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30 мая 2023 09:26
📚friends in high places
✍🏾Meaning
If you have friends in high places, you know people in powerful positions in business or government.
❗️For example
🔸You'll need friends in high places if you want to get to the top.
🔸Martin mightn't be the most brilliant man, but he'll do well because he's got plenty of friends in high places.
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29 мая 2023 05:30
📒 Ignorance of the law is no excuse
📖Meaning
It is no defence to say that we didn't know that something we did was illegal.
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28 мая 2023 08:58
📚a nest egg
✍🏾Meaning
If you have a nest egg, you have money put away for the future.
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🔸When Indira inherited some money from her grandpa, she didn't spend it. She decided it was time she had a nest egg so she put it into an investment fund.
🔸Poor old Bill. He married a girl while he was in some foreign country and she got her hands on his nest egg, and now he's back here - with nothing.
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27 мая 2023 05:30
📒 Better safe than sorry
📖Meaning
We should be careful in a dangerous situation. It is better to stay safe than to have an accident (and be sorry about it). The full "grammatical" sentence would be: "It is better to be safe than to be sorry."
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26 мая 2023 11:24
📚give the green light
✍🏾Meaning
If you give something the green light, you give permission for it to be done, or allow it to happen.
❗️For example
🔸The government has given the green light to our tree-planting project, so we can go ahead and start organizing things.
🔸As soon as our CEO gives the new product the green light, we'll start planning production.
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24 мая 2023 17:30
📒keep up (2)
📖Meaning
If you keep up with someone, you stay at the same level and don't fall behind them.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Rafael can run very fast. When we go running together, it's hard for me to keep up.
💬 Jimmy takes a long time to learn new things, and sometimes he can't keep up with other kids in his class.
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23 мая 2023 17:30
💠 take 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
stolen money or goods
❕For example
🔺The take from the bank robbery was about ten thousand dollars.
🔺The cops have caught the thieves, but they're still looking for the take.
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22 мая 2023 17:30
📒read into
📖Meaning
to believe you've found more meaning in what someone says or does than others have found
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 You're reading too much into what he said. I don't think he meant to insult you.
💬 A lot can be read into what someone says, but it doesn't mean that it's all true.
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21 мая 2023 17:30
💠 zip (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
nothing, zero
❕For example
🔺Most people around here don't know zip about economics, but they know when things aren't going too well.
🔺The final score was three goals to zip.
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20 мая 2023 17:30
📒level with
📖Meaning
If you level with someone, you tell them the truth about something.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Why won't you level with me and tell me what's really going on?
💬 I'll level with you, Heather. My brother's a lovely guy, but he's got a problem with gambling.
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19 мая 2023 17:30
💠 hooked 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
addicted, obsessed
❕For example
🔺Nobody who uses hard drugs like heroin or cocaine thinks they'll ever get hooked, but many do, and it can ruin their life.
🔺My son realised he was hooked on video games when he stayed up all night playing them, and then failed an important exam.
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17 мая 2023 19:26
📚a voice (crying) in the wilderness
✍🏾Meaning
You're a voice in the wilderness, or a voice crying in the wilderness, if you're expressing an unpopular opinion or insight.
❗️For example
🔸When Galileo stated that the sun was the centre of the solar system, he was a voice crying in the wilderness. Most people thought he was crazy or evil, or possibly both.
🔸Clara says petrol engines should be banned because of the damage they cause to the environment. She says most people laugh when she says this, and she feels like a voice in the wilderness.
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16 мая 2023 18:23
📚wide of the mark
✍🏾Meaning
If something is wide of the mark, it isn't true or accurate, or it misses the target.
❗️For example
🔸The manager expected sales to double this year, but his prediction was wide of the mark. They only increased by ten per cent.
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29 мая 2023 17:30
💠 tight-ass 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
1) sby who spends as little money as possible, a miser
2) sby who's repressed and very strict about following society's rules
❕For example
🔺Our boss is a real tight-ass; we never get a Christmas bonus.
🔺Don't be such a tight-ass, Rob. Let yourself have some fun for a change.
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28 мая 2023 17:30
📒pull in
📖Meaning
If a train, a truck or a car pulls in, it arrives somewhere.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The train you want will be pulling in on platform 9.
💬 A truck pulled in to the yard and the driver jumped out.
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27 мая 2023 17:30
💠 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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26 мая 2023 17:30
📒run on (1)
📖Meaning
to use a particular type of fuel or a particular power source
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Why did it take so long for the big car companies to develop and market cars that run on electricity instead of fossil fuels?
💬 My new mobile phone runs on a battery that lasts for a month before it needs recharging.
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25 мая 2023 17:30
💠 upbeat 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
bright, cheerful
❕For example
🔺The convention should have a lively, upbeat mood, so we need to start off with some upbeat music and an uplifting speech.
🔺The movie tells an upbeat story about starting a new life in a new country and finding love and happiness there.
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25 мая 2023 09:49
📒 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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24 мая 2023 05:30
📚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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23 мая 2023 11:35
📒 Opportunity seldom knocks twice
📖Meaning
Take any opportunity or chance when it comes - it may not come again.
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22 мая 2023 05:31
📚read between the lines
✍🏾Meaning
When you read between the lines you try to understand what someone implies, but doesn't openly state, when they say or write something.
❗️For example
🔸I got a letter from Robyn and she isn't happy. She didn't say anything but I could tell by reading between the lines that something's wrong.
🔸A good writer doesn't tell the reader everything directly but leaves it up to the reader to figure things out for themselves by reading between the lines.
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21 мая 2023 05:30
📒 Brevity is the soul of wit
📖Meaning
The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.
Note: brevity (noun): shortness of time; use of few but exact words | soul (noun): the spiritual part of something; the essence of something | wit (noun): lively, keen intelligence; ability to use words creatively and for humour
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20 мая 2023 05:30
📚keep an eye on
✍🏾Meaning
If you keep an eye on someone, you make sure you know what they're doing.
❗️For example
🔸I'm a bit worried about Hannah's health so could you keep an eye on her while I'm away.
🔸The media has promised to keep an eye on the new government and report anything that seems suspicious.
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18 мая 2023 17:30
📒 Variety is the spice of life
📖Meaning
Monotony is bad for us. We need plenty of change. It adds interest to our lives, just as spice adds interest to food.
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18 мая 2023 05:30
📒knock back (1)
📖Meaning
to take a drink, usually alcoholic
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Every day after work, Steve and his mates knock back a few beers.
💬 The bartender poured Amy a whisky soda and she knocked it back and asked for another one.
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17 мая 2023 09:01
💠 meathead 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a stupid person
❕For example
🔺How did a meathead like that guy get elected to represent the people in his state?
🔺I was watching the tennis yesterday and some meathead yelled out just as Rafael was serving. The security guys found him and threw him out.
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16 мая 2023 08:15
📒 The greater the sinner, the greater the saint
📖Meaning
1) If a bad person can become good, a very bad person can become very good. Someone with great energy for doing bad, may, when he chooses, apply it equally to doing good.
2) Converts are the most zealous. In a day-to-day sense, for example, someone who has given up smoking may preach more about the virtues of not smoking than someone who never smoked.
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