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16 декабря 2023 09:49
📚Things are looking up.
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "things are looking up" if things are improving.
❗️For example
🔸John: "Is business getting any better?" Barry: "Well, things are looking up, but it still isn't as good as it was last year."
🔸Things are looking up now that the tourist season is here.
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14 декабря 2023 19:17
💠 honky 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a derogatory term in black American slang for a white person
❕For example
🔺When we were visiting the Apollo Theater in Harlem in New York, a woman passing us on the street said, "What are you honkies doin' round here?"
🔺I have a lot of black American friends, and they all say they hate racist language, including anti-white words like "honky".
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13 декабря 2023 19:42
📒get into (2)
📖Meaning
to become interested in something or focussed on something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 After he retired, my father got into ballroom dancing and windsurfing.
💬 You'll be nervous at first, but you'll relax once you start getting into the music.
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12 декабря 2023 18:49
💠 geezer 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an old person
❕For example
🔺I'm late because I got stuck behind some old geezer at the bank who took ages to sort out his stuff.
🔺One day I'll be one of those old geezers who sit in the park all day playing chess and checkers.
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11 декабря 2023 19:58
📒act out
📖Meaning
If you act out, you express your feelings through acts or words.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Jim often gets into trouble because he acts out his emotions without thinking about the consequences.
💬 We can all have violent thoughts and aggressive feelings sometimes, but society doesn't usually allow us to act them out.
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10 декабря 2023 19:47
💠 Yuck! 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an expression of disgust
❕For example
🔺Did you see that guy spit into his ashtray? Yuck!
🔺Aw, yuck! This toilet smells terrible.
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09 декабря 2023 19:02
📒cheer on
📖Meaning
to shout loudly to encourage someone, especially someone who's playing sport or competing in a race
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 As the players tried hard to score a goal, their fans jumped up and cheered them on.
💬 We all cheered on our favourite horse as they galloped towards the finishing line.
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07 декабря 2023 07:53
📒 Look upon death as a going home
📖Meaning
We may consider dying to be a kind of returning to house and family.
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06 декабря 2023 10:36
📚the icing on the cake | the frosting on the cake
✍🏾Meaning
If something is the icing on the cake, or the frosting on the cake, it makes a good situation or a good result even better.
❗️For example
🔸The fifty thousand dollars the government will give to every athlete who wins a gold medal in the Olympics will be the icing on the cake for them.
🔸AI was happy just to get my book published, so winning the young writer's prize as well is the frosting on the cake.
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05 декабря 2023 08:32
📒 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
📖Meaning
Different people see beauty in different ways. What one person finds beautiful may not appeal to another person.
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04 декабря 2023 08:05
📚keep it under your hat
✍🏾Meaning
If someone tells you a secret and you keep it under your hat, you don't tell anyone.
❗️For example
🔸I'll only tell you if you promise to keep it under your hat.
🔸Aunt Biddy said she couldn't possibly tell me the family secrets because she'd pledged on her mother's grave to keep them under her hat.
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03 декабря 2023 09:16
📒 When the devil cannot come, he will send
📖Meaning
The implication is that the devil is very persistent. He will always find a way to tempt us. If the devil cannot bring temptation to us himself, he will find someone else to bring it.
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02 декабря 2023 08:00
📚um and ah
✍🏾Meaning
If you "um and ah" you're having trouble deciding what to say, or you're having trouble telling somebody something.
❗️For example
🔸Stop umming and ahing and just tell me what happened!
🔸James ummed and ahed for a while, but he eventually agreed to help us get the deal.
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30 ноября 2023 09:49
💠 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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14 декабря 2023 08:39
📒 Truth will out
📖Meaning
In the end, what is true will come to be known. The truth always appears eventually, despite all efforts to hide it. It is impossible to keep something secret forever.
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13 декабря 2023 09:25
📚fresh as a daisy
✍🏾Meaning
If you feel as fresh as a daisy, you feel energetic and lively.
❗️For example
🔸I might look awful first thing in the morning, but after a cup of tea and a bit of meditation I'm as fresh as a daisy.
🔸George looked terrible when he got to work, so Annie said, "Fresh as a daisy this morning, are we?" and George just grunted.
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12 декабря 2023 09:52
📒 Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself
📖Meaning
A bad person will sooner or later be the cause of his own downfall.
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11 декабря 2023 07:29
📚talk turkey
✍🏾Meaning
If you talk turkey, you discuss something seriously, usually to do with business or money.
❗️For example
🔸After the owner had shown him around the apartment, Shane decided it was just what he wanted, so he said, "OK, I'm interested. Let's talk turkey."
🔸I started to say something about the deal, but Mr Hamilton said, "Not now, my boy. We never talk turkey at the dinner table."
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10 декабря 2023 08:04
📒 People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
📖Meaning
This saying warns us against hypocrisy. We should not criticize other people for things we do ourselves.
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09 декабря 2023 09:20
📚answer the call of nature
✍🏾Meaning
If you answer the call of nature, you go to the toilet.
❗️For example
🔸Could we stop somewhere? I need to answer the call of nature.
🔸Does anyone need to answer the call of nature before we set off?
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07 декабря 2023 17:32
💠 git 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a fool, a stupid person
❕For example
🔺When the waiter brought him the wrong dish, Bill lost his cool and shouted, "This is not what I ordered, you stupid git!"
🔺Those gits who work for the government never seem to get it right.
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06 декабря 2023 18:46
📒get over
📖Meaning
to recover from something like an illness or a shock
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 How long did it take you to get over the illness?
💬 Tony was heartbroken when his girlfriend left him, and it took him ages to get over it.
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05 декабря 2023 17:56
💠 mash-up 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a recording that mixes together tracks from two or more different songs or instrumental pieces
❕For example
🔺You can find heaps of great mash-ups on Facebook sites and download them for free.
🔺I just did this mash-up of Fela Kuti and Steve Reich and put some spacey electro stuff over the top.
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04 декабря 2023 17:37
📒stand for (1)
📖Meaning
If letters or symbols stand for something, they represent that thing.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The letters "MBA" stand for Master of Business Administration.
💬 Do you know what the letters "BA" stand for?
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03 декабря 2023 17:12
💠 nick (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to arrest somebody
❕For example
🔺Billy was caught speeding on his motorbike. It's his second offence, so if he gets nicked again he'll lose his licence.
🔺Our neighbours were nicked last night for selling illegal drugs. We used to see lots of people going in and out, but we had no idea they were dealing in drugs.
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02 декабря 2023 19:12
📒run after
📖Meaning
If you run after someone, you chase them and try to catch up with them by running.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I wish my dog wouldn't run after cars. He nearly got hit by one today.
💬 After the thief grabbed my wife's handbag, I ran after him but he got away. He was really fast.
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29 ноября 2023 17:33
📒 He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still
📖Meaning
If you force someone to do something or agree with something, it doesn't mean that they really agree.
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