💠 Mickey Finn | Mickey | mickey 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a drink to which a drug has been added to make the drinker sleepy or unconscious
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🔺When I was in the Philippines, some guy slipped me a mickey and robbed me.
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📒set up (3)
📖Meaning
to make the necessary arrangements for an event or activity
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💬 The government agrees that a public enquiry is needed and they promised to set one up within the next few days.
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📚eat humble pie
✍🏾Meaning
If you eat humble pie, you admit that you are in the wrong and behave apologetically.
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📒run down (2)
📖Meaning
If you run somebody down, you criticize them and tell them they're no good.
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💬 Just ignore Jenny. She runs everyone down like that when she's in a bad mood.
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📒 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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It's better to have one of something for certain than to run after two of the same thing and not be sure of getting them.
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💠 once-over 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a quick inspection or search
❕For example
🔺Before paying for the car, I had a mechanic give it a quick once-over to make sure it was in good condition.
🔺The army recruits were given the once-over by a doctor. He checked their heart, lungs, eyesight, hearing, reflexes and their private parts.
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📖Meaning
If you talk down to someone, you speak to them as if they are inferior to you or less important than you.
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💠 yakuza 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a Japanese criminal organisation, or a member of such an organisation
❕For example
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🔺Everyone knew Hideki was a yakuza because the tip of his left little finger had been cut off.
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📒 There is safety in numbers
📖Meaning
You are safer as part of a group of people than as an individual. Being in a group makes people more confident about taking action.
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💠 airhead 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a silly, stupid person
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🔺Just because I'm a blonde woman who likes shopping and going to the gym some people call me an airhead, and I'm not!
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📒head off (1)
📖Meaning
to leave a place
🤓For example ⤵️
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💬 I'd better head off. It's getting late and I've got an early start in the morning.
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💠 jollies 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
fun, thrills, enjoyment
❕For example
🔺I can't see the attraction myself, but Bill says he gets his jollies from building and flying model planes and helicopters.
🔺A lot of young people get their jollies from doing adventure stuff like white-water rafting and bungee-jumping.
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📒 Life is what you make it
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It is up to you to make of your life what you want.
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📒turn off
📖Meaning
to stop a machine or an appliance from working by using a button or a switch
🤓For example ⤵️
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📒 Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
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You'll be safer if you know more about your enemies than you know about your friends. Look after your enemies better than you look after your friends.
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💠 coke 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
cocaine
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🔺If you get arrested for selling coke, you'll be sent to jail.
🔺Have you seen the movie "Scarface"? It tells the story of a guy who becomes one of the biggest coke dealers in America.
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If you are dressed to the nines, or dressed up to the nines, you are wearing very smart clothes for a special occasion.
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🔸Have you seen Harry? He's dressed to the nines and he looks amazing.
🔸Everyone was dressed up to the nines for the Academy Awards, with the men in tuxedos and the women in evening gowns.
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📒 The early bird catches the worm
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Birds that wake early in the morning will find worms to eat, but birds that wake late will find no worms. The saying suggests that the same is true for us in life. If we do something early, before other people, we will be successful.
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📚x-rated
✍🏾Meaning
If something is x-rated, it is classified as pornographic and therefore not suitable for young people.
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🔸One of the first x-rated movies to get a general release was "Last Tango in Paris" with Marlon Brando.
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📖Meaning
If you help someone out, you do something to help them.
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✍🏾Meaning
If you say that something is a piece of cake, you mean that it is extremely easy.
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📒 No man is an island
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Human beings do not (or should not) live in isolation. All people are interconnected. A person is not like an island, standing alone and surrounded by sea.
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📚an end in itself
✍🏾Meaning
If something is an end in itself, it's done for its own pleasure or benefit rather than for some other purpose like making money.
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If you come a cropper, you fall over, or you make a mistake which has serious consequences for you.
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