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12 октября 2024 11:06
💠 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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10 октября 2024 10:04
📒sign in
📖Meaning
to sign a register when you visit a place, or to log in when you visit a website
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Don't forget to sign in when you get to the office in the morning.
💬 If you want to upload a picture to your EnglishClub page, you'll have to sign in first.
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09 октября 2024 12:49
📚let the cat out of the bag
✍🏾Meaning
If you let the cat out of the bag, you let someone know a secret.
❗️For example
🔸We'd planned a surprise party for Donna, but some guy she works with let the cat out of the bag, so now she knows.
🔸Don't forget that this is a secret, so whatever you do, don't let the cat out of the bag.
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08 октября 2024 12:21
📒dig up
📖Meaning
If you dig up something, you get it from under the ground by digging.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The police dug up the murder victim's body and took it away for examination.
💬 My dog loves digging up bones that I bury in the garden for him.
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07 октября 2024 13:40
📚time and time again
✍🏾Meaning
If you've done something time and time again, you've done it many times, or you've done it repeatedly.
❗️For example
🔸I've told Terry time and time again not to call me before ten in the morning, but he still does it!
🔸We love that restaurant. We've been there time and time again and we still like going there.
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06 октября 2024 10:59
📒round down
📖Meaning
If you round a number or an amount down to a certain level such as a whole number or the nearest dollar, you bring it down to that level.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Can we round the amounts down to the nearest dollar, so that $16.25, for example, is changed to $16.00?
💬 Are you sure she remembered to round down all the numbers?
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05 октября 2024 11:16
📚vice versa
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "vice versa" when what you have just said is also true in the opposite, or reverse, order.
❗️For example
🔸He doesn't believe anything she says, and vice versa. They really don't trust each other.
🔸During the cold war, the Americans tried to spy on the Russians, and vice versa.
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03 октября 2024 08:55
💠 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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02 октября 2024 11:20
📒Rome wasn't built in a day
📖Meaning
All things take time to create. And great things like the city of Rome take a very long time. So we shouldn't expect to accomplish something or achieve success immediately.
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01 октября 2024 13:18
💠 mosh pit 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an area in front of the stage at a rock concert where people dance energetically, or "mosh"
❕For example
🔺The best concert I've ever been to was a Nirvana gig in the early nineties when Kurt Cobain jumped into the mosh pit.
🔺 Keep an eye on the kids in the mosh pit in case any of them faints or gets hurt.
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30 сентября 2024 10:26
📒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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29 сентября 2024 13:23
💠 hang | hang out 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to spend time with
❕For example
🔺I'm goin' down the park to hang with my friends.
🔺 Hey, you girls. Why don't you hang out with me and the guys for a while?
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28 сентября 2024 14:03
📒 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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26 сентября 2024 13:27
📚(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.
❗️For example
🔸 Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.
🔸The police force had egg on its face because they arrested and beat up an innocent guy who had the same name as a suspect they were looking for.
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24 сентября 2024 20:04
📒factor in
📖Meaning
to include a certain item when calculating or planning something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Don't forget to factor in transport costs when you make the quotation.
💬 You need to factor the political situation in when deciding on a country to invest in.
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09 октября 2024 21:04
📒Where there's a will there's a way
📖Meaning
If we have the determination to do something, we can always find the path or method to do it.
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08 октября 2024 21:54
💠 intro 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
introduction
❕For example
🔺When you read the book, don't skip the intro. It gives a lot of useful background information.
🔺 What did you think of the intro to the song? Do you think it went on too long, or was it just about right?
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07 октября 2024 21:08
📒Death pays all debts
📖Meaning
Dying cancels everything, including anything that we owe to other people.
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06 октября 2024 21:27
💠 yob | yobbo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an aggressive, impolite, crude person
❕For example
🔺Be careful if you go to a pub on Friday or Saturday night. The yobs will be out and lots of them will be looking for a fight.
🔺 Lots of yobbos travel to places like Spain and Greece and get drunk, behave badly, and damage the image of Britain and the British.
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05 октября 2024 21:16
📒Waste not, want not
📖Meaning
If we do not waste things we will not be short of things. If we use our resources carefully, we shall never be in need.
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02 октября 2024 21:12
📒get away with
📖Meaning
to do something illegal or immoral and not get caught or punished
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Janet got away with shoplifting clothes the first few times, but she soon got caught and now she's stuck with a police record for the rest of her life.
💬 Bobby nearly got away with the robbery, but he spent the money too quickly and local police who knew him got suspicious.
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01 октября 2024 20:26
📚chickens come home to roost
✍🏾Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.
❗️For example
🔸Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.
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30 сентября 2024 21:43
📒follow through
📖Meaning
to continue something to the next stage, or to complete something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We saw hundreds of protesters marching on government house.
💬 Why don't you come and join us as we march on the headquarters of the World Bank?
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29 сентября 2024 22:43
📚save the day
✍🏾Meaning
If you save the day, you do something to ensure success or to solve a serious problem.
❗️For example
🔸It looked like we were going to lose the game, but Ronaldo saved the day by kicking two late goals.
🔸 Then a guy rides in on a white horse and saves the day by killing the bad guys and rescuing the girl.
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28 сентября 2024 20:27
📒iron out
📖Meaning
If you iron out the last details of a deal, you sort out the final problems or issues.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If we have any differences or issues, we'll have to iron them out before we sign a deal.
💬 Ronaldo's manager and the club are ironing out a couple of final issues, but they should have everything sorted out soon.
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💠 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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24 сентября 2024 11:26
📒 The road to hell is paved with good intentions
📖Meaning
1) People who believe they are doing good can end up doing bad (the law of unintended consequences). 2) There is no value in simply planning to do good if you don't actually do it.
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