English Language

15 мая 2023 17:31

📒keep from (1)


📖Meaning
If something or someone keeps you from doing something, it means you can't do it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Are you busy? I don't want to keep you from your work.

💬 Most parents find it very difficult to keep their kids from eating unhealthy snacks.

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14 мая 2023 07:03

📚learn the ropes


✍🏾Meaning
If you learn the ropes, you learn how to do a job properly, or how things work and how to get things done.


❗️For example

🔸Ruth will teach you what to do, and it shouldn't take you too long to learn the ropes.

🔸It can take quite a while for a new lawyer to learn the ropes in a big legal firm.
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12 мая 2023 17:31

📒see to


📖Meaning
If you see to something, you take responsibility for it and make sure it's done.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The police chief promised he'd see to it that whoever was behind the attacks would be caught and punished.

💬 That's a nasty cut. You'd better go to the hospital and have it seen to.

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11 мая 2023 17:30

📚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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11 мая 2023 05:30

📒 Soon learnt, soon forgotten



📖Meaning
Something that is easy and quick to learn is easy to forget.
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10 мая 2023 05:30

💠 empty-nester 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a parent whose children have grown up and left home


❕For example

🔺After spending many years raising their children, Kevin and Joan are now empty-nesters after their youngest daughter went to live with some friends.

🔺We're still getting used to being empty-nesters. The house seems so quiet all the time.

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08 мая 2023 17:31

📒 He who pays the piper calls the tune


📖Meaning
The person who pays a musician can decide what music he wants to hear. And the person who pays for any service has the right to say exactly what he wants.

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07 мая 2023 05:30

💠 poop 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
excrement (n.) | to defecate (v.)

❕For example

🔺Oh no! I've stepped in some smelly dog poop.

🔺We were driving home when my six year old son said, "Daddy, I need to poop ... badly."

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06 мая 2023 05:30

📒 Many a true word is spoken in jest


📖Meaning
Something said as a joke may often contain wisdom and truth.

Note: jest (noun): a joke; something said for amusement or comedy

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05 мая 2023 05:43

💠 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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04 мая 2023 17:30

📚wheeling and dealing


✍🏾Meaning
If you're wheeling and dealing, you're involved in the complex world of making deals and exchanging favours in business or politics, or both.


❗️For example

🔸You'll need to be good at wheeling and dealing if you want to do well in politics.

🔸The amount of wheeling and dealing that's needed to sort out a contract with the local government is incredible.

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03 мая 2023 17:30

📒take away


📖Meaning
If you take something away, you take it somewhere else.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The waitress took away the dirty dishes and then brought our coffee to the table.

💬 Would you like to eat your pizza here or take it away?

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02 мая 2023 17:31

📚music to your ears


✍🏾Meaning
If something is music to your ears, it's just what you want to hear.


❗️For example

🔸When Halle heard Jason say "I do" at their wedding, it was music to her ears.

🔸After I'd done my final dive, the judges all said 9.9 or 10 and the crowd cheered. It was music to my ears!

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01 мая 2023 17:30

📒come out (2)


📖Meaning
to become known

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Many people would be shocked if the truth about the so-called terrorist attacks ever came out.

💬 The full story behind his arrest might never come out.

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30 апреля 2023 05:30

📚face the music


✍🏾Meaning
If someone has to face the music, they have to accept the consequences of doing something wrong.


❗️For example

🔸To avoid facing the music and accepting his punishment for doing something bad, our little boy will tell lies with the skill of a well-trained actor.

🔸Henry stole some money and bought a car, and when he realised he'd have to face the music he drove across the border to escape.

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14 мая 2023 18:54

💠 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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13 мая 2023 17:30

📒 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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12 мая 2023 05:30

💠 KO | kayo 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a knockout, especially in boxing (n.) | to knock someone out, usually with a punch (v.)


❕For example

🔺Three of the boxers won their fights with a kayo, and the rest won on points.

🔺The fight was stopped after Tony KOed his opponent in the fourth round.

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11 мая 2023 05:44

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10 мая 2023 17:30

📒talk over


📖Meaning
to discuss a situation with someone, usually before making a decision


🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I'd like to talk it over with my family first.

💬 Before deciding whether to take the job or not, Sandra wanted to talk it over with her husband.

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09 мая 2023 17:30

📚(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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07 мая 2023 17:30

📒go after (2)


📖Meaning
to try to get something

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Are you planning to go after Alex's job when he retires?

💬 If Rupert thinks there's a chance to take over a profitable company, he'll go after it with everything he's got.

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06 мая 2023 17:30

📚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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05 мая 2023 17:30

📒insist on


📖Meaning
If you insist on something, you say that you must have it or it must be done.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We used to sell on credit, but after not being paid a few times we now insist on payment in advance.

💬Our youngest son insists on putting tomato sauce on just about everything he eats.

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04 мая 2023 06:58

📒 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak


📖Meaning
Even though we may want to say "No" to temptation (doing something bad), our body may be unable to resist it.

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03 мая 2023 05:30

💠 straight 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
heterosexual, not gay


❕For example

🔺We have two sons; Ben and James. Ben is gay and James is straight and we love them both dearly.

🔺Why do we feel we have to label people as straight or gay or whatever? Aren't human beings a bit too complicated for that?


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02 мая 2023 05:30

📒 A bad penny always turns up


📖Meaning
Bad or nasty people have a habit of showing up or returning.

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30 апреля 2023 17:30

💠 dope (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
heroin, cannabis; any illegal drug


❕For example

🔺Harry's been arrested again for buying dope.

🔺We had to send some students for counselling on the dangers of using drugs after they were caught smoking dope in the toilets.

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29 апреля 2023 17:31

📒 If you can't beat 'em, join 'em


📖Meaning
If you cannot win against someone or something, it may be easier or better to join forces with them.

Note: 'em (informal contraction) = them

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