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16 января 2023 12:29

💠 fruit 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an offensive, derogatory word for a gay man, or a male homosexual


❕For example

🔺Oscar was on the subway when some teenage boys sat near him, and one of them said, "Why you lookin' at us? You some sort of fruit, are ya?"

🔺When I was in the U.S., I saw a sticker on the back of a car that said, "Jesus hates fruits. Kill a queer for Christ." How crazy is that?
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15 января 2023 11:31

📒 What you see is what you get




📖Meaning
1) There is nothing hidden. What you are looking at is the real thing. 2) In computing, the way something displays on the screen is the way it will display in print (or other media) -- hence the acronym WYSIWYG.
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13 января 2023 21:06

💠 hot (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
stolen


❕For example

🔺It's not easy to sell a hot car. The police send out lists of stolen vehicles to car dealers.

🔺Those computers usually cost about two thousand dollars, so if you only paid five hundred, it must be hot.
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12 января 2023 21:17

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12 января 2023 13:14

📒wait around



📖Meaning
If you have to wait around for something, you have to wait a long time for it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Why do we always have to wait around when we have an appointment with a doctor or a dentist?

💬Drug addicts spend most of their time waiting around for dealers to come with the drugs they need. What a boring life it must be!
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10 января 2023 22:12

📚learn the ropes


✍🏾Meaning
If you learn the ropes, you learn how to do a job properly, or how things work and how to get things done.


❗️For example

🔸Ruth will teach you what to do, and it shouldn't take you too long to learn the ropes.

🔸It can take quite a while for a new lawyer to learn the ropes in a big legal firm.
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09 января 2023 20:40

📒put forward (1)



📖Meaning
to offer an idea, an opinion, a suggestion, etc. for other people to consider

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 He put forward an interesting argument, but no-one was really convinced by it.

💬 If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to put them forward and they'll be given our full consideration.

💬 Many of the suggestions that have been put forward are excellent.
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08 января 2023 21:05

📚hard to come by



✍🏾Meaning
If something is hard to come by, it is difficult to find.


❗️For example

🔸A good cheap hotel is hard to come by in London these days.


🔸Good jobs in the airline industry have been hard to come by recently.
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07 января 2023 21:01

📒divide up


📖Meaning
If you divide something up, you separate it into smaller parts so that everyone gets a share.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We'll divide up any profits we make at the end of each month.

💬 If we divide the office space up into ten equal areas, we can create work stations for ten members of staff.
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06 января 2023 21:14

📚an ivory tower




✍🏾Meaning
You can say someone's in an ivory tower if they're in a place that separates them from everyday life, such as a university.


❗️For example

🔸People often complain that academics stuck in their ivory towers don't really understand the problems of the average person.

🔸Peter's dream is to get tenure in a university and spend the rest of his life hidden away in an ivory tower.
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05 января 2023 22:03

📒hand out



📖Meaning
to give something directly to a number of people

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 As the students filed into the classroom, their teacher handed out the examination booklets.


💬A couple of teenagers were standing in front of the department store handing flyers out to the people walking past.
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04 января 2023 19:56

📚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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03 января 2023 19:04

📒describe as




📖Meaning
to say that something is a certain kind of thing or that someone is a certain type of person

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Would you describe your music as rock or pop?

💬 I'd describe Uncle Ted as a fairly typical middle-aged man.
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02 января 2023 10:43

📚kick the habit




✍🏾Meaning
If you kick the habit, you manage to stop doing something that has become a bad habit.


❗️For example

🔸I wish I could stop smoking cigarettes but I just can't kick the habit.

🔸Rashid used to bite his fingernails but his girlfriend made him kick the habit.
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01 января 2023 11:11

📒stand out



📖Meaning
If somebody stands out, they are easy to see because there is something unusual about the way they look or the way they behave.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 One of my sons says he likes people to notice him, and his green hair certainly makes him stand out in a crowd.

💬Most packaging is designed to stand out on the shelf and be easy to notice in a shop.
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15 января 2023 21:21

📚year dot | year one



✍🏾Meaning
You can say "the year dot", or "the year one", when you're talking about a very, very long time ago.


❗️For example

🔸There have been people living in Australia since the year dot, but Europeans have only been there for about two hundred years.

🔸People have been interested in the stars and the moon since the year one.
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14 января 2023 11:31

📒log in



📖Meaning
to do certain things, like typing in a username and password, in order to access an online application or a computer network

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I couldn't log in because I'd forgotten my password.

💬 If you want to post a response, you'll have to log in to the web board first.
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13 января 2023 11:44

📚go out on a limb




✍🏾Meaning
If you go out on a limb, you put yourself in a risky position in order to support someone or something.


❗️For example

🔸He knew it could damage his career, but Keith went out on a limb and said he supported the anti-war protesters.

🔸I don't think that saying you support gay rights means you're going out on a limb these days.
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12 января 2023 20:37

📒 Dying men speak true



📖Meaning
When people are about to die, they usually tell the truth.
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11 января 2023 20:08

💠 louse 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an unpleasant or nasty person


❕For example

🔺That guy Brian is such a louse. He lied to his grandmother, saying he needed money for an operation, and then bought a sportscar.

🔺You'd have to be a real louse to fire a worker because she got sick.
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10 января 2023 11:52

📒 All clouds bring not rain



📖Meaning
We can rephrase this: "Not every cloud brings rain." And that's true. Sometimes there are many clouds in the sky, but it doesn't rain. Don't judge things by appearances.
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09 января 2023 12:55

💠 fab 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
fabulous, wonderful


❕For example

🔺Harvey and Danny said they had a totally fab time at the Gay Mardi Gras in Sydney.

🔺Jenny felt better about her new outfit when her hair-stylist said she looked absolutely fab in it.
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08 января 2023 11:27

📒 Charity begins at home



📖Meaning
Our first responsibility is to our own family and friends.
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07 января 2023 11:29

💠 pimp (2) | pimp out 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to customize or renovate something; to make something flashier or more appealing


❕For example

🔺Hey, check it out! Jay's pimped his car. Let's get him to take us for a ride.

🔺I'm gonna pimp out my room in college. I'll get a coupla lamps and some pix and some other stuff to make it look cool.
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06 января 2023 10:42

📒 Dumb dogs are dangerous



📖Meaning
People who say little or nothing are more dangerous than people who speak a lot.
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05 января 2023 04:20

💠 beat box 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to create rhythmic percussive sounds with your mouth, especially when accompanying rhymes or rapping


❕For example

🔺Last year there was a guy on American Idol who was really good at beat boxing.

🔺You do the beat box stuff and I'll bust some rhymes.
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04 января 2023 11:28

📒 Turn your wounds into wisdom



📖Meaning
Fittingly, wounds turn into scars, and you will have that remnant of what happened and a constant reminder of the progress you have made. So, turn your wounds into wisdom, and know that certain things that happen in your life are meant to be there in order to help you grow.
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03 января 2023 02:59

💠 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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01 января 2023 21:11

📒 Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich



📖Meaning
God makes no distinction between people with money and people without money.

Note: heaven (noun) = (according to various religions) the home of God, and the place where good people go after death | as soon as = as easily as
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