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18 ноября 2017 19:36

Idiom of the Day

📗a recipe for disaster

☑️Meaning: Something is a recipe for disaster if it's going to cause trouble or serious problems.

🎗For example:

🔹Inviting my mother-in-law to stay for a week is a recipe for disaster. I'll end up arguing with her, and then my wife and I will quarrel and then the kids will get upset. It's a bad idea!

🔹Eating too much, not exercising enough, and being under stress is a recipe for disaster. You'll end up overweight and you'll probably die young.
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16 ноября 2017 15:37

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14 ноября 2017 16:01

Slang of the Day

💥klutz
🇺🇸American and 🇦🇺Australian English Offensive

💢Meaning: a clumsy or foolish person

❗️For example:

🔺Why did you tell Barney to pick up the glassware? He's a klutz so he'd be bound to break something.

🔺All he had to do was catch a simple pop-up and we would've won the Baseball World Series. But he dropped it! What a klutz!

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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13 ноября 2017 19:05

Slang of the Day

💥armpit

☑️Meaning: a very unpleasant place

📌For example:

🔹This town is smelly, dirty, ugly and hot. No wonder it's called the armpit of America.

🔹Gerry reckons the town he was born in is the armpit of the universe, but it can't be that bad.
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11 ноября 2017 15:41

Slang of the Day

💥zing

💢Meaning: energy, liveliness

❗️For example:

🔺Liz is a great performer and she should bring a lot of zing to the show.

🔺The team needs a player who can add some zing to the attacking moves.
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07 ноября 2017 18:10

Slang of the Day

💥rap sheet
🇺🇸American English

💢Meaning: a criminal record

❗️For example:

🔺Tommy's always getting into trouble with the police. He's got a rap sheet a mile long.

🔺No-one needs to know about your rap sheet. Just keep it a secret.

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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04 ноября 2017 14:50

Slang of the Day

💥 ute
🇦🇺 Australian English

💢Meaning: a pickup truck

❗️For example:

▪️After shooting two kangaroos, Bruce threw them into the back of his ute and drove back to town.

▪️Nearly every farmer in Australia owns a ute.

🗨Origin: short for "utility" or "utility vehicle"

🔍Variety: This slang term is typically used in Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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01 ноября 2017 18:11

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30 октября 2017 16:02

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30 октября 2017 15:13

Slang of the Day

💥Loan shark

💢Meaning: an unauthorised moneylender who charges very high interest rates

❗️For example:

▪️It's usually poor people who have to borrow from loan sharks because banks won't give them loans.

▪️Pierre had to go to hospital after he was beaten up because he didn't pay money back to a loan shark in time.
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27 октября 2017 16:40

Slang of the Day

💥unglued

Ⓜ️eaning:

🔜mentally confused and emotionally strained

❗️For example:

🔺After being under stress for a few weeks, Bob was coming unglued and starting to make serious mistakes.

🔺Angela has been coming unglued ever since her boyfriend ran off with her sister.
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24 октября 2017 16:25

Slang of the Day

📌jerk
Offensive

💢Meaning:

a stupid person

❗️For example:

🔺Ted was being a real jerk at the party. He was hitting on all the girls, even if their boyfriends were right there with them.

🔺He's usually a nice guy, but if he drinks too much alcohol he turns into a jerk.
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21 октября 2017 16:26

Slang of the Day

🔰bent

💢Meaning:

🔜dishonest, corrupt

❗️For example:

🔺We always knew those cops were bent, but we've never had the evidence to prove it.

🔺Even though she'd been cheating on her taxes for years, Cathy didn't consider herself bent. She said everybody did it.
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17 октября 2017 13:48

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16 октября 2017 00:50

Idiom of the Day

🔰go over big /ˈgoʊ ˈoʊvɚ ˈbɪg/
✔️ definition of GO OVER BIG
❗️informal
💢: to be successful or well-liked

❕For example:
🔺Here's a recipe for healthy cookies that always goes over big with kids. [=that children like a lot]
🔺The pie went over big with the guests.

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18 ноября 2017 15:32

Slang of the Day

💥kook

🇺🇸American English
✍🏾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.

🗨Variety: This is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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16 ноября 2017 15:23

Idiom of the Day

💥Eye-catching
✍🏾tending to attract attention, visually attractive, striking

📌Examples:

▪️There were lots of eye-catching posters at the entrance of the cinema.
▪️Her dress was so eye-catching that we couldn’t do anything but stare at her for minutes.
▪️I’m looking forward to hearing from you! Let me know if this lesson was useful!
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13 ноября 2017 19:09

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13 ноября 2017 14:35

Idiom of the Day

💥under lock and key

💢Meaning: If something is under lock and key, it is kept in a very secure place.

❗️For example:

🔺Make sure these documents are under lock and key until we need them.

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09 ноября 2017 16:39

Idiom of the Day

💥down to earth

Ⓜ️eaning: If someone is down to earth, they are practical and sensible.

❗️For example:

🔺Steven is an artist and a real dreamer, but luckily his wife Sarah is down to earth, so she takes care of their day-to-day lives.

🔺We need someone who can come up with practical, down-to-earth ideas that we can work with in the real world.
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06 ноября 2017 15:02

Idiom of the Day

🔰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.

🔺The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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03 ноября 2017 15:35

Idiom of the Day

💥pay a call/visit ⬅️/ˈpeɪ ə ˈvɪzət/

💢Meaning: to go somewhere to visit someone

🔺She paid me a visit [=she came to visit me] while I was in the hospital. = She paid a call on me while I was in the hospital.

🔺The family decided to pay a visit to their friend.
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01 ноября 2017 15:00

Slang of the Day

🔰junk

💢Meaning: a dangerous drug, especially an opiate like heroin or morphine

❗️For example:

🔺Pat was caught by the cops with some junk in his pocket.

🔺Kerry's been trying to get off junk for years, but she's still addicted.
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30 октября 2017 16:01

Idiom of the Day

📚in a bind | fix | jam

📝Meaning: If someone is in a bind, or in a jam, or in a fix, they're in a bad or difficult situation.

❗️For example:

🔺Jimmy's in a bind because he owes a lot of money to some mafia guys, and he hasn't got it.

🔺If you ever get into a fix, let me know and I'll do what I can to help you out.
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28 октября 2017 17:34

Idiom of the Day

🔰junk food

💢Meaning:

Food that is bad for us because it contains large amounts of harmful substances like artificial colouring, preservatives, salt, refined sugar, and so on.

❗️For example:

🔺No wonder people in Western societies are so unhealthy, overweight and unattractive. Have you seen the sort of junk food they're addicted to?

🔺Food companies spend millions developing and advertising junk foods that make us fat, sick and ugly because the profits from this sort of food are far greater than the profits made by selling healthy foods.

💥Note: The idiom "junk food" normally refers to factory-produced foods that have a lot of damaging additives, such as hotdogs and frozen pizzas, or fried foods like hamburgers and french fries, or sugary sweets and fizzy drinks like candy bars and cola drinks.

🗨Origin: Probably related to the fact that junk is something useless and of no value, and this is a good description of the foods that are called junk foods.
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26 октября 2017 04:59

Idiom of the Day

📚(your) heart isn't in it

💢Meaning: If your heart isn't in something you're doing, you don't really want to do it.

❗️For example:

🔺Ali was studying to be a doctor, but his heart wasn't in it so he decided to follow his real dream and study film-making instead.

🔺We could tell that Sally's heart wasn't in it when she tried singing jazz, so we said she should stick to pop songs.
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23 октября 2017 15:57

Idiom of the Day

💥let off steam

☑️Meaning: If you let off steam, you do something to release pent-up emotion or energy.

💡For example:

🔺After sitting quietly in class all morning, kids need time to let off steam in the playground before going back to class in the afternoon.

🔺It'd be good to have a punching bag somewhere in the office so we could let off steam whenever we get a bit angry or frustrated.

✍🏾Note: To "blow off steam" has the same meaning.

🗨Origin: This idiom probably comes from the fact that boiling water produces steam which creates high pressure that will cause an explosion if it isn't released somehow.
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19 октября 2017 13:51

Idiom of the Day

💥middle-of-the-road

Ⓜ️eaning:
✍🏾If something is middle-of-the-road, it'll appeal to the majority of people and not be radical or challenging.

❗️For example:

🔺My daughter says most of the music I like is boring, middle-of-the-road stuff that's only good for putting you to sleep.

🔺Most political parties are middle-of-the-road these days, and it's hard to find any real differences in their policies.
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17 октября 2017 00:00

Slang of the Day

🔰Yo!
🇺🇸American English

Ⓜ️eaning: a greeting, like "Hey!"

❗️For example:

🔺"Yo, Jerome! What's up bro?"

🔺I was walking along the street when I heard this kid yell "Yo, Mikey! What's happenin' man?"

💥Note: "Yo!" is used mostly by African-Americans, or by people who are influenced by African-American culture and style.

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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16 октября 2017 00:45

Phrase of the day

📒I can't put my finger on it📒

📝We use this expression to say that we can't explain or fully understand something.

Written: ✖️Spoken: ✔️Formal: ✖️Informal: ✔️

💥Example1️⃣
🅰️She looks different, doesn't she?
🅱️Yes, I can't put my finger on it. Has she changed her hair?

💥Example 2️⃣
🅰️Why don't you like Sam?
🅱️I don't know. I can't put my finger on it. I just feel we can't trust him.
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