English Language

06 июня 2023 05:30

📒model on


📖Meaning
to use something or someone as an example to copy when making something or doing something

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The Indian legal system was modelled on the British system.

💬 Many young singers and dancers still model themselves on Michael Jackson.

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05 июня 2023 05:31

💠 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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04 июня 2023 07:36

📒dying for



📖Meaning
If you're dying for something, you really feel like it or you want it very much.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I'm dying for a cup of tea. Let's have a break and I'll make one.

💬 After working non-stop for a month, Charles said he was dying for a day off so he could stay home and do nothing.
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03 июня 2023 05:31

💠 turps 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
alcohol, alcoholic drinks


❕For example

🔺My mate Barry was on the turps for years before he started going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

🔺When I saw Bruce, I said "Geez mate, you don't look too hot. Get stuck into the turps last night, did ya?"
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01 июня 2023 17:49

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01 июня 2023 05:31

📚dirt cheap


✍🏾Meaning
You can say something is dirt cheap if it costs very little money.


❗️For example

🔸Be careful when you buy dirt cheap clothes. They could shrink easily or the colours could run when you wash them.

🔸Kevin is very tight with his money. If he has to buy someone a present, it's always something dirt cheap.

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31 мая 2023 05:30

📒 If you can't beat 'em, join 'em



📖Meaning
If you cannot win against someone or something, it may be easier or better to join forces with them.
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30 мая 2023 09:26

📚friends in high places


✍🏾Meaning
If you have friends in high places, you know people in powerful positions in business or government.


❗️For example

🔸You'll need friends in high places if you want to get to the top.

🔸Martin mightn't be the most brilliant man, but he'll do well because he's got plenty of friends in high places.

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29 мая 2023 05:30

📒 Ignorance of the law is no excuse


📖Meaning
It is no defence to say that we didn't know that something we did was illegal.

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28 мая 2023 08:58

📚a nest egg


✍🏾Meaning
If you have a nest egg, you have money put away for the future.


❗️For example

🔸When Indira inherited some money from her grandpa, she didn't spend it. She decided it was time she had a nest egg so she put it into an investment fund.

🔸Poor old Bill. He married a girl while he was in some foreign country and she got her hands on his nest egg, and now he's back here - with nothing.

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27 мая 2023 05:30

📒 Better safe than sorry


📖Meaning
We should be careful in a dangerous situation. It is better to stay safe than to have an accident (and be sorry about it). The full "grammatical" sentence would be: "It is better to be safe than to be sorry."

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26 мая 2023 11:24

📚give the green light


✍🏾Meaning
If you give something the green light, you give permission for it to be done, or allow it to happen.


❗️For example

🔸The government has given the green light to our tree-planting project, so we can go ahead and start organizing things.

🔸As soon as our CEO gives the new product the green light, we'll start planning production.

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25 мая 2023 12:36

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24 мая 2023 17:30

📒keep up (2)


📖Meaning
If you keep up with someone, you stay at the same level and don't fall behind them.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Rafael can run very fast. When we go running together, it's hard for me to keep up.

💬 Jimmy takes a long time to learn new things, and sometimes he can't keep up with other kids in his class.

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23 мая 2023 17:30

💠 take 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
stolen money or goods


❕For example

🔺The take from the bank robbery was about ten thousand dollars.

🔺The cops have caught the thieves, but they're still looking for the take.
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05 июня 2023 17:30

📚a bad hair day


✍🏾Meaning
If you're having a bad hair day, everything seems to be going wrong for you.


❗️For example

🔸Poor Sue's in a terrible mood. I think she's having a bad hair day.

🔸I knew it was going to be a bad hair day when my car wouldn't start.


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04 июня 2023 18:00

📒 Tell me who you go with and I'll tell you who you are


📖Meaning
This proverb suggests that like minds stick together. If I know who your friends are, I know what your character is.

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03 июня 2023 18:07

📚a roller coaster | a roller-coaster ride


✍🏾Meaning
You can say an experience is a roller coaster, or a roller-coaster ride, if it involves many emotional highs and lows, or really good times alternating with really difficult times.


❗️For example

🔸The movie follows a young guy's emotional roller-coaster ride as he tries to come to terms with being gay in a small town in Australia.

🔸Eric writes about the roller coaster of rock and roll, with the highs of success and fame followed by the lows of drug addiction and depression.

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02 июня 2023 17:30

📒 The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.



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01 июня 2023 17:30

📒knock down (1)


📖Meaning
If something like a building or a wall is knocked down, it is destroyed on purpose.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The old hotel was knocked down so that a new one could be built.

💬If we knocked the tool shed down, we could put a vegetable garden there instead.

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31 мая 2023 17:31

💠 funk 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
(in phrase be in a funk) an unhappy, depressed mood

❕For example

🔺He's been in a real funk since his girlfriend left him.

🔺Everyone in the office has been in a funk since we heard that our company might be going bankrupt.

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30 мая 2023 17:30

📒turn into



📖Meaning
to change from one thing into another

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Isn't it incredible how caterpillars turn into butterflies, and tadpoles turn into frogs? Nature really is amazing!

💬 This guy is a great businessman. He turned a small company into a huge global corporation.
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29 мая 2023 17:30

💠 tight-ass 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
1) sby who spends as little money as possible, a miser
2) sby who's repressed and very strict about following society's rules


❕For example

🔺Our boss is a real tight-ass; we never get a Christmas bonus.

🔺Don't be such a tight-ass, Rob. Let yourself have some fun for a change.

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28 мая 2023 17:30

📒pull in


📖Meaning
If a train, a truck or a car pulls in, it arrives somewhere.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The train you want will be pulling in on platform 9.

💬 A truck pulled in to the yard and the driver jumped out.

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27 мая 2023 17:30

💠 ratty (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
easily annoyed or upset, irritable


❕For example

🔺Laura got drunk last night, and now she's got a hangover and she feels a bit ratty.

🔺I had a really bad day at work today, so sorry if I seem a little ratty tonight.

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26 мая 2023 17:30

📒run on (1)


📖Meaning
to use a particular type of fuel or a particular power source

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Why did it take so long for the big car companies to develop and market cars that run on electricity instead of fossil fuels?

💬 My new mobile phone runs on a battery that lasts for a month before it needs recharging.

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25 мая 2023 17:30

💠 upbeat 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
bright, cheerful


❕For example

🔺The convention should have a lively, upbeat mood, so we need to start off with some upbeat music and an uplifting speech.

🔺The movie tells an upbeat story about starting a new life in a new country and finding love and happiness there.
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25 мая 2023 09:49

📒 Look upon death as a going home



📖Meaning
We may consider dying to be a kind of returning to house and family.
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24 мая 2023 05:30

📚vice versa


✍🏾Meaning
You can say "vice versa" when what you have just said is also true in the opposite, or reverse, order.


❗️For example

🔸He doesn't believe anything she says, and vice versa. They really don't trust each other.

🔸During the cold war, the Americans tried to spy on the Russians, and vice versa.

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23 мая 2023 11:35

📒 Opportunity seldom knocks twice



📖Meaning
Take any opportunity or chance when it comes - it may not come again.
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