📒hold out for
📖Meaning
to wait until you get what you want, especially when negotiating
🤓For example ⤵️
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💬 We held out for a better contract, and we got it after some hard bargaining.
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💠 gnarly 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
extreme (in either a good or bad sense)
❕For example
🔺That was a real gnarly spill, man! You sure you're OK?
🔺Hey dude, that concert was gnarly! Whooa!!
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📒go after (2)
📖Meaning
to try to get something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Are you planning to go after Alex's job when he retires?
💬 If Rupert thinks there's a chance to take over a profitable company, he'll go after it with everything he's got.
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💠 bugger off 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to go away
❕For example
🔺As soon as they'd finished eating dinner, the kids buggered off and left us to clean up the kitchen.
🔺After I'd hailed a taxi some guy ran up and tried to get in, so I grabbed his arm and told him to bugger off.
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📚safe and sound
✍🏾Meaning
If you are safe and sound, nothing has harmed you even though you could have been in danger.
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It is good for us to sleep early in the evening and wake early in the morning.
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📚wheeling and dealing
✍🏾Meaning
If you're wheeling and dealing, you're involved in the complex world of making deals and exchanging favours in business or politics, or both.
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📒 All that glitters is not gold
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The attractive exterior of something is not a good indicator of its real nature. It may look valuable, but not be valuable.
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📚a bad hair day
✍🏾Meaning
If you're having a bad hair day, everything seems to be going wrong for you.
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📒 Opportunity seldom knocks twice
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Take any opportunity or chance when it comes - it may not come again.
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💠 beat it 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
go away
❕For example
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🔺When Peter came back from the bathroom, some guy was talking to Leanne. Peter said, "Beat it, pal! She's with me."
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📒knock down (1)
📖Meaning
If something like a building or a wall is knocked down, it is destroyed on purpose.
🤓For example ⤵️
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💬If we knocked the tool shed down, we could put a vegetable garden there instead.
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💠 bloody 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an intensifying expletive used before an adjective, adverb or noun; very, really; total, complete
❕For example
🔺It's bloody hot in here. And now the bloody air conditioner won't work. Bloody hell!
🔺You'd have to be a bloody idiot to vote for a party that's just ruined the economy.
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📚eat humble pie
✍🏾Meaning
If you eat humble pie, you admit that you are in the wrong and behave apologetically.
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📒 Patience surpasses learning
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1) The ability to wait for a long time without getting angry is even better than education.
2) the capacity to accept delay without getting upset will achieve more than study in the end
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📚weather a storm
✍🏾Meaning
If you weather a storm, you survive a dangerous event or deal with a difficult situation.
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📒 None so deaf as those who will not hear
📖Meaning
Nobody is deafer than the person who decides he does not want to listen. Often used in reference to prejudice and intolerance.
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📒live on
📖Meaning
If you live on a certain amount of money, you spend that much on your usual living
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Are you sure a hundred dollars a week is enough to live on?
💬 How do people live on the old-age pension? It's not even enough to buy good food.
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💠 vocab 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
vocabulary
❕For example
🔺Vladymir says the thing he enjoys more than anything else in the whole world is studying English vocab. Vladymir also likes joking.
🔺Don't forget you'll be having a slang vocab test next week.
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📒turn out (2)
📖Meaning
to have a certain outcome, or to end in a certain way
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We weren't sure if moving to Japan was a good idea at first, but we're very pleased with the way things have turned out.
💬 Don't worry. I'm sure everything will turn out fine in the end.
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💠 ratty (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
easily annoyed or upset, irritable
❕For example
🔺Laura got drunk last night, and now she's got a hangover and she feels a bit ratty.
🔺I had a really bad day at work today, so sorry if I seem a little ratty tonight.
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📒stop over
📖Meaning
to stop at a place and stay there for one or two days while on your way to somewhere else
🤓For example ⤵️
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💬 I'm stopping over in Bangkok for one night on my way to Sydney.
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💠 meltdown 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a disastrous collapse, esp. of a market or an economy
❕For example
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🔺If there's an economic meltdown, many companies will go out of business and many people will lose their jobs.
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📒do about
📖Meaning
If you do something about a problem, you do something to fix it or solve it.
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💬 My printer won't work and I'm not sure what to do about it.
💬What do you think we should do about our company's falling market share?
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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.
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🔸Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.
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📒 Ignorance of the law is no excuse
📖Meaning
It is no defence to say that we didn't know that something we did was illegal.
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📚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.
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📒 Necessity is the mother of invention
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