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19 января 2023 19:41

📚(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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18 января 2023 20:36

📒dying for



📖Meaning
If you're dying for something, you really feel like it or you want it very much.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I'm dying for a cup of tea. Let's have a break and I'll make one.

💬 After working non-stop for a month, Charles said he was dying for a day off so he could stay home and do nothing.
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17 января 2023 19:42

📚the ball's in your court



✍🏾Meaning
If someone you're negotiating with says "the ball's in your court", they think it's your turn to make a move or make an offer.


❗️For example

🔸We've offered him ten thousand dollars a month, so the ball's in his court now.

🔸They know our position, so the ball's in their court. If they want to pursue the matter, they'll have to make the next move.
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16 января 2023 20:27

📒stand by (1)



📖Meaning
If you're standing by, you're ready to do something or help somebody.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The airport's rescue team stands by around the clock in case there is a fire or a plane crash.

💬 A doctor is always standing by at the boxing stadium in case one of the fighters needs medical attention.
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15 января 2023 21:21

📚year dot | year one



✍🏾Meaning
You can say "the year dot", or "the year one", when you're talking about a very, very long time ago.


❗️For example

🔸There have been people living in Australia since the year dot, but Europeans have only been there for about two hundred years.

🔸People have been interested in the stars and the moon since the year one.
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14 января 2023 11:31

📒log in



📖Meaning
to do certain things, like typing in a username and password, in order to access an online application or a computer network

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I couldn't log in because I'd forgotten my password.

💬 If you want to post a response, you'll have to log in to the web board first.
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13 января 2023 11:44

📚go out on a limb




✍🏾Meaning
If you go out on a limb, you put yourself in a risky position in order to support someone or something.


❗️For example

🔸He knew it could damage his career, but Keith went out on a limb and said he supported the anti-war protesters.

🔸I don't think that saying you support gay rights means you're going out on a limb these days.
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12 января 2023 20:37

📒 Dying men speak true



📖Meaning
When people are about to die, they usually tell the truth.
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11 января 2023 20:08

💠 louse 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an unpleasant or nasty person


❕For example

🔺That guy Brian is such a louse. He lied to his grandmother, saying he needed money for an operation, and then bought a sportscar.

🔺You'd have to be a real louse to fire a worker because she got sick.
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10 января 2023 11:52

📒 All clouds bring not rain



📖Meaning
We can rephrase this: "Not every cloud brings rain." And that's true. Sometimes there are many clouds in the sky, but it doesn't rain. Don't judge things by appearances.
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09 января 2023 12:55

💠 fab 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
fabulous, wonderful


❕For example

🔺Harvey and Danny said they had a totally fab time at the Gay Mardi Gras in Sydney.

🔺Jenny felt better about her new outfit when her hair-stylist said she looked absolutely fab in it.
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08 января 2023 11:27

📒 Charity begins at home



📖Meaning
Our first responsibility is to our own family and friends.
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07 января 2023 11:29

💠 pimp (2) | pimp out 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to customize or renovate something; to make something flashier or more appealing


❕For example

🔺Hey, check it out! Jay's pimped his car. Let's get him to take us for a ride.

🔺I'm gonna pimp out my room in college. I'll get a coupla lamps and some pix and some other stuff to make it look cool.
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06 января 2023 10:42

📒 Dumb dogs are dangerous



📖Meaning
People who say little or nothing are more dangerous than people who speak a lot.
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05 января 2023 04:20

💠 beat box 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to create rhythmic percussive sounds with your mouth, especially when accompanying rhymes or rapping


❕For example

🔺Last year there was a guy on American Idol who was really good at beat boxing.

🔺You do the beat box stuff and I'll bust some rhymes.
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19 января 2023 04:26

📒 Necessity is the mother of invention



📖Meaning
If we absolutely need to do something that has never been done, we will find a way to do it. It is this need or necessity that forces people to invent things.
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18 января 2023 11:31

💠 bugger up 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to ruin, spoil, mess up


❕For example

🔺We used to have a healthy economy, but the banks have buggered it up by being too greedy.

🔺Ted reckons the person who buggers something up should be the one who pays the cost of fixing it.
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17 января 2023 03:35

📒 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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16 января 2023 12:29

💠 fruit 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an offensive, derogatory word for a gay man, or a male homosexual


❕For example

🔺Oscar was on the subway when some teenage boys sat near him, and one of them said, "Why you lookin' at us? You some sort of fruit, are ya?"

🔺When I was in the U.S., I saw a sticker on the back of a car that said, "Jesus hates fruits. Kill a queer for Christ." How crazy is that?
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15 января 2023 11:31

📒 What you see is what you get




📖Meaning
1) There is nothing hidden. What you are looking at is the real thing. 2) In computing, the way something displays on the screen is the way it will display in print (or other media) -- hence the acronym WYSIWYG.
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13 января 2023 21:06

💠 hot (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
stolen


❕For example

🔺It's not easy to sell a hot car. The police send out lists of stolen vehicles to car dealers.

🔺Those computers usually cost about two thousand dollars, so if you only paid five hundred, it must be hot.
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12 января 2023 21:17

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12 января 2023 13:14

📒wait around



📖Meaning
If you have to wait around for something, you have to wait a long time for it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Why do we always have to wait around when we have an appointment with a doctor or a dentist?

💬Drug addicts spend most of their time waiting around for dealers to come with the drugs they need. What a boring life it must be!
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10 января 2023 22:12

📚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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09 января 2023 20:40

📒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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08 января 2023 21:05

📚hard to come by



✍🏾Meaning
If something is hard to come by, it is difficult to find.


❗️For example

🔸A good cheap hotel is hard to come by in London these days.


🔸Good jobs in the airline industry have been hard to come by recently.
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07 января 2023 21:01

📒divide up


📖Meaning
If you divide something up, you separate it into smaller parts so that everyone gets a share.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We'll divide up any profits we make at the end of each month.

💬 If we divide the office space up into ten equal areas, we can create work stations for ten members of staff.
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06 января 2023 21:14

📚an ivory tower




✍🏾Meaning
You can say someone's in an ivory tower if they're in a place that separates them from everyday life, such as a university.


❗️For example

🔸People often complain that academics stuck in their ivory towers don't really understand the problems of the average person.

🔸Peter's dream is to get tenure in a university and spend the rest of his life hidden away in an ivory tower.
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05 января 2023 22:03

📒hand out



📖Meaning
to give something directly to a number of people

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 As the students filed into the classroom, their teacher handed out the examination booklets.


💬A couple of teenagers were standing in front of the department store handing flyers out to the people walking past.
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04 января 2023 19:56

📚a drop in the ocean




✍🏾Meaning
If an amount is a drop in the ocean, it's a very small portion of the amount that's needed.


❗️For example

🔸Our government's sending a thousand tons of food, but that's just a drop in the ocean compared to what's needed.

🔸I know twenty dollars is just a drop in the ocean, but if everyone gave that much it'd make a big difference.
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