English Language

02 августа 2023 09:35

📒 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush



📖Meaning
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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01 августа 2023 09:09

📚run rings around | run circles around


✍🏾Meaning
If you run rings around someone, or run circles around them, you do something much better than they do.

❗️For example

🔸The Democrat candidate ran rings around the Republican candidate in their debate on the economy.

🔸We watched this dance contest and some kid from Brixton ran circles around a guy from Chelsea.

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31 июля 2023 07:49

📒 Practice makes perfect



📖Meaning
The more you do something, the better you become at it. Regular exercise of a skill or activity helps you become expert at it.

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30 июля 2023 08:05

📚eyes like a hawk


✍🏾Meaning
If someone has eyes like a hawk, they have very good eyesight and they notice everything.


❗️For example

🔸One of the president's bodyguards is over sixty, but he's still got eyes like a hawk. Just last year he spotted a guy pulling out a gun fifty yards away, and saved the president's life by pushing him to the ground.

🔸You need eyes like a hawk to be a line judge at Wimbledon, especially these days when the top tennis players hit the ball so fast.


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29 июля 2023 05:30

📒 Truth has no answer



📖Meaning
It is difficult to argue against facts. We cannot refute what is true.

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26 июля 2023 06:37

📒see to


📖Meaning
If you see to something, you take responsibility for it and make sure it's done.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The police chief promised he'd see to it that whoever was behind the attacks would be caught and punished.

💬 That's a nasty cut. You'd better go to the hospital and have it seen to.

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24 июля 2023 19:50

💠 empty-nester 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a parent whose children have grown up and left home


❕For example

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🔺We're still getting used to being empty-nesters. The house seems so quiet all the time.

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23 июля 2023 20:16

📒read into



📖Meaning
to believe you've found more meaning in what someone says or does than others have found

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 You're reading too much into what he said. I don't think he meant to insult you.

💬 A lot can be read into what someone says, but it doesn't mean that it's all true.
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22 июля 2023 08:31

💠 beat it 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
go away


❕For example

🔺Some kids were smoking in the carpark, but when one of them saw a teacher coming they grabbed their stuff and beat it.

🔺When Peter came back from the bathroom, some guy was talking to Leanne. Peter said, "Beat it, pal! She's with me."

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21 июля 2023 11:54

📒go after (2)


📖Meaning
to try to get something

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Are you planning to go after Alex's job when he retires?

💬 If Rupert thinks there's a chance to take over a profitable company, he'll go after it with everything he's got.

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20 июля 2023 17:34

📚talk turkey


✍🏾Meaning
If you talk turkey, you discuss something seriously, usually to do with business or money.


❗️For example

🔸After the owner had shown him around the apartment, Shane decided it was just what he wanted, so he said, "OK, I'm interested. Let's talk turkey."


🔸I started to say something about the deal, but Mr Hamilton said, "Not now, my boy. We never talk turkey at the dinner table."

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19 июля 2023 17:58

📒 Give credit where credit is due


📖Meaning
The implication is that even if we are reluctant to praise someone, we should do so if the praise is deserved.

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18 июля 2023 19:48

📚like a fish out of water


✍🏾Meaning
You feel like a fish out of water if you're surrounded by people who are different to you, and it's making you feel a little uncomfortable.


❗️For example

🔸I was the only black person in a church full of white people, and I felt like a fish out of water at first. But lots of people came up and talked to me after the service, and I soon felt quite at home.


🔸Sayoko travels to a lot of unusual places. She says feeling like a fish out of water is sometimes interesting.

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17 июля 2023 20:12

📒 “The secret of discipline is motivation. When a person is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”


📖Meaning
When you intrinsically have desire toward something you'll do it at any cost.

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16 июля 2023 19:46

📚out-of-date (1)


✍🏾Meaning
Something is out-of-date if it is old and therefore no longer useful or no longer accurate.


❗️For example

🔸Don't waste money on old textbooks because they could be out-of-date and the information might no longer be correct.

🔸I didn't know the timetable was out-of-date. I got it off the internet so I thought it'd be new, not an old one from the 1990's.

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01 августа 2023 17:36

📒knock back (1)


📖Meaning
to take a drink, usually alcoholic

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Every day after work, Steve and his mates knock back a few beers.

💬 The bartender poured Amy a whisky soda and she knocked it back and asked for another one.

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31 июля 2023 18:30

💠 joint (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a prison, a jail


❕For example

🔺My cousin Henry has been in the joint for the last three years, but he might get out on parole next year.

🔺After he got out of the joint, Sammy had a lot of trouble finding a job. Most people won't hire someone who just got out of jail.

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30 июля 2023 18:48

📒write down


📖Meaning
to write something on a piece of paper

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  After chatting to the girl for a while, Shane wrote down his name and number on a piece of paper and gave it to her.

💬Most insurance companies will try to find any reason they can to avoid paying out claims to their customers.

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29 июля 2023 17:30

💠 E | ecstasy 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an illegal amphetamine-like drug


❕For example

🔺Lots of people took E, or ecstasy, back in the eighties, before it was known to be dangerous.

🔺E is still used by a few reckless club-goers who are willing to risk damaging their brain in order to feel good for a couple of hours.

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27 июля 2023 19:06

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25 июля 2023 09:17

📚a bad hair day


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


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🔸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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24 июля 2023 09:45

📒 It is best to be on the safe side



📖Meaning
1) Don't take risks. Be careful and cautious.
2) It's best to be sure. It's best to be absolutely certain.

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23 июля 2023 11:10

📚a quick study


✍🏾Meaning
If you're a quick study, you can learn new things quickly.

❗️For example

🔸Albert was always a quick study, except when it came to learning languages.

🔸I only need to show Sue how to do something once, and she gets it. She's a quick study, that girl.

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21 июля 2023 18:30

📒 The pen is mightier than the sword


📖Meaning
This proverb suggests that written material like books or poetry has more influence than fighting or war. We may also understand from it that ideas (as often set down in writing) are more effective than violence.

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20 июля 2023 17:45

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20 июля 2023 08:40

💠 empty-nester 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a parent whose children have grown up and left home


❕For example

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🔺We're still getting used to being empty-nesters. The house seems so quiet all the time.

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19 июля 2023 07:02

📒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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18 июля 2023 10:54

💠 quad (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a quadruplet, one of four babies born together from the same mother


❕For example

🔺I'm teaching a set of quads in my kindergarten class this term, and I can't tell them apart. All four look exactly the same!

🔺After getting fertility treatment, Jill gave birth to a set of four healthy quads. She's been home with them for one week and she's already exhausted!

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17 июля 2023 09:00

📒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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16 июля 2023 11:07

💠 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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