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28 января 2023 20:05

💠 ace (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
very skillful, very good at something


❕For example

🔺My little brother was never interested in sports when he was young, but now he's an ace basketball player.

🔺If you want to be an ace fighter, you should learn hand-to-hand combat skills like karate or Muay Thai.
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27 января 2023 17:52

📒 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys



📖Meaning
An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.

Note: peanut (noun) = a seed like a hard pea, typically eaten by monkeys | peanuts (noun) = a very small sum of money |
pay peanuts (verb) = pay very low wages | monkey (noun) = a small to medium-sized, human-like animal living in trees in tropical countries
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26 января 2023 04:28

💠 jailbait 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
someone below the legal age of consent


❕For example

🔺He claims he had no idea the girl was jailbait, and insists that she told him she was nineteen years old.

🔺One of the greatest novels in the English language is about a man who falls for a girl even though he knows she's jailbait. It's called "Lolita".
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25 января 2023 04:15

📒 Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again


📖Meaning
From this moment in time you will never be any younger than you are now. (“flow” of time doesn't reverse as of now). At the same time, you are older than you have ever been in your life.
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24 января 2023 10:47

💠 kook 🇺🇸


✍🏾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.
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23 января 2023 14:13

📒 Opportunity seldom knocks twice



📖Meaning
Take any opportunity or chance when it comes - it may not come again.
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22 января 2023 11:49

💠 gasbag 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a person who talks too much


❕For example

🔺Are you sure we should invite Betty? She's such a gasbag that no-one else will have a chance to say anything.

🔺My wife's friend Gillian is such a gasbag. I swear, from the moment she arrives until the moment she leaves, she talks non-stop.
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21 января 2023 04:34

📒 Death is a remedy for all ills



📖Meaning
When we die, all our problems are solved.
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20 января 2023 09:36

💠 can (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to reject or criticize something or someone


❕For example

🔺The show's ratings were so bad that the network canned it after just a few episodes.

🔺The English media cans the national football team whenever they lose a game.
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19 января 2023 04:26

📒 Necessity is the mother of invention



📖Meaning
If we absolutely need to do something that has never been done, we will find a way to do it. It is this need or necessity that forces people to invent things.
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18 января 2023 11:31

💠 bugger up 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to ruin, spoil, mess up


❕For example

🔺We used to have a healthy economy, but the banks have buggered it up by being too greedy.

🔺Ted reckons the person who buggers something up should be the one who pays the cost of fixing it.
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17 января 2023 03:35

📒 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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16 января 2023 12:29

💠 fruit 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an offensive, derogatory word for a gay man, or a male homosexual


❕For example

🔺Oscar was on the subway when some teenage boys sat near him, and one of them said, "Why you lookin' at us? You some sort of fruit, are ya?"

🔺When I was in the U.S., I saw a sticker on the back of a car that said, "Jesus hates fruits. Kill a queer for Christ." How crazy is that?
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15 января 2023 11:31

📒 What you see is what you get




📖Meaning
1) There is nothing hidden. What you are looking at is the real thing. 2) In computing, the way something displays on the screen is the way it will display in print (or other media) -- hence the acronym WYSIWYG.
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13 января 2023 21:06

💠 hot (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
stolen


❕For example

🔺It's not easy to sell a hot car. The police send out lists of stolen vehicles to car dealers.

🔺Those computers usually cost about two thousand dollars, so if you only paid five hundred, it must be hot.
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28 января 2023 12:35

📚another string to your bow



✍🏾Meaning
If you have another string to your bow, you have another way of making a living.


❗️For example

🔸Lots of people learn to teach English so they'll have another string to their bow.

🔸I've lost my job and I'll have to retrain for something else. I wish I already had another string to my bow.
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26 января 2023 20:55

📒slip up



📖Meaning
to make a small mistake, usually because of carelessness

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I'm usually pretty reliable, but sometimes I slip up, like everybody.


💬If our goalkeeper hadn't slipped up, we would have won the match.
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25 января 2023 18:55

📚get your act together


✍🏾Meaning
If you get your act together, you greatly improve your attitude and performance in relation to something such as your work, or to life in general.


❗️For example

🔸You're in your thirties now, so it's time you got your act together and started behaving like a mature adult.

🔸Terry is trying to get his act together and do better in all aspects of his life.
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24 января 2023 22:10

📒drop in



📖Meaning
If you drop something in somewhere, you stop to leave it there and then keep going.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 If you're going past the post office, could you drop these letters in for me?

💬 I'll drop the report in on my way to the office
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23 января 2023 21:13

📚a raw deal



✍🏾Meaning
If you think that you got a raw deal, you think you weren't treated fairly or as well as other people.


❗️For example

🔸Doctors in small hospitals in country towns get a raw deal. They earn less, and usually work longer hours, than doctors in big-city hospitals.

🔸If it wasn't for the transport workers union, drivers would still be getting low wages and a raw deal all round.
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22 января 2023 21:41

📒take off (3)


📖Meaning
to have a period of time away from work

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 My doctor says I need to take the week off and rest.

💬 Ted needs to take a few days off work to be with his wife and newborn baby.
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21 января 2023 22:32

📚steer clear of



✍🏾Meaning
If you steer clear of something, you don't go near it because it could harm you or cause you a problem.


❗️For example

🔸My doctor said I should steer clear of spicy foods until I feel better.

🔸I'd steer clear of that guy if I were you. He's a bit crazy and he's always looking for a fight with someone.
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20 января 2023 20:12

📒 get together



📖Meaning
to meet and spend time together

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  All the neighbours get together on Christmas morning for their annual Christmas "block party".

💬 Every Saturday night we get together with some friends and have dinner in a restaurant.
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19 января 2023 19:41

📚(your) hands are tied




✍🏾Meaning
You can say your hands are tied if you're prevented from doing something that you'd normally have the power or the authority to do.


❗️For example

🔸The president says he'd like to spend more on schools in poor districts, but says his hands are tied by what he calls "budgetary restrictions".


🔸I'd really like to give you the contract, Mr Gambino, but my hands are tied because of those laws on giving contracts to people with criminal records.
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18 января 2023 20:36

📒dying for



📖Meaning
If you're dying for something, you really feel like it or you want it very much.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I'm dying for a cup of tea. Let's have a break and I'll make one.

💬 After working non-stop for a month, Charles said he was dying for a day off so he could stay home and do nothing.
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17 января 2023 19:42

📚the ball's in your court



✍🏾Meaning
If someone you're negotiating with says "the ball's in your court", they think it's your turn to make a move or make an offer.


❗️For example

🔸We've offered him ten thousand dollars a month, so the ball's in his court now.

🔸They know our position, so the ball's in their court. If they want to pursue the matter, they'll have to make the next move.
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16 января 2023 20:27

📒stand by (1)



📖Meaning
If you're standing by, you're ready to do something or help somebody.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The airport's rescue team stands by around the clock in case there is a fire or a plane crash.

💬 A doctor is always standing by at the boxing stadium in case one of the fighters needs medical attention.
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15 января 2023 21:21

📚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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14 января 2023 11:31

📒log in



📖Meaning
to do certain things, like typing in a username and password, in order to access an online application or a computer network

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I couldn't log in because I'd forgotten my password.

💬 If you want to post a response, you'll have to log in to the web board first.
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13 января 2023 11:44

📚go out on a limb




✍🏾Meaning
If you go out on a limb, you put yourself in a risky position in order to support someone or something.


❗️For example

🔸He knew it could damage his career, but Keith went out on a limb and said he supported the anti-war protesters.

🔸I don't think that saying you support gay rights means you're going out on a limb these days.
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