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08 мая 2024 22:41
📚wide of the mark
✍🏾Meaning
If something is wide of the mark, it isn't true or accurate, or it misses the target.
❗️For example
🔸The manager expected sales to double this year, but his prediction was wide of the mark. They only increased by ten per cent.
🔸Ronaldo's first shot was wide of the mark, but his second one went right into the back of the net for a goal.
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07 мая 2024 22:49
📒 Share and share alike
📖Meaning
Give everyone an equal portion.
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06 мая 2024 21:07
📚get to the bottom of
✍🏾Meaning
If you get to the bottom of something, you find out its real cause or the true story behind it.
❗️For example
🔸The police don't know who did the robbery yet, but they promised to get to the bottom of it.
🔸I'm not sure how a mistake like this could happen, but I'm determined to get to the bottom of it and make sure it never happens again.
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05 мая 2024 21:20
📒 Money is the root of all evil
📖Meaning
According to this saying, all immorality and wickedness is caused by money. This saying is a misquotation, and the original version ("the love of money is the root of all evil") implies that all immorality and wickedness is caused by people loving money, not by money itself.
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04 мая 2024 13:42
📚a drop in the ocean
✍🏾Meaning
If an amount is a drop in the ocean, it's a very small portion of the amount that's needed.
❗️For example
🔸Our government's sending a thousand tons of food, but that's just a drop in the ocean compared to what's needed.
🔸I know twenty dollars is just a drop in the ocean, but if everyone gave that much it'd make a big difference.
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02 мая 2024 12:25
💠 dirty 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
obscene, pornographic
❕For example
🔺Randy was very embarrassed when his mother found the dirty magazines he kept under his mattress.
🔺People used to get dirty movies and magazines from adult shops or from mail-order companies, but now everyone sees the same stuff online.
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01 мая 2024 12:57
📒kick out
📖Meaning
If somebody is kicked out of a place, they are forced to leave.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Ali was too afraid to tell his parents that he was gay because he knew his father would kick him out.
💬 If you get drunk and make trouble, you'll be kicked out of the bar.
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30 апреля 2024 11:22
💠 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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29 апреля 2024 13:55
📒invite around
📖Meaning
If you invite somebody around, you invite them to your home for a meal, or a party, or a game of cards, etc.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I've invited Bob and Jenny around for dinner on Sunday night. Would you and Carol like to come as well?
💬 Why don't we invite some people around for lunch next week?
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28 апреля 2024 10:22
💠 ump 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
umpire
❕For example
🔺The umps have to make difficult decisions, and they usually get them right.
🔺"What's the matter with you, ump? Lost your seeing-eye dog, have ya?"
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27 апреля 2024 09:44
📒run up
📖Meaning
If you run up a bill or a debt, you get goods or services on the understanding that you'll pay for them later.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 How did they run up such a huge bill at the restaurant? Did they buy the place?
💬 She ran all these debts up while travelling in Europe, and now it'll take her years to pay them off.
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25 апреля 2024 21:17
📚up for grabs
✍🏾Meaning
If something is up for grabs, it's available for anyone who wants to try to get it.
❗️For example
🔸Do you remember when all the best website URLs were still up for grabs? Anyone could get one just by being the first person to claim it.
🔸There are some great prizes up for grabs in their latest competition.
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24 апреля 2024 22:45
📒 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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23 апреля 2024 21:35
📚beat around the bush | beat about the bush
✍🏾Meaning
If you beat around the bush, or beat about the bush, you don't say something directly, usually because you don't want to upset the person you're talking to.
❗️For example
🔸I had trouble telling Pedro he'd lost his job. I started beating around the bush and talking about one door closing and another door opening.
🔸Stop beating about the bush. Just tell me what's happened!
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09 мая 2024 10:04
📒stir up
📖Meaning
to cause trouble among people or to cause bad feelings to arise
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The company says environmentalists are stirring up trouble by telling people the factory will pollute their river.
💬 You'll stir a lot of bad feeling up if you say their son died of a drug overdose. They want people to think it was a heart attack.
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08 мая 2024 08:45
💠 fib 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a small, harmless lie (n.) | to tell a small, harmless lie (v.)
❕For example
🔺I can tell you're fibbing because you're trying not to smile!
🔺We told our youngest child a little fib about where our pet dog went when he died. She was too young to understand the truth.
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07 мая 2024 12:41
📒have out
📖Meaning
If you have something out, like a tooth or an organ, it's removed from your body.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Her dentist said she couldn't save the tooth, so she'll have to have it out.
💬 My son's having his appendix out later today.
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06 мая 2024 07:59
💠 axe | ax (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to dismiss someone from a job (v.) | dismissal from a job (n.)
❕For example
🔺Because of the economic downturn, many companies will have to axe a lot of their workers.
🔺Anyone who creates too many problems for the boss will get the ax.
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05 мая 2024 09:22
📒do in
📖Meaning
to cause someone to feel very tired or worn out
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 That walk up the mountain really did me in. I can hardly move!
💬 Paula looks like she's been done in by all that running. I guess she isn't used to it.
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01 мая 2024 21:34
📒 Neither a borrower nor a lender be
📖Meaning
Do not borrow things. Do not lend things.
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30 апреля 2024 20:30
📚fill somebody's shoes
✍🏾Meaning
If you can fill somebody's shoes, you can replace them and do what they do.
❗️For example
🔸Greg was a great captain for the team so it'll be difficult to find someone who can fill his shoes now that he's retiring.
🔸The general manager is training his son to fill his shoes when he passes the business on to him.
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29 апреля 2024 21:27
📒 Riches have wings
📖Meaning
Money can disappear easily. Money is like a bird with wings: it can fly away if you are not careful.
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28 апреля 2024 21:15
📚change your tune
✍🏾Meaning
If you change your tune, you change your opinion about something or your attitude towards someone.
❗️For example
🔸At first Bill was against selling the rights to his book, but he changed his tune when he realized how much money he could make.
🔸Kelly was quite rude to me at first, but she changed her tune when someone mentioned how wealthy I was.
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27 апреля 2024 22:01
📒 Brevity is the soul of wit
📖Meaning
The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.
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25 апреля 2024 08:29
💠 rubber 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a condom
❕For example
🔺It's really important to use a rubber whenever you have sex. It'll stop you from getting nasty diseases like AIDS and gonorrhea.
🔺Cindy says vending machines that sell rubbers should be in schools, universities, department stores and public toilets.
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24 апреля 2024 09:42
📒rub out (2)
📖Meaning
to kill somebody
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The mafia will rub out anyone who talks to the police.
💬 Drug dealers rubbed him out because he'd cheated them.
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23 апреля 2024 09:45
💠 smart-arse 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a person who's annoying because they try to show how clever and knowledgeable they are (n.) | having an annoying way of trying to seem clever (adj.)
❕For example
🔺Greg sounds like a bit of a smart-arse when he's in a discussion because he states his opinion as if it's the last word on a topic.
🔺We don't need some smart-arse ecology professor coming out here and telling us how to run our farms.
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