
🔺Whenever the teacher leaves the classroom she tells her students to keep working, but as soon as she leaves they start goofing off.
🔺It's the kids who goof around in college instead of taking their studies seriously who'll be in trouble when they try to join the workforce.
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25 марта 2024 09:54
📒factor in
📖Meaning
to include a certain item when calculating or planning something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Don't forget to factor in transport costs when you make the quotation.
💬 You need to factor the political situation in when deciding on a country to invest in.
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24 марта 2024 10:31
💠 limo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
limousine
❕For example
🔺Are we going to rent a limo and a driver for the wedding?
🔺The limo's got a TV, a computer, and a bar in the back, and about six people can sit in there.
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21 марта 2024 03:12
📚jockey for position
✍🏾Meaning
If you jockey for position, you try to get yourself in a good position in relation to others who're competing for the same opportunity or the same goal.
❗️For example
🔸Several of us are jockeying for position as we negotiate with the manager for the job of running the new branch office.
🔸Four candidates will jockey for position in the run-up to the Democratic convention next month.
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19 марта 2024 19:50
📒 Man proposes, God disposes
📖Meaning
Human beings can make any plans they want, but it's God that decides their success or failure.
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18 марта 2024 14:47
📚the moment of truth
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The moment of truth is a time when the truth about something is revealed, or when an important decision is made.
❗️For example
🔸We're getting our exam results today so the moment of truth is nearly here.
🔸We've been at the tennis tournament all weekend, and now we're watching the last game in the last match, so the moment of truth is here at last.
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17 марта 2024 15:36
📒 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
📖Meaning
An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.
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02 апреля 2024 22:50
💠 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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01 апреля 2024 18:56
📒come into
📖Meaning
to be given something after its owner dies
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 She's very rich, so her children expect to come into a lot of money when she dies.
💬 Do you think Samantha made all that money herself, or do you think she came into a fortune when a wealthy relative died?
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31 марта 2024 06:59
💠 whack 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to murder, esp. within the context of organised crime
❕For example
🔺There's a contract out to whack Tony B. because he'd whacked Jimmy S., and he'd whacked Jimmy because Jimmy had whacked Paulie T., and so on.
🔺If those Mafia informers don't get protection, they'll be whacked for sure.
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29 марта 2024 19:53
📒 As soon as man is born he begins to die
📖Meaning
The process of dying starts at birth. This saying reminds us of our own mortality, whatever our age.
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28 марта 2024 22:27
📚the ins and outs
✍🏾Meaning
If you know the ins and outs of something, you know all the details about it and understand how it works.
❗️For example
🔸Louis knows how to drive a car, but he knows nothing about the ins and outs of how they work.
🔸It seems that Yoko and Sato are having problems, though I don't really understand the ins and outs of their relationship.
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27 марта 2024 21:29
📒 Fair exchange is no robbery
📖Meaning
Swapping one thing fairly in return for another is not the same as stealing.
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26 марта 2024 20:44
📚yellow journalism
✍🏾Meaning
Journalism in which sensational stories are used to boost sales, or biased reporting is used to change the reader's views on an issue. Both of these are unethical.
❗️For example
🔸Have you noticed how, during a war, normally trustworthy professionals start writing the worst sort of yellow journalism to justify their government's actions?
🔸Joe: "Is there any difference between yellow journalism and propaganda?" Kate: "I think yellow journalism can be even more dangerous than propaganda if it's being presented as objective reporting by well-known journalists."
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25 марта 2024 21:35
📒 Great oaks from little acorns grow
📖Meaning
The normal order of words would be "Great oaks grow from little acorns." We understand: sometimes small and modest things can become very large and impressive things with time.
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24 марта 2024 17:44
📚think the world of
✍🏾Meaning
If you think the world of someone, you admire and respect them very much.
❗️For example
🔸If there's one person most of us think the world of, I guess it'd be Nelson Mandela.
🔸You're a wonderful teacher Miriam, and your students think the world of you, so please don't quit your job.
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23 марта 2024 09:31
📒 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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21 марта 2024 22:10
📒take off (1)
📖Meaning
to remove a piece of clothing, or the top of a container
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If you go to Asia, you should take off your shoes before going into someone's home.
💬 Can you take the top off a beer bottle with your teeth?
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20 марта 2024 09:42
💠 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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19 марта 2024 10:24
📒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.
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17 марта 2024 22:47
💠 emo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a style of music and fashion that developed among American teens in the early 21st century
❕For example
🔺Emo kids love to wear tight black jeans, tight sweatshirts or T-shirts, and scarves, and they dye their hair black and grow long bangs to cover most of the face.
🔺My brother has decided he's an emo kid, so he's taken to moping around in silence while looking like a sulky teenage vampire.
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16 марта 2024 18:25
📒end with
📖Meaning
to have something act as the final part of something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The celebration ended with a spectacular fireworks display.
💬 After the main part of the seminar is over, it ends with each speaker giving a summary of their ideas.
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