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23 апреля 2024 21:35
📚beat around the bush | beat about the bush
✍🏾Meaning
If you beat around the bush, or beat about the bush, you don't say something directly, usually because you don't want to upset the person you're talking to.
❗️For example
🔸I had trouble telling Pedro he'd lost his job. I started beating around the bush and talking about one door closing and another door opening.
🔸Stop beating about the bush. Just tell me what's happened!
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22 апреля 2024 23:08
📒 Even the prayers of an ant reach to Heaven
📖Meaning
God hears all living beings.
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21 апреля 2024 23:04
📚set your sights on
✍🏾Meaning
If you set your sights on something, or set your sights on doing something, it becomes the target of your ambition or the object of your attention.
❗️For example
🔸Stanley has set his sights on coaching Liverpool, so he'll start getting to know people who have influence in the club.
🔸Microsoft has set its sights on one of the biggest search engine companies, so I wouldn't be surprised if the company's shares go up.
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20 апреля 2024 20:26
📒 Brevity is the soul of wit
📖Meaning
The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.
Note: brevity (noun): shortness of time; use of few but exact words | soul (noun): the spiritual part of something; the essence of something | wit (noun): lively, keen intelligence; ability to use words creatively and for humour
Origin: This proverb is based on the words of Polonius in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (1564-1616):
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief...
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18 апреля 2024 08:15
💠 pig (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a police officer
❕For example
🔺Dominic says the pigs always give him a hard time because he's a young black guy and he likes wearing good clothes and lots of jewellery. They think he's a drug dealer.
🔺If Frank finds out that Ian's been talking to the pigs, he'll beat the crap out of him.
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17 апреля 2024 11:27
📒come in (1)
📖Meaning
to enter a room or a building
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I knocked on the door, and then heard her shout, "Come in!"
💬 He came in and sat down.
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16 апреля 2024 07:24
💠 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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15 апреля 2024 08:00
📒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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14 апреля 2024 10:39
💠 narc | nark 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a narcotics officer, a police officer working in drug trade suppression
❕For example
🔺The narcs raided the dealer's apartment after being tipped off by his neighbours.
🔺There are a lot of narks working at the airport.
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13 апреля 2024 10:47
📒fall off
📖Meaning
to become less in amount or lower in level
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Sales of sunglasses usually fall off in winter, but pick up again in summer.
💬 Tourist numbers fell off quite a bit because of the reports of sickness in the country.
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12 апреля 2024 12:29
💠 beef 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a conflict with someone; a complaint against someone
❕For example
🔺Kenny said he's got a beef with me, so I asked him what the problem was.
🔺Rappers always seem to have beefs with one another, but most people think they stage these conflicts for the publicity.
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09 апреля 2024 10:53
📒bring out (1)
📖Meaning
to release a new product
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 They'll be bringing out their latest range of graphic software in the spring.
💬 It's not enough to bring good products out. You also need to market them properly.
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08 апреля 2024 13:06
💠 knackered (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
very tired, exhausted
❕For example
🔺After climbing up and down hills and mountains all day, we were totally and completely knackered.
🔺Trevor is incredibly fit. Everyone else was knackered after running ten kilometers, but Trevor looked like he was just warming up.
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07 апреля 2024 12:59
📒interest in
📖Meaning
If you interest somebody in something, you make them want to know more about it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Companies try to interest people in their products by promoting and advertising them.
💬 It's amazing how a well-made documentary can interest people in a subject that they've never been interested in before.
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23 апреля 2024 09:45
💠 smart-arse 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a person who's annoying because they try to show how clever and knowledgeable they are (n.) | having an annoying way of trying to seem clever (adj.)
❕For example
🔺Greg sounds like a bit of a smart-arse when he's in a discussion because he states his opinion as if it's the last word on a topic.
🔺We don't need some smart-arse ecology professor coming out here and telling us how to run our farms.
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22 апреля 2024 08:34
📒fall over
📖Meaning
If someone falls over, they fall to the ground.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My little girl was running along when she fell over, so I picked her up and gave her a hug.
💬 Be careful when you're walking in the forest. You can get seriously hurt if you fall over.
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21 апреля 2024 09:52
💠 veggy | veggie (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a vegetable
❕For example
🔺The meal was OK but we would've liked more veggies with the meat.
🔺It's really important to eat lots of fruit and veggies.
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20 апреля 2024 08:18
📒weigh in (1)
📖Meaning
to be weighed before participating in a sport like boxing or horse-racing
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The jockeys are weighing in for the first race right now.
💬 What time do you have to weigh in for the fight?
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18 апреля 2024 21:41
📚quaking in your boots
✍🏾Meaning
If you're quaking in your boots, you are very frightened.
❗️For example
🔸This big, ugly dog was growling at me and baring its teeth. I was quaking in my boots, I can tell you!
🔸Our sergeant was a scary guy. He could make a new army recruit quake in his boots just by looking at him.
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17 апреля 2024 20:49
📒 Beware of a silent man and still water
📖Meaning
A large expanse of water that is still and does not move is often deep and dangerous. We should be careful of it. In the same way, we should be careful with a person who does not talk much.
Note: beware (verb): be cautious; be careful | still (adj.): not moving
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16 апреля 2024 20:21
📚a whale of a time
✍🏾Meaning
If you have a whale of a time, you have a great time and really enjoy yourself.
❗️For example
🔸I went to a karaoke club with my friends last night and we had a whale of a time. It was great!
🔸Janet said she had a whale of a time at the party. I wish I'd gone too now.
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15 апреля 2024 22:39
📒 Many a true word is spoken in jest
📖Meaning
Something said as a joke may often contain wisdom and truth.
Note: jest (noun): a joke; something said for amusement or comedy
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14 апреля 2024 23:39
📚throw someone in at the deep end
✍🏾Meaning
If you throw someone in at the deep end, you give them a difficult job to do, or a serious problem to deal with, before they have the knowledge or experience for it.
❗️For example
🔸In her first overseas teaching job, Kathy was thrown in at the deep end with a class of 30 kids and no training, no books, and no guidelines.
🔸Our manager thinks the best way to introduce new staff to the job is to throw them in at the deep end and see how they go.
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13 апреля 2024 21:18
📒 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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12 апреля 2024 21:50
📚You are what you eat.
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "you are what you eat" when you want to point out the connection between food and health.
❗️For example
🔸Why do you eat so much bad stuff like pizza, hamburgers, fries and ice-cream? You are what you eat, you know.
🔸Shelley looks fantastic. When people ask her what her secret is, she smiles and says, "It's simple. You are what you eat."
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09 апреля 2024 21:55
📒 Speech is silver, silence is golden
📖Meaning
Speaking is good but saying nothing is better. Discretion can be worth more than even eloquent words.
Note: speech (noun): the act of speaking | silver (noun): a greyish-white precious metal | gold (noun): a yellow precious metal (more valuable than silver) | This proverb is also found as: "Speech is silver but silence is golden."
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08 апреля 2024 21:50
📚a ray of sunshine
✍🏾Meaning
Something is a ray of sunshine if it brings happiness to someone.
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🔸The birth of Debra's first grandchild less than a year after her husband died came as a much-needed ray of sunshine in her life.
🔸After years of struggling to get established as a writer, the publication of her first short story was a ray of sunshine for Ruth.
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07 апреля 2024 22:24
📒 Graves are of all sizes
📖Meaning
People die at all ages; no one is too young to die.
Note: grave (noun) = (usually) a hole in the ground for a dead body | Compare: "In Golgotha are skulls of all sizes." "Death devours lambs as well as sheep."
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06 апреля 2024 21:03
📚a tall order
✍🏾Meaning
If you say something's a tall order, you mean that it'll be hard to do or difficult to achieve.
❗️For example
🔸Winning six gold medals at the Olympic Games is a tall order, but not impossible. Mark Spitz won seven at the 1972 Olympics.
🔸Getting kids to read 600-page books is a tall order these days, but the writer of the Harry Potter books has managed to do it.
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