💠 rock 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to be great, excellent
❕For example
🔺House" is one of the best TV shows ever! It totally rocks!
🔺My kids really love their new computer. Little Tommy said, "It rocks, Dad!"
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📚a queer fish
✍🏾Meaning
If someone's a queer fish, they are a bit strange and can sometimes behave in an unusual way.
❗️For example
🔸Your great grandfather was a queer fish, Johnny. He used to write funny poems and then he'd read them aloud to everyone on the train on his way to work.
🔸Some of the characters described as "queer fish" in old novels might be called "weirdos" these days.
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📒wait on (2)
📖Meaning
to wait for the results of something, or for information about something, before deciding what to do next
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The investigators are waiting on the toxicology results before making their final report.
💬 Her family is in the next room waiting on the test results.
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💠 can (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to reject or criticize something or someone
❕For example
🔺The show's ratings were so bad that the network canned it after just a few episodes.
🔺The English media cans the national football team whenever they lose a game.
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📚(have) egg on your face
✍🏾Meaning
You will have egg on your face if you've said or done something wrong, and it's made you feel embarrassed or stupid.
❗️For example
🔸Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.
🔸The police force had egg on its face because they arrested and beat up an innocent guy who had the same name as a suspect they were looking for.
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📒put through (2)
📖Meaning
to pay for someone's education through school, college, university, etc.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 It's costing her a lot of money to put herself through law school.
💬How much does it cost to put a kid through college these days?
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💠 ill 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
good, excellent
❕For example
🔺The new Neo album is ill, man!
🔺Corrie's new jacket is ill. Where can I get one?
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📚a blessing in disguise
✍🏾Meaning
You can say something is a blessing in disguise if it appears to be bad at first, but it results in something very good in the end.
❗️For example
🔸Being caught in that traffic jam was a blessing in disguise. If I hadn't missed the flight, I would have been on that plane when it crashed.
🔸His accident was a blessing in disguise because it gave him lots of time to think about his life while he was recovering, and as a result he made some important changes that improved his life.
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💠 vac (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
vacation, holiday
❕For example
🔺Are you going overseas in the long vac?
🔺I'm looking for a job over the vac. Any ideas?
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📒 Man proposes, God disposes
📖Meaning
Human beings can make any plans they want, but it's God that decides their success or failure.
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💠 flake 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an unreliable person who says they'll do something, but then doesn't do it
❕For example
🔺Lenny's such a flake! This is the third time he hasn't come after we'd planned to meet.
🔺John called in sick again today. He's such a flake.
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📒 Truth has no answer
📖Meaning
It is difficult to argue against facts. We cannot refute what is true.
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💠 rubbish 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to make very negative comments, to strongly criticise
❕For example
🔺British newspapers nearly always rubbish local sports teams when they don't do well in international competitions.
🔺Why does that guitarist in Oasis always rubbish other bands? I don't think I've ever heard him say anything nice about another band, except for The Beatles.
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📒 Rags to rags in three generations
📖Meaning
The first generation in a family makes money (goes from rags to riches); the second generation holds or keeps the money; and the third generation squanders or loses the money (and so goes back to rags).
✍Note
rags (noun) = old, tattered clothes | generation (noun) = all of the people born and living at about the same time; a set of members of a family born and living at about the same time
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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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📒 You can't tell a book by its cover
📖Meaning
You cannot judge what something or someone is like by looking at the exterior.
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📒 Facts are stubborn things
📖Meaning
We cannot avoid the truth, even when it is not what we want to hear or express.
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📒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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📚time after time
✍🏾Meaning
If you do something time after time, you do it again and again, or repeatedly.
❗️For example
🔸We've told our son time after time to call us if he's going to be late, but he still forgets sometimes.
🔸Tiger wins major tournaments time after time. He really is a champion.
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📒hang out (2)
📖Meaning
to spend time in a certain place, or with certain people
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 After school, most of the kids hang out in front of the mall.
💬 I'm worried about my son. He's started hanging out with kids who smoke and drink.
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📚dig one's own grave
✍🏾Meaning
If you dig your own grave, you do something unwise that will result in your own failure or downfall in the future.
❗️For example
🔸Anyone who eats too much and doesn't exercise is digging their own grave.
🔸Jim lost his job, but he dug his own grave by being late all the time.
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📒take on (2)
📖Meaning
to give someone a job
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We need to take on two more workers in the warehouse.
💬 I promised to take Francine's sister on if we needed another typist.
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📚Never say die!
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "Never say die!" if you want to tell someone to keep trying while there's still a chance of success.
❗️For example
🔸We were two goals down with only a few minutes to go, but our captain wouldn't give up. He was shouting, "Come on, guys! Never say die!"
🔸After falling off his surfboard for the hundredth time, Craig climbed back on and said with a laugh, "Never say die!"
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📒get back (2)
📖Meaning
If you get something back, it is returned to you after you've lent it, lost it, or had it stolen.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If you leave something in a taxi, you might get it back if you call the taxi company.
💬 I'm never lending money to Dave again. Last time it took six months to get back the hundred dollars I lent him.
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