📚an axe to grind (2)
✍🏾Meaning
If you have an axe to grind, you have a strong opinion about something and you express this opinion whenever you can.
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💠 ace (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
very skillful, very good at something
❕For example
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📒 Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself
📖Meaning
A bad person will sooner or later be the cause of his own downfall.
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💠 dis | diss 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to show disrespect to someone by saying or doing something insulting
❕For example
🔺Make sure you don't dis any of these guys or they could get really mad with you.
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📒 He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still
📖Meaning
If you force someone to do something or agree with something, it doesn't mean that they really agree.
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✍🏾Meaning
a Japanese criminal organisation, or a member of such an organisation
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📒 Every dog has his day
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2) We will all have good luck or success at some point in our lives.
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📚under the weather
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If you are under the weather, you're not feeling well.
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📒turn out (1)
📖Meaning
to make a light go off
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📚under a cloud
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If someone is under a cloud, they are suspected of having done something wrong.
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📖Meaning
If you note down something, you write it on a piece of paper or in a notebook.
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💬 Leon took a moment to note the number down.
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📚cook the books | cook the accounts
✍🏾Meaning
If someone cooks the books, or cooks the accounts, they keep inaccurate accounts for a business, usually in order to pay less tax.
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🔸I found this website that shows you how to cook the accounts, but I'd never try doing it.
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📒march on
📖Meaning
to walk in a group towards a place in order to protest against something or to demand something
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📒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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💠 veejay | VJ 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a presenter of music videos, usually on television
❕For example
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🔺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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📒set back (2)
📖Meaning
If something has set you back fifty dollars, it has cost you fifty dollars.
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📚whet your appetite
✍🏾Meaning
If something whets your appetite, it makes you want something, or it stimulates your desire for something.
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📒rope in
📖Meaning
If somebody ropes you in, they persuade you to do something you don't really want to do.
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📚quid pro quo
✍🏾Meaning
If you do something as a quid pro quo, you do it on the understanding that something will be done for you in return.
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📒sign in
📖Meaning
to sign a register when you visit a place, or to log in when you visit a website
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💠 savvy 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
awareness of how to succeed in competitive pursuits such as politics or business
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📒 A word to the wise is enough
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A very brief warning or explanation is enough for an intelligent person.
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💠 mosh pit 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an area in front of the stage at a rock concert where people dance energetically, or "mosh"
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📒 There is safety in numbers
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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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💠 ice (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to kill someone
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📚blow your own horn | blow your own trumpet
✍🏾Meaning
If you blow your own horn, or blow your own trumpet, you proudly boast about your own talents and successes.
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If you pass something on, you give it to another person after receiving it yourself.
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