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31 марта 2023 17:30
📒bring about
📖Meaning
If you bring about something, you cause it to happen or you make it happen.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The greed of a few people in the financial world brought about the global financial crisis.
💬 The president wanted reform of the healthcare system but he wasn't sure how to bring it about.
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30 марта 2023 17:30
📚nerves of steel
✍🏾Meaning
If you have nerves of steel, you are very brave and not many things make you scared or nervous.
❗️For example
🔸I could never work on one of those high-rise building sites where you walk along beams about twenty stories up. You'd need nerves of steel to do that job.
🔸Those people who sing the national anthem before one of those big sporting events must have nerves of steel.
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29 марта 2023 05:31
💠 eye-popping 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
amazingly large or impressive
❕For example
🔺Last year Microsoft made an eye-popping twenty billion dollars.
🔺The opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics was such an eye-popping spectacle.
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28 марта 2023 05:30
📒 Neither a borrower nor a lender be
📖Meaning
Do not borrow things. Do not lend things.
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27 марта 2023 05:36
💠 sharp 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
well-dressed
❕For example
🔺Bernie looks real sharp in his new suit.
🔺If Glen spent a bit more on clothes, he could look really sharp.
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26 марта 2023 05:30
📒 Rules are made to be broken
📖Meaning
This saying implies that there are times when we should think for ourselves and not obey every rule blindly.
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25 марта 2023 04:30
💠 racket (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a dishonest or illegal activity that makes money
❕For example
🔺The mafia has been running a protection racket in our neighbourhood for at least eighty years.
🔺A gang that runs a people-smuggling racket has been busted by the federal police.
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24 марта 2023 04:30
📒 Nothing is impossible to a willing heart
📖Meaning
Someone who is eager, keen and determined can achieve anything.
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22 марта 2023 16:30
📚elbow grease
✍🏾Meaning
If something needs elbow grease, it needs a lot of hard physical work.
❗️For example
🔸We'll need a bit more elbow grease to get these walls really clean.
🔸The secret of a really shiny car is turtle wax and elbow grease.
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21 марта 2023 16:31
📒run away (1)
📖Meaning
If you run away from something or someone, you run as fast as you can to escape.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 As soon as he heard the sound of the police car coming, Benny ran away so that the cops wouldn't catch him.
💬While I was coming home a dog growled and barked at me, but it ran away after I yelled at it.
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20 марта 2023 16:30
📚dressed (up) to the nines
✍🏾Meaning
If you are dressed to the nines, or dressed up to the nines, you are wearing very smart clothes for a special occasion.
❗️For example
🔸Have you seen Harry? He's dressed to the nines and he looks amazing.
🔸Everyone was dressed up to the nines for the Academy Awards, with the men in tuxedos and the women in evening gowns.
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19 марта 2023 16:30
📒kick off (2)
📖Meaning
to force someone to leave something like a team or a committee
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Anyone who is caught using performance-enhancing drugs will be kicked off the team.
💬 When they saw the evidence, they kicked Dan off the committee for accepting bribes.
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10 марта 2023 05:35
🆎What is your English level⁉️
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31 марта 2023 05:30
💠 ratty (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
easily annoyed or upset, irritable
❕For example
🔺Laura got drunk last night, and now she's got a hangover and she feels a bit ratty.
🔺I had a really bad day at work today, so sorry if I seem a little ratty tonight.
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30 марта 2023 05:30
📒 The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
📖Meaning
Many women have won a man's love by cooking delicious meals for him. They fed his stomach and found love in his heart.
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29 марта 2023 17:31
📒patch up (2)
📖Meaning
to mend ties or repair a relationship after a disagreement or a dispute
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My sister and her husband argue a lot, but they always patch things up before long.
💬 The leaders of the two countries patched up their differences and avoided a war.
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28 марта 2023 17:30
📚quite a bit of | quite a lot of
✍🏾Meaning
If you've got quite a bit of something, or quite a lot of something, you have a fairly large amount of it.
❗️For example
🔸George made quite a bit of money in his first business, but instead of retiring young, he went on to make quite a lot more.
🔸If you want to learn to play the piano, you'll need to spend quite a lot of money on lessons, and spend quite a bit of time practising.
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27 марта 2023 17:30
📒rule out
📖Meaning
If you rule something out, you don't think it's possible.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Sally will probably win, but don't rule out Carol. She's got a good chance too.
💬 We thought she might have cancer, but after seeing the latest test results, I think we can rule that out.
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26 марта 2023 17:30
📚bite your tongue | hold your tongue
✍🏾Meaning
If you bite your tongue, or hold your tongue, you force yourself not to say something you really want to say.
❗️For example
🔸I wanted to tell Carlos he was being stupid, but I bit my tongue and just sat there.
🔸You're going to have to learn to hold your tongue instead of saying whatever comes into your head.
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25 марта 2023 16:30
📒put forward (1)
📖Meaning
to offer an idea, an opinion, a suggestion, etc. for other people to consider
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 He put forward an interesting argument, but no-one was really convinced by it.
💬 If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to put them forward and they'll be given our full consideration.
💬 Many of the suggestions that have been put forward are excellent.
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24 марта 2023 16:30
📚around the clock
✍🏾Meaning
If something occurs around the clock, it goes on all day and all night.
❗️For example
🔸I have to finish this report by Tuesday, so I'll be working around the clock until I get it done.
🔸What the young people of this town need is a drop-in centre that's open around the clock.
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23 марта 2023 16:30
📒leave up to
📖Meaning
If you leave something up to someone, you let them do it or you give them responsibility for it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We need to upgrade our computer network, and Harry is our computer expert so we'll leave it up to him.
💬 We'll leave it up to the accountant to decide how to invest the money.
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23 марта 2023 04:30
💠 out (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to be openly gay
❕For example
🔺Clive is one of the few gay sportsmen with the courage to be out. Most still try to keep their sexuality a secret.
🔺When I was seventeen, I told my family I was gay and I'm glad I came out when I did.
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22 марта 2023 04:30
📒 Graves are of all sizes
📖Meaning
People die at all ages; no one is too young to die.
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21 марта 2023 04:30
💠 bling 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
flashy jewellery worn to create the impression of wealth
❕For example
🔺Check out all the bling around that guy's neck. It must weigh a ton!
🔺Most people have gold bling or silver bling, but they don't usually mix it up.
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20 марта 2023 04:30
📒 A watched pot never boils
📖Meaning
If you want to heat water until it boils, and you watch it while you wait, then it seems to take a very long time. In the same way, anything that we wait for with eager attention seems to take a very long time: like waiting for someone to arrive, waiting for the phone to ring, waiting for a letter to come.
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19 марта 2023 12:30
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02 марта 2023 16:30
💠 funk 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
(in phrase be in a funk) an unhappy, depressed mood
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🔺He's been in a real funk since his girlfriend left him.
🔺Everyone in the office has been in a funk since we heard that our company might be going bankrupt.
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