English Language
08 июля 2024 14:33
📒 When the going gets tough, the tough get going
📖Meaning
When a situation is difficult or dangerous, strong people work harder to resolve the problem. This saying relies on a difficult play on words; it could be rephrased word-for-word as: "When the situation becomes hard, strong people start working."
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07 июля 2024 12:38
💠 empty out 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to remove everything from inside something
❕For example
🔺The cops stopped the boys and told them to empty out their pockets.
🔺 I knew I'd been promoted when the boss smiled and told me to empty my old desk out and take everything to the office next to his.
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06 июля 2024 10:20
📒 All things are difficult before they are easy
📖Meaning
The implication is that we should be patient with learning, and with learners. It takes time to learn to do things. What seems easy to us now may have been difficult at first.
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04 июля 2024 13:19
📚let your hair down
✍🏾Meaning
If you let your hair down, you enjoy yourself by doing whatever you feel like doing and not worrying about what other people might think.
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🔸It's hard to imagine Francine letting her hair down and having fun, but Helen said she's like another person when she's not at work. She's funny and lively and she knows how to have a good time.
🔸Come on, George! It's Saturday night so why don't you stop being so serious and sensible and let your hair down for a change?
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03 июля 2024 10:30
📒figure out (1)
📖Meaning
If you figure something out, you find the solution to a problem or the answer to a question.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 To complete the puzzle, study the clues and try to figure out the solution.
💬 He soon figured out what the problem with his computer was.
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02 июля 2024 08:11
📚cook the books | cook the accounts
✍🏾Meaning
If someone cooks the books, or cooks the accounts, they keep inaccurate accounts for a business, usually in order to pay less tax.
❗️For example
🔸Their accountant was charged with cooking the books, and now he's in jail.
🔸I found this website that shows you how to cook the accounts, but I'd never try doing it.
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01 июля 2024 10:46
📒embark on
📖Meaning
to begin something, usually something that will be challenging and time-consuming
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 After quitting her job as a teacher, Sam embarked on a new career as a clothes designer.
💬 We're embarking on a campaign to encourage our young people to eat healthy food.
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30 июня 2024 07:54
📚break your heart
✍🏾Meaning
If someone breaks your heart, they cause you a lot of emotional pain by ending a romantic relationship, or by deeply hurting you in some other way.
❗️For example
🔸I loved Monty, and he broke my heart when he left me and went off with someone else.
🔸Sue says her heart has been broken too many times, and she won't let herself fall in love again.
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29 июня 2024 05:13
📒pull over
📖Meaning
If you're driving a car and you pull over, you move over to the side of the road and stop.
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💬 The taxi pulled over to pick up a passenger.
💬 When I saw the police car following me with its lights flashing, I pulled over and turned off the engine.
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27 июня 2024 19:08
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27 июня 2024 08:00
📚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.
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25 июня 2024 21:36
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25 июня 2024 12:19
📒 Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
📖Meaning
You'll be safer if you know more about your enemies than you know about your friends. Look after your enemies better than you look after your friends.
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24 июня 2024 13:57
💠 coke 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
cocaine
❕For example
🔺If you get arrested for selling coke, you'll be sent to jail.
🔺Have you seen the movie "Scarface"? It tells the story of a guy who becomes one of the biggest coke dealers in America.
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23 июня 2024 16:00
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07 июля 2024 22:43
📚kill two birds with one stone
✍🏾Meaning
If you kill two birds with one stone, you achieve two things with the one action.
❗️For example
🔸 I need to go to the bank, and if I drop the books off at the library on the way I'll be killing two birds with one stone.
🔸Jenny says that she kills two birds with one stone if she does her own housework because she gets the house clean and she gets some exercise at the same time.
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06 июля 2024 21:21
📒charge with
📖Meaning
If someone is charged with a crime, they are officially accused of committing it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The company's directors were arrested and charged with tax evasion.
💬 Even though they weren't charged with a crime, hundreds of people were kept for many years in a U.S. prison in Cuba called Guantanamo Bay.
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03 июля 2024 22:14
💠 ice (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to kill someone
❕For example
🔺Joey was iced by a mafia hit man after he stole some of their money.
🔺The informer has been protected by the police since someone threatened to ice him.
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02 июля 2024 23:02
📒 If you play with fire you get burned
📖Meaning
If you fool around with something that is potentially dangerous, you must expect to get harmed.
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01 июля 2024 20:24
💠 donkey 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a stupid or silly person
❕For example
🔺I remember breaking a window with a cricket ball while playing in our garden. My dad came out and said, "Who was the donkey who did that?"
🔺You forgot to bring your ATM card? Well, you're a donkey, aren't you?
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30 июня 2024 22:22
📒 Facts are stubborn things
📖Meaning
We cannot avoid the truth, even when it is not what we want to hear or express.
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29 июня 2024 22:04
💠 grinding 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
dancing in a sexually arousing way
❕For example
🔺When Mario and Carla starting grinding on the dance floor, the others stood back and cheered them on.
🔺Pete says the thing that drives him totally wild is when a girl pulls him close and starts grinding on him.
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27 июня 2024 19:07
📒 A stitch in time saves nine
📖Meaning
Repair something as soon as it is damaged. That's a small repair job. If not, you will have a much bigger and more expensive repair job later. Do it now and you'll need one stitch. Do it later and you'll need 9 stitches!
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26 июня 2024 09:01
💠 Mickey Finn | Mickey | mickey 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a drink to which a drug has been added to make the drinker sleepy or unconscious
❕For example
🔺Date rape has become more common since the drugs used to make Mickey Finns have been easier to get.
🔺When I was in the Philippines, some guy slipped me a mickey and robbed me.
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25 июня 2024 21:26
📒set up (3)
📖Meaning
to make the necessary arrangements for an event or activity
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We've set up a meeting with some of our biggest clients.
💬 The government agrees that a public enquiry is needed and they promised to set one up within the next few days.
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24 июня 2024 20:38
📚eat humble pie
✍🏾Meaning
If you eat humble pie, you admit that you are in the wrong and behave apologetically.
❗️For example
🔸Jim had to eat humble pie after we proved that what he'd said was wrong.
🔸Some politicians are so arrogant that they won't eat humble pie even when it's clear they've made a mistake. They just say they were "misinformed".
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23 июня 2024 20:13
📒run down (2)
📖Meaning
If you run somebody down, you criticize them and tell them they're no good.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If the manager is angry about something, he runs everyone in the office down. No matter what they do, he criticizes them.
💬 Just ignore Jenny. She runs everyone down like that when she's in a bad mood.
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23 июня 2024 12:15
📒 A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
📖Meaning
It's better to have one of something for certain than to run after two of the same thing and not be sure of getting them.
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