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25 января 2018 05:29

Idiom of the Day

💥the upper hand

✍🏾Meaning: If you have the upper hand, you have the advantage or you're in the stronger position in a contest or a conflict.

🔺For example:

▪️With one race to go, the Ferrari team has the upper hand. If they get one of the top three places in the last race, they'll win this year's title.

▪️For many years Yahoo was the top search engine, but for the last few years Google has had the upper hand.
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23 января 2018 07:38

Idiom of the Day

📚kill time

✍🏾Meaning:
You kill time when you do something to amuse yourself while waiting for something.

❗️For example:

🔺I had to kill time at the airport because of the delay so I bought a book of crossword puzzles.

🔺We kill time on long trips by playing this game in which someone thinks of a country, and the next person has to think of another country that starts with the last letter of the first one, like Thailand, Denmark, Kenya, Afghanistan, Nepal, and so on.
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23 января 2018 06:11

Slang of the Day

🔰lardass
🇺🇸American English Offensive

✍🏾Meaning:
an overweight person, esp. one with large buttocks

❗️For example:

🔺Madge has become such a lardass since she stopped exercising and started eating too much.

🔺Bill and Jill get on really well. They're both lardasses who love watching TV all day and eating snacks non-stop.

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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21 января 2018 07:53

Slang of the Day

🔰Hush-Haush

✍🏾Meaning:
▫️Very secret; classified
▫️highly secret or confidential

▪️For example:

🔺I want you to keep this hush-hush, but my wife is pregnant!
🔺a hush-hush political investigation.
🔺a hush-hush border meeting
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19 января 2018 04:46

Slang of the Day

🔰egosurf

✍🏾Meaning:
to search for one's own name on the Internet

▪️For example:

🔺When Trevor tried egosurfing, he was surprised to find seven websites that mentioned his name.

🔺Wheh he egosurfed, John Smith found his name in over two hundred million websites. He admitted that they probably weren't all about him, though.
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17 января 2018 04:23

Slang of the Day

🔰upfront

✍🏾Meaning:
honest, open

❗️For example:

🔺Politicians aren't always upfront about their objectives or goals when running for public office.

🔺Do you think the U.S. government was upfront about their motives for attacking Iraq, or do you think they had a secret agenda?
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15 января 2018 15:46

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰chat up
🇬🇧 🇦🇺 INFORMAL

✍🏾Meaning:
to talk to someone in the hope of beginning a romantic relationship with them

❗️For example:

1️⃣chat up sb
🔺Juan is very good at chatting up girls. He knows how to make them laugh.

2️⃣chat sb up
🔺Mark finds it difficult to chat guys up because he often feels shy, and he doesn't know what to say.

🗨Variety: This phrasal verb is typically used in British and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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12 января 2018 04:54

Slang of the Day

💥hip

✍🏾Meaning:
trendy, stylish, fashionable among young people

❗️For example:

🔺It's hip for young guys to look cute and a bit "fem" these days, so many are taking good care of their skin and spending a lot on clothes and haircuts.

🔺When we were young smoking was hip, but these days it's not so hip to smell of cigarettes and damage your lungs.

🗨Origin: Many etymologists believe that the terms hip, hep and hepcat (e.g., jazz musicians' now cliched "hip cat") derive from the west African Wolof language word hepicat, which means "one who has his eyes open". (from Wikipedia)
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09 января 2018 18:48

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08 января 2018 04:18

Idiom of the Day

📚a gut feeling

✍🏾Meaning:
If you have a gut feeling, you sense something about a person or a situation, without knowing why, but you're sure what you sense is true.

❗️For example:

🔺As soon as I came into the room I had a gut feeling that something was wrong - and then I saw the dead body.

🔺Chaz said his gut feeling was that Laura was lying and, sure enough, she was.

🗨Origin: Probably derived from the fact that many people experience emotions and intuitive feelings as being centred on, or having a strong effect on, the stomach area, which is also called the gut. Interestingly, the nervous system's second biggest network of closely-interconnected neurones, after the brain, is located in this area of the body.
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06 января 2018 06:20

Idiom of the Day

🔰a roller coaster | a roller-coaster ride

✍🏾Meaning:
You can say an experience is a roller coaster, or a roller-coaster ride, if it involves many emotional highs and lows, or really good times alternating with really difficult times.

🔺For example:

▪️The movie follows a young guy's emotional roller-coaster ride as he tries to come to terms with being gay in a small town in Australia.

▪️Eric writes about the roller coaster of rock and roll, with the highs of success and fame followed by the lows of drug addiction and depression.

💢Note: If used to modify a noun or a noun phrase, a hyphen is used, as in "a roller-coaster ride".

🗨Origin: Related to the fact that a roller-coaster ride has many steep climbs and falls, and riding one at high speed is both exciting and terrifying.
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03 января 2018 15:29

Idiom of the Day

🔰wet behind the ears
❗️INFORMAL

✍🏾Meaning:
If someone is wet behind the ears, they don't have much experience of life.

❕For example:

🔺He's just finished high school, so he's still wet behind the ears.

🔺Joni's still wet behind the ears and doesn't know how to deal with the other girls who tease her, but she'll soon learn.

🗨Origin: Probably a reference to the inexperience of a baby so young as to still be wet from the birth.
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02 января 2018 04:35

Idiom of the Day

💥make it big or hit it big or hit big

✍🏾: to become very successful
🔺He always dreamed of making it big in the movie industry.
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01 января 2018 16:42

Idiom of the Day

💥once in a blue moon

✍🏾Meaning:
If something happens once in a blue moon, it happens very rarely.

❗️For example:

🔺We hardly ever go out these days, though once in a blue moon we might go and see a movie.

🔺My daughter lives in Brazil and she only comes to see us once in a blue moon; maybe every two or three years if we're lucky.
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31 декабря 2017 20:22

Slang of the Day

💥lav
🇬🇧British English

✍🏾Meaning:
toilet, lavatory

▪️For example:

🔺Please, miss. Zahra wants to go to the lav.

🔺Nigel's gone to the lav, but he'll be back in a minute.

👁‍🗨Origin: short for "lavatory"

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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24 января 2018 05:31

Slang of the Day

🔰da bomb
🇺🇸American English

✍🏾Meaning:
excellent, extremely good

❗️For example:

🔺This new Batman movie is da bomb, dude!

🔺Joey's new chick is da bomb, man! She's hot!

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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23 января 2018 06:30

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22 января 2018 06:44

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰belong to

✍🏾Meaning:
If something belongs to a person, it is owned by that person.

▪️For example:

1️⃣belong to
🔺Who do these CD's belong to? Are they yours?

2️⃣belong to sb
🔺Native Americans couldn't understand the idea that a piece of land could belong to one person. It was for everyone to use, like the air in the sky or the water in a river.
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20 января 2018 05:46

Idiom of the Day

📚back to the drawing board

✍🏾Meaning:
You can say "back to the drawing board" when a plan or a design has failed, and you decide to begin all over again.

▪️For example:

🔺Their plans to open a hotel in Fiji fell through, so it was back to the drawing board.

🔺Our new drug worked on rats, but when it was tried on people it failed, so we had to go back to the drawing board and start again.
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18 января 2018 03:59

Idiom of the Day

🔰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.

📌Note: "The year dot" is more common in British and Australian English, while "the year one" is more common in American English.
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16 января 2018 04:10

Idiom of the Day

🔰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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13 января 2018 15:11

Idiom of the Day

📚a hidden agenda

✍🏾Meaning:
If someone has a hidden agenda, they have a secret plan or motive for doing something.

🔺For example:

▪️Some people claim that the U.S. had a hidden agenda in Iraq, and that it had something to do with oil.

▪️Lydia says that the girl's hidden agenda is to make Don fall in love and marry her so that she can get his money.
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11 января 2018 03:56

Idiom of the Day

💥a ballpark figure | a ballpark estimate
🇺🇸American English

✍🏾Meaning:
If you give a ballpark figure or a ballpark estimate, you give a number which you think is fairly close to the actual one.

❗️For example:

🔺We don't know the exact cost, but a ballpark figure would be around six million dollars.

🔺I know you can't tell me exactly when it'll be finished, but can you give me a ballpark estimate?

🗨Origin: From baseball, and probably having a history similar to that of the idiom "in the same ballpark" which means "approximately the same amount".

🔮Variety: This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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09 января 2018 15:44

Slang of the Day

💥fib

✍🏾Meaning:
a small, harmless lie (n.) | to tell a small, harmless lie (v.)

❗️For example:

🔺I can tell you're fibbing because you're trying not to smile!

🔺We told our youngest child a little fib about where our pet dog went when he died. She was too young to understand the truth.
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07 января 2018 08:08

Slang of the Day

🔰tight-ass
🇺🇸American English Offensive

✍🏾Meaning:
1) sby who spends as little money as possible, a miser 2) sby who's repressed and very strict about following society's rules

❗️For example:

🔺Our boss is a real tight-ass; we never get a Christmas bonus.

🔺Don't be such a tight-ass, Rob. Let yourself have some fun for a change.

💥Note: An alternative spelling is "tight-arse".

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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04 января 2018 03:47

Slang of the Day

💥zero

✍🏾Meaning:
a worthless person, someone who's done nothing worthwhile in life

❕For example:

🔺Clive is such a zero. He's spent his whole life stacking shelves in his father's shop during the day, and watching television in his room at night.

🔺Those neighbourhood gangsters think they're heroes, but as far as we're concerned they're nothing but zeroes.
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02 января 2018 15:48

Slang of the Day

💥up time

✍🏾Meaning:
time a computer system is operating

❗️For example:

🔺Before choosing a host for your website, check the average up time for their servers.

🔺They claim to have an up time of 99.99 per cent, but I doubt that somehow.
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01 января 2018 20:39

Slang of the Day

💥babe

✍🏾Meaning:
a good-looking young woman

❗️For example:

🔺The boys are down at the beach checkin' out all the cute babes in their swimsuits.

🔺Jill said, "Don't call us babes! It sounds horrible."

➰Note: Some women find this word offensive, so be careful when using it.
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31 декабря 2017 21:31

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31 декабря 2017 19:50

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