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11 декабря 2017 10:18

Slang of the Day

💢ex-con

✍🏾Meaning: someone who has spent time in jail

❕For example:

🔺It can be very hard for an ex-con to get a job once he's been released from jail.

🔺There's a program that ex-cons can join that helps them start a new life and a new career.

🗨Origin: short for "ex-convict"
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09 декабря 2017 09:28

Slang of the day

💥whoopee

✍🏾Meaning: an interjection of great enjoyment or excitement

📌For example:

🔺Whoopee! I won the top prize!

🔺As Suzie was riding the rollercoaster, she threw her arms in the air and shouted, "Whoopee!!"
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05 декабря 2017 09:43

Slang of the day

💥Square

✍🏾Meaning: A plain, boring person; someone who is out of touch with the latest trends.

❗️For example:

🔺Michael is such a square — I've never met anyone so boring.

🔺 You know a dance club has lost its edge when the squares start showing up.

🗨Etymology: This sense of 'square' comes from jazz musicians in the 1920s. When a conductor wanted his orchestra to play in straight 4/4 time, he would snap his fingers in the air and make the shape of a square. Many jazz musicians thought that this time and rhythm pattern was boring, and began to call boring musicians 'squares'.

📌Synonyms: vanilla
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01 декабря 2017 09:50

Slang of the Day

💢totally

✍🏾Meaning: very, really

❗️For example:

▪️This guy I met who runs a website for learning English is so totally cool. You've just gotta meet him!

▪️Iggy's come up with this totally awesome new trick. He flips his skateboard three times in the air before landing on it.
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28 ноября 2017 12:51

Slang of the Day

💥janky

🇺🇸American English
✍🏾Meaning: poorly made, of low quality

❗️For example:

🔺Dave keeps riding his janky old motorbike. I wish he'd get a new one.

🔺How come you got those janky sneakers on? Why don't you get some good ones?

🗨Variety: This is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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26 ноября 2017 07:02

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24 ноября 2017 08:38

Idiom of the Day

💥state-of-the-art

✍🏾Meaning: If something is state-of-the-art, it's the latest and best example of something, or it shows the most recent developments in its field.

❗️For example:

🔺Have you seen Ian's new phone? He says it's got state-of-the-art technology you can only get in that model.

🔺I never buy state-of-the-art products because they're always so expensive. I just wait six months and get the same thing for a lot less.
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20 ноября 2017 14:48

Idiom of the Day

💥You're on!

✍🏾Meaning: You can say "You're on!" if you want to accept a challenge, a bet or an invitation.

❗️For example:

🅰️Batman: "I bet I can do more push-ups than you can, wonder boy!"
🅱️Robin: "You're on, Batman!"

🔺After a hard day's work, Bruce said, "Feel like throwing back a few beers down the pub, mate?" and Barry said, "You're on, matey! Let's go!"
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18 ноября 2017 19:36

Idiom of the Day

📗a recipe for disaster

☑️Meaning: Something is a recipe for disaster if it's going to cause trouble or serious problems.

🎗For example:

🔹Inviting my mother-in-law to stay for a week is a recipe for disaster. I'll end up arguing with her, and then my wife and I will quarrel and then the kids will get upset. It's a bad idea!

🔹Eating too much, not exercising enough, and being under stress is a recipe for disaster. You'll end up overweight and you'll probably die young.
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16 ноября 2017 15:37

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14 ноября 2017 16:01

Slang of the Day

💥klutz
🇺🇸American and 🇦🇺Australian English Offensive

💢Meaning: a clumsy or foolish person

❗️For example:

🔺Why did you tell Barney to pick up the glassware? He's a klutz so he'd be bound to break something.

🔺All he had to do was catch a simple pop-up and we would've won the Baseball World Series. But he dropped it! What a klutz!

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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13 ноября 2017 19:05

Slang of the Day

💥armpit

☑️Meaning: a very unpleasant place

📌For example:

🔹This town is smelly, dirty, ugly and hot. No wonder it's called the armpit of America.

🔹Gerry reckons the town he was born in is the armpit of the universe, but it can't be that bad.
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11 ноября 2017 15:41

Slang of the Day

💥zing

💢Meaning: energy, liveliness

❗️For example:

🔺Liz is a great performer and she should bring a lot of zing to the show.

🔺The team needs a player who can add some zing to the attacking moves.
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07 ноября 2017 18:10

Slang of the Day

💥rap sheet
🇺🇸American English

💢Meaning: a criminal record

❗️For example:

🔺Tommy's always getting into trouble with the police. He's got a rap sheet a mile long.

🔺No-one needs to know about your rap sheet. Just keep it a secret.

🗨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 ноября 2017 14:50

Slang of the Day

💥 ute
🇦🇺 Australian English

💢Meaning: a pickup truck

❗️For example:

▪️After shooting two kangaroos, Bruce threw them into the back of his ute and drove back to town.

▪️Nearly every farmer in Australia owns a ute.

🗨Origin: short for "utility" or "utility vehicle"

🔍Variety: This slang term is typically used in Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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10 декабря 2017 11:27

Idiom of the Day

💥on the off-chance

✍🏾Meaning: You can say you're doing something "on the off-chance" if you're doing it because it might lead to something that you want, even though it's not definite.

📌For example:

🔺Photographers follow celebrities around on the off-chance that they can get a good photograph of them and sell it.

🔺I'll call Frank and tell him where we are on the off-chance that he can join us.
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07 декабря 2017 09:31

Idiom of the Day

💥take the bull by the horns /ˈteɪk ðə ˈbʊl ˈbaɪ ðə ˈhoɚnz/

✍🏾: to deal with a difficult situation in a very direct or confident way

❗️For example:

🔺She decided to take the bull by the horns and try to solve the problem without any further delay.

🔺The woman is taking the bull by the horns and fixing the sink herself.
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03 декабря 2017 09:23

Idiom of the Day

💥get the hang of /ˈgɛt ðə ˈhæŋ əv/
❗️informal

✍🏾: to learn the skills that are needed to do (something)

🔺He was finally getting the hang of his job. [=he was finally beginning to understand and become skillful in his job]

🔺She's getting the hang of driving.
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30 ноября 2017 09:34

Idiom of the Day

🔰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 industy have been hard to come by recently.
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27 ноября 2017 06:28

Idiom of the Day

💥A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN

✍🏾Meaning:
It means two people who are perfect for each other.

❗️Example:

🔺Tim and Lily are truly a match made in heaven. They have bonded with their com­mon love for div­ing, gar­den­ing and even rock-climb­ing!

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This id­iom is based on the no­tion that di­vine forces have a hand in pair­ing up two peo­ple who are very com­pat­i­ble.
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26 ноября 2017 06:28

Slang of the Day

💥bimbo

✍🏾Meaning: a pretty, but empty-headed, young lady

❗️For example:

🔺Linda says most of the women who marry professional golfers or footballers look like bimbos whose main interest in life is shopping.

🔺Cindy said she wasn't a bimbo, and proved it by saying the word itself reflected the oppressive stereotyping that attractive women were still subject to despite the gains made by the feminist movement.
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22 ноября 2017 07:44

Slang of the Day

💥sicko

✍🏾Meaning: a deranged or perverted person

❗️For example:

🔺For a moment I thought there was some sicko with a knife behind me, but it turned out to be my boyfriend sticking his finger in my back.

🔺Did you see the photos of what those sicko prison guards at Abu Ghraib did?

💥Note: The word sicko is normally a noun but can be used as an adjective.
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18 ноября 2017 19:37

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18 ноября 2017 15:32

Slang of the Day

💥kook

🇺🇸American English
✍🏾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.

🗨Variety: This is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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16 ноября 2017 15:23

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💥Eye-catching
✍🏾tending to attract attention, visually attractive, striking

📌Examples:

▪️There were lots of eye-catching posters at the entrance of the cinema.
▪️Her dress was so eye-catching that we couldn’t do anything but stare at her for minutes.
▪️I’m looking forward to hearing from you! Let me know if this lesson was useful!
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13 ноября 2017 19:09

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13 ноября 2017 14:35

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💥under lock and key

💢Meaning: If something is under lock and key, it is kept in a very secure place.

❗️For example:

🔺Make sure these documents are under lock and key until we need them.

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09 ноября 2017 16:39

Idiom of the Day

💥down to earth

Ⓜ️eaning: If someone is down to earth, they are practical and sensible.

❗️For example:

🔺Steven is an artist and a real dreamer, but luckily his wife Sarah is down to earth, so she takes care of their day-to-day lives.

🔺We need someone who can come up with practical, down-to-earth ideas that we can work with in the real world.
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06 ноября 2017 15:02

Idiom of the Day

🔰chickens come home to roost

💢Meaning: If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.

❗️For example:

🔺Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.

🔺The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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03 ноября 2017 15:35

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💥pay a call/visit ⬅️/ˈpeɪ ə ˈvɪzət/

💢Meaning: to go somewhere to visit someone

🔺She paid me a visit [=she came to visit me] while I was in the hospital. = She paid a call on me while I was in the hospital.

🔺The family decided to pay a visit to their friend.
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