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28 октября 2022 21:01

📒 He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea



📖Meaning
The sea is supremely powerful, and can be a terrifying and awe-inspiring place.

✍Note
pray (verb) = ask for help from God; give thanks to God | This saying may be more easily understood if rephrased as: "The person that wants to learn to pray should go to sea."

🌟Origin
This quotation from Welsh poet George Herbert (1593 - 1633) - "He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea" - reflects seafarers' long-standing conviction that at sea we find the ultimate in awe and terror.
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27 октября 2022 05:59

💠 jab 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an injection with a hypodermic syringe


❕For example

🔺I went to see my doctor yesterday to get a flu jab.

🔺It's time for our kids to get another set of vaccination jabs. I'll take them to the clinic in the morning.
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26 октября 2022 05:05

📒 None so blind as those who will not see




📖Meaning
Nobody is blinder than the person who decides he does not want to see. Often used in reference to prejudice and intolerance.

✍Note
none (pronoun): no person; no one | blind (adj.): unable to see; not having the power of sight | will (verb): intend; desire [this is "will" used as a main verb, not as a modal auxiliary verb] | Also: "There's none so blind as those who will not see."
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24 октября 2022 22:16

💠 uptight 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
tense, anxious


❕For example

🔺Why is Eddie so uptight all the time? It's like he's got all this anger and fear stuck inside and he can't let it out.

🔺Jane's one of those uptight people who make you feel uncomfortable just by being around them.
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23 октября 2022 22:03

📒 If you play with fire you get burned




📖Meaning
If you fool around with something that is potentially dangerous, you must expect to get harmed.

✍Note
get burned (verb) = be injured or wounded by heat or flames from a fire (also "get burnt")
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22 октября 2022 21:18

💠 hang-up 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an emotional problem causing inhibition or unreasonable behaviour


❕For example

🔺My sister Tanya's got a hang-up about her weight, and she's not even fat!

🔺Doug's got a hang-up about his age, and he thinks he's too old to find a new partner even though he doesn't like being single.
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27 января 2018 13:32

Idiom of the Day

🔰off the cuff

✍🏾Meaning:
If you speak off the cuff, you speak without planning what you will say beforehand.

🔹For example:

🔺She wasn't expecting to win, so she hadn't prepared a speech, but she still managed to say a few words off the cuff after being given the award.

🔺The prime minister keeps making off-the-cuff remarks that get him into trouble.

💢Note: When used to modify a noun or a noun phrase, this idiom should be written with hyphens, as in "an off-the-cuff comment".

👁‍🗨Origin: Possibly related to the fact that people sometimes write last-minute notes on the cuff of their shirt's sleeve before making a speech or saying a few words.
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26 января 2018 09:28

Phrasal Verb of the Day

💥identify with

✍🏾Meaning:
If you identify with someone, you feel you have a connection with them and you can understand them and share their feelings.

🔹For example:

identify with sb
🔺A lot of mothers could identify with the woman who protested against the war after her son was killed in the fighting.

identify with sb
🔺Lots of young guys identify with young male singers and rap stars, and dress like them and act like them.
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25 января 2018 05:29

Idiom of the Day

💥the upper hand

✍🏾Meaning: If you have the upper hand, you have the advantage or you're in the stronger position in a contest or a conflict.

🔺For example:

▪️With one race to go, the Ferrari team has the upper hand. If they get one of the top three places in the last race, they'll win this year's title.

▪️For many years Yahoo was the top search engine, but for the last few years Google has had the upper hand.
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23 января 2018 07:38

Idiom of the Day

📚kill time

✍🏾Meaning:
You kill time when you do something to amuse yourself while waiting for something.

❗️For example:

🔺I had to kill time at the airport because of the delay so I bought a book of crossword puzzles.

🔺We kill time on long trips by playing this game in which someone thinks of a country, and the next person has to think of another country that starts with the last letter of the first one, like Thailand, Denmark, Kenya, Afghanistan, Nepal, and so on.
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23 января 2018 06:11

Slang of the Day

🔰lardass
🇺🇸American English Offensive

✍🏾Meaning:
an overweight person, esp. one with large buttocks

❗️For example:

🔺Madge has become such a lardass since she stopped exercising and started eating too much.

🔺Bill and Jill get on really well. They're both lardasses who love watching TV all day and eating snacks non-stop.

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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21 января 2018 07:53

Slang of the Day

🔰Hush-Haush

✍🏾Meaning:
▫️Very secret; classified
▫️highly secret or confidential

▪️For example:

🔺I want you to keep this hush-hush, but my wife is pregnant!
🔺a hush-hush political investigation.
🔺a hush-hush border meeting
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19 января 2018 04:46

Slang of the Day

🔰egosurf

✍🏾Meaning:
to search for one's own name on the Internet

▪️For example:

🔺When Trevor tried egosurfing, he was surprised to find seven websites that mentioned his name.

🔺Wheh he egosurfed, John Smith found his name in over two hundred million websites. He admitted that they probably weren't all about him, though.
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17 января 2018 04:23

Slang of the Day

🔰upfront

✍🏾Meaning:
honest, open

❗️For example:

🔺Politicians aren't always upfront about their objectives or goals when running for public office.

🔺Do you think the U.S. government was upfront about their motives for attacking Iraq, or do you think they had a secret agenda?
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15 января 2018 15:46

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰chat up
🇬🇧 🇦🇺 INFORMAL

✍🏾Meaning:
to talk to someone in the hope of beginning a romantic relationship with them

❗️For example:

1️⃣chat up sb
🔺Juan is very good at chatting up girls. He knows how to make them laugh.

2️⃣chat sb up
🔺Mark finds it difficult to chat guys up because he often feels shy, and he doesn't know what to say.

🗨Variety: This phrasal verb is typically used in British and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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28 октября 2022 14:15

📒describe as




📖Meaning
to say that something is a certain kind of thing or that someone is a certain type of person

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Would you describe your music as rock or pop?

💬 I'd describe Uncle Ted as a fairly typical middle-aged man.
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26 октября 2022 22:40

📚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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25 октября 2022 11:52

📒dig in



📖Meaning
to start eating with enthusiasm, or gusto

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 As soon as I put the food on the table, all the kids starting digging in.

💬 The pizza's here you guys! Come and dig in!
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24 октября 2022 10:52

📚kill the goose that lays the golden egg



✍🏾Meaning
If you kill the goose that lays the golden egg, you destroy something that has made you a lot of money.


❗️For example

🔸The thing that attracted tourists to the island was the peace and quiet. But greedy developers have killed the goose that laid the golden egg by opening noisy nightclubs, so no-one goes there now.

🔸Parents and agents of successful child actors and singers often kill the goose that laid the golden egg by making the kids work too much, and the kids lose the magic spark that made them special in the first place.
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23 октября 2022 14:05

📒bring out (2)



📖Meaning
to make a quality in someone or something show itself

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The herbs really help to bring out the flavour of the fish.

💬 I love watching adults have fun at amusement parks. These places bring the child out in all of us.
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22 октября 2022 11:36

📚hit the roof



✍🏾Meaning
You can say someone hits the roof if they lose their temper and show their anger.


❗️For example

🔸When the boss saw Jim's mistake, he hit the roof. He yelled and thumped the desk and told Jim to get out.

🔸When Johnny's dad found out that he'd been smoking cigarettes, he hit the roof.
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26 января 2018 09:28

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26 января 2018 06:08

Slang of the Day

🔰ratty (1)
🇬🇧 🇦🇺

✍🏾Meaning:
in poor condition; worn or damaged because of continuous use

🔹For example:

🔺Ratty old jeans are always in fashion among rock musicians.

🔺Don't you think it's time we replaced that ratty wallpaper in the kitchen?

👁‍🗨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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24 января 2018 05:31

Slang of the Day

🔰da bomb
🇺🇸American English

✍🏾Meaning:
excellent, extremely good

❗️For example:

🔺This new Batman movie is da bomb, dude!

🔺Joey's new chick is da bomb, man! She's hot!

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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23 января 2018 06:30

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22 января 2018 06:44

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰belong to

✍🏾Meaning:
If something belongs to a person, it is owned by that person.

▪️For example:

1️⃣belong to
🔺Who do these CD's belong to? Are they yours?

2️⃣belong to sb
🔺Native Americans couldn't understand the idea that a piece of land could belong to one person. It was for everyone to use, like the air in the sky or the water in a river.
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20 января 2018 05:46

Idiom of the Day

📚back to the drawing board

✍🏾Meaning:
You can say "back to the drawing board" when a plan or a design has failed, and you decide to begin all over again.

▪️For example:

🔺Their plans to open a hotel in Fiji fell through, so it was back to the drawing board.

🔺Our new drug worked on rats, but when it was tried on people it failed, so we had to go back to the drawing board and start again.
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18 января 2018 03:59

Idiom of the Day

🔰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.

📌Note: "The year dot" is more common in British and Australian English, while "the year one" is more common in American English.
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16 января 2018 04:10

Idiom of the Day

🔰tighten your belt

✍🏾Meaning:
If you tighten your belt, you try to spend less money.

❗️For example:

🔺I'll have to tighten my belt for a while so I can pay off my debts.

🔺Pablo says his family have had to tighten their belts because everything costs much more now.
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13 января 2018 15:11

Idiom of the Day

📚a hidden agenda

✍🏾Meaning:
If someone has a hidden agenda, they have a secret plan or motive for doing something.

🔺For example:

▪️Some people claim that the U.S. had a hidden agenda in Iraq, and that it had something to do with oil.

▪️Lydia says that the girl's hidden agenda is to make Don fall in love and marry her so that she can get his money.
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