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06 февраля 2023 21:00

📚the jury is still out



✍🏾Meaning
We can say the jury is still out when a decision still hasn't been made about something.


❗️For example

🔸It was a terrible mistake, and the jury's still out on whether Bob will lose his job over it, or not.

🔸The jury's still out on who's going to be the new CEO, but we should find out soon.
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05 февраля 2023 20:58

📒pull up (2)



📖Meaning
If a vehicle such as a car or a taxi pulls up, it stops.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I told the taxi driver to pull up outside the post office.

💬 As the truck pulled up at the intersection, its brakes made a loud hissing sound.
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04 февраля 2023 20:39

📚tighten your belt



✍🏾Meaning
If you tighten your belt, you try to spend less money.


❗️For example

🔸I'll have to tighten my belt for a while so I can pay off my debts.

🔸Pablo says his family have had to tighten their belts because everything costs much more now.
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02 февраля 2023 07:13

📒take back (2)



📖Meaning
If a store takes back something they've sold, they allow the buyer to return it for a refund, or exchange it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  I decided I didn't want the new shoes, so I called the store and told them and they said they couldn't take them back because I'd worn them.

💬 Our policy states that we will take back goods and give a full refund if they are in perfect, as-new condition.
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01 февраля 2023 04:56

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31 января 2023 19:05

📒 Dead men tell no tales




📖Meaning
People who are no longer living cannot give evidence.

✍Note
tell tales (verb) = talk or gossip about something secret
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30 января 2023 20:13

💠 psycho 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
crazy, insane


❕For example

🔺This boxer went totally psycho after the referee said he'd lost the fight. He tried to punch the referee and then he was punching anyone who came near him.

🔺Lots of people get crazy thoughts and fears after smoking marijuana. Anyone who gets these fears shouldn't use it, or it could make them go psycho for real.
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29 января 2023 18:00

📒 Beauty is only skin deep



📖Meaning
Physical beauty is superficial. A pleasing exterior is no guide to a person's interior or character.
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28 января 2023 20:05

💠 ace (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
very skillful, very good at something


❕For example

🔺My little brother was never interested in sports when he was young, but now he's an ace basketball player.

🔺If you want to be an ace fighter, you should learn hand-to-hand combat skills like karate or Muay Thai.
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27 января 2023 17:52

📒 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys



📖Meaning
An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.

Note: peanut (noun) = a seed like a hard pea, typically eaten by monkeys | peanuts (noun) = a very small sum of money |
pay peanuts (verb) = pay very low wages | monkey (noun) = a small to medium-sized, human-like animal living in trees in tropical countries
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26 января 2023 04:28

💠 jailbait 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
someone below the legal age of consent


❕For example

🔺He claims he had no idea the girl was jailbait, and insists that she told him she was nineteen years old.

🔺One of the greatest novels in the English language is about a man who falls for a girl even though he knows she's jailbait. It's called "Lolita".
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25 января 2023 04:15

📒 Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again


📖Meaning
From this moment in time you will never be any younger than you are now. (“flow” of time doesn't reverse as of now). At the same time, you are older than you have ever been in your life.
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24 января 2023 10:47

💠 kook 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a strange or eccentric person


❕For example

🔺There's this kook in my apartment building with snake tattoos on his face and he keeps these giant pythons as pets.

🔺Why did Margaret marry a kook like that guy Jim? He thinks he's some sort of Indian holy man or something.
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23 января 2023 14:13

📒 Opportunity seldom knocks twice



📖Meaning
Take any opportunity or chance when it comes - it may not come again.
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22 января 2023 11:49

💠 gasbag 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a person who talks too much


❕For example

🔺Are you sure we should invite Betty? She's such a gasbag that no-one else will have a chance to say anything.

🔺My wife's friend Gillian is such a gasbag. I swear, from the moment she arrives until the moment she leaves, she talks non-stop.
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06 февраля 2023 05:30

📒 Bad news travels fast



📖Meaning
"Bad news" means news about "bad" things like accidents, death, illness etc. People tend to tell this type of news quickly. But "good news" (passing an exam, winning some money, getting a job etc) travels more slowly.
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05 февраля 2023 12:11

💠 cop 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a policeman or a policewoman


❕For example

🔺Tom and Linda had a huge argument, and they were shouting so much that their neighbours called the cops.

🔺Our little boy Jack loves watching cop shows, and now he says he wants to be a cop when he grows up.
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04 февраля 2023 04:59

📒 The wages of sin is death



📖Meaning
If we sin we die. ("Death" here refers not to physical death but to spiritual death or eternal damnation.)
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01 февраля 2023 20:35

💠 dope (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a stupid person, a fool


❕For example

🔺How come those dopes who work in the U.S. Treasury didn't realise what was going on?

🔺Max says the problem with democracy is that there are too many dopes out there, and they'll only vote for someone they can relate to, meaning another dope.
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01 февраля 2023 03:06

📚just the ticket



✍🏾Meaning
You can say something is just the ticket if it's the perfect thing or if it's exactly what's needed.


❗️For example

🔸That's just the ticket! Edna loves brooches, especially if they have bird designs, so she'll absolutely love this one.

🔸As soon as he saw the painting, grandpa said, "That one's just the ticket. It'll look lovely over the fireplace."
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31 января 2023 04:19

📒think of (2)



📖Meaning
to have an opinion about something or someone

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 What did you think of the concert? Did you like it?

💬 Ask Pat what he thinks of our new boss?
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30 января 2023 12:56

📚hold the fort



✍🏾Meaning
If you hold the fort, you look after a place or a business while the person who is normally in charge is away.


❗️For example

🔸Can you hold the fort while I run down to the bank?

🔸Your job will be to serve customers, and occasionally hold the fort if I have to go out.
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29 января 2023 09:47

📒set aside



📖Meaning
to keep a portion of something for use in the future

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 If I set fifty dollars aside every week, by the end of the year I'll have enough to pay for a trip to Europe.

💬 After you've picked the strawberries, set aside any that are damaged and I'll use them to make jam.
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28 января 2023 12:35

📚another string to your bow



✍🏾Meaning
If you have another string to your bow, you have another way of making a living.


❗️For example

🔸Lots of people learn to teach English so they'll have another string to their bow.

🔸I've lost my job and I'll have to retrain for something else. I wish I already had another string to my bow.
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26 января 2023 20:55

📒slip up



📖Meaning
to make a small mistake, usually because of carelessness

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I'm usually pretty reliable, but sometimes I slip up, like everybody.


💬If our goalkeeper hadn't slipped up, we would have won the match.
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25 января 2023 18:55

📚get your act together


✍🏾Meaning
If you get your act together, you greatly improve your attitude and performance in relation to something such as your work, or to life in general.


❗️For example

🔸You're in your thirties now, so it's time you got your act together and started behaving like a mature adult.

🔸Terry is trying to get his act together and do better in all aspects of his life.
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24 января 2023 22:10

📒drop in



📖Meaning
If you drop something in somewhere, you stop to leave it there and then keep going.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 If you're going past the post office, could you drop these letters in for me?

💬 I'll drop the report in on my way to the office
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23 января 2023 21:13

📚a raw deal



✍🏾Meaning
If you think that you got a raw deal, you think you weren't treated fairly or as well as other people.


❗️For example

🔸Doctors in small hospitals in country towns get a raw deal. They earn less, and usually work longer hours, than doctors in big-city hospitals.

🔸If it wasn't for the transport workers union, drivers would still be getting low wages and a raw deal all round.
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22 января 2023 21:41

📒take off (3)


📖Meaning
to have a period of time away from work

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 My doctor says I need to take the week off and rest.

💬 Ted needs to take a few days off work to be with his wife and newborn baby.
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21 января 2023 22:32

📚steer clear of



✍🏾Meaning
If you steer clear of something, you don't go near it because it could harm you or cause you a problem.


❗️For example

🔸My doctor said I should steer clear of spicy foods until I feel better.

🔸I'd steer clear of that guy if I were you. He's a bit crazy and he's always looking for a fight with someone.
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