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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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30 декабря 2017 20:05

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29 декабря 2017 04:19

Idiom of the Day

💥all and sundry

✍🏾Meaning:
everyone
one and all
all the people, collectively and individually
everybody without discrimination
people in general

❗️Example Sentences:

🔺I don’t want all and sundry to come to know about our differences.
🔺Only those participating in the event have to come tomorrow. All and sundry need not come.
🔺Making this news public would mean that all and sundry would know that our company is not doing well.
🔺All and sundry from that town attended the event as the local sportsman was felicitated for his achievements.
🔺She told all and sundry about their poor financial state and why she could do nothing about it.
🔺After the minister made some inappropriate comments, he received a lot of criticism from all and sundry and had to apologize.
🔺The movie star had a big wedding and all and sundry from the film industry were invited.
🔺Drinks and refreshments were served to all and sundry while they waited for the main event to start.
🔺I do not think all and sundry should be knowing about this new development. We should keep it to ourselves.

🗨Origin
The phrase originated around the late 1400s.
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28 декабря 2017 18:40

Slang of the Day

💥24/7

✍🏾Definition :
All the time; always available; without a break

🔺Example
1) In New York City, a lot of stores are open 24/7.

2) I had to move because my neighbors played loud dance music 24/7.

📌Etymology
Some convenience stores are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The phrase is used for anything that is always (or nearly always) available.

➰Synonyms
around the clock
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28 декабря 2017 04:30

Idiom of the Day

💥to beat a dead horse.

✍🏾Definition:
to keep on doing something after there is no point in doing so

❗️Examples:

🔺You're just beating a dead horse. He's never going to change his mind.
🔺I finally realized that I was beating a dead horse. Nothing I could say was going to make any difference.
🔺Relying on new or existing manufacturing jobs to save the day down the road isn't just beating a dead horse, it's laying down beside it.
🔺I also think that we may have reached the point of beating a dead horse ... so with thanks and love to all, I now respectfully close this thread.

📝Explanation:
The word beat in this idiom means hit. An alternative expression is to flog a dead horse. (Hitting a dead horse is not going to make it move!)
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27 декабря 2017 19:04

Phrasal Verb of the Day

💥drive away

Meaning:
✍🏾to cause someone or something to leave a place

〰For example:

🔴drive sb/sth away

🔺The government's strict new laws on currency trading will drive foreign investors away.

⚫️drive away sb/sth

▪️The farmers are using automatic air guns to drive away the birds.

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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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31 декабря 2017 07:00

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰read out

✍🏾Meaning:
if you read something out, you read it aloud so everyone can hear it.

〽️For example:

▪️read out sth
🔺The prisoners listened as the warder read out their names and numbers.

▪️read sth out
🔺Mario was proud when his teacher asked him to read out his poem so everyone could hear it.
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30 декабря 2017 16:07

Slang of the Day

💥nut | nutter
🇬🇧British English Offensive

✍🏾Meaning:
a crazy or strange person

〰For example:

🔺Howard turned into a real nut in his old age. He wouldn't go outside because he thought alien beings from another planet were after him.

🔺How did a nutter like Gordon get to be office manager?

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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28 декабря 2017 19:19

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28 декабря 2017 16:28

Quote Of The Day

➰In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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27 декабря 2017 19:26

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27 декабря 2017 18:35

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