English Language

14 июля 2023 17:43

📚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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13 июля 2023 19:35

📒 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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13 июля 2023 10:03

📒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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12 июля 2023 07:40

💠 funk 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
(in phrase be in a funk) an unhappy, depressed mood

❕For example

🔺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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11 июля 2023 12:22

📒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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10 июля 2023 06:43

💠 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 июля 2023 20:51

📒knock down (1)


📖Meaning
If something like a building or a wall is knocked down, it is destroyed on purpose.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The old hotel was knocked down so that a new one could be built.

💬If we knocked the tool shed down, we could put a vegetable garden there instead.

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07 июля 2023 17:30

💠 dope (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a stupid person, a fool


❕For example

🔺How come those dopes who work in the U.S. Treasury didn't realise what was going on?

🔺Max says the problem with democracy is that there are too many dopes out there, and they'll only vote for someone they can relate to, meaning another dope.
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06 июля 2023 12:39

📒 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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05 июля 2023 05:30

📚a roller coaster | a roller-coaster ride


✍🏾Meaning
You can say an experience is a roller coaster, or a roller-coaster ride, if it involves many emotional highs and lows, or really good times alternating with really difficult times.


❗️For example

🔸The movie follows a young guy's emotional roller-coaster ride as he tries to come to terms with being alone in a small town in Australia.

🔸Eric writes about the roller coaster of rock and roll, with the highs of success and fame followed by the lows of drug addiction and depression.

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04 июля 2023 05:36

📒 There's no such thing as a free lunch


📖Meaning
We cannot get something for nothing. We must pay for everything. Nothing in life is free.


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03 июля 2023 09:04

📚know where you stand


✍🏾Meaning
If you know where you stand, you know exactly where you fit in a social or work situation, or in someone's life.


❗️For example

🔸Nobody bothered to ask Ken for his opinion, so he says he now knows where he stands in the company.

🔸Shelley didn't even invite me to her party, so I know where I stand with her now.

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02 июля 2023 07:20

📒 Would you buy a used car from this man?


📖Meaning
Do you trust this man? I don't.


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01 июля 2023 05:30

📚ring a bell


✍🏾Meaning
If something rings a bell, it sounds familiar or you think you've heard it before.


❗️For example

🔸The name rang a bell but I couldn't remember exactly where I'd heard it before.

🔸Does the name "Hunter S. Thompson" ring a bell?

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30 июня 2023 11:56

📒 A just war is better than an unjust peace


📖Meaning
Fighting between countries for a fair and good cause is better than no fighting in a situation that is unfair.


Note: just (adj.) = based on what is fair or morally right

war (noun) = fighting or armed conflict between countries

unjust (adj.) = not based on what is fair or morally right

peace (noun) = quiet and tranquillity; freedom from war

Compare: "An unjust peace is better than a just war." - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43BC)


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14 июля 2023 05:41

💠 louse up 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to spoil something or make it fail


❕For example

🔺She really wants this job, so I hope she doesn't louse up the interview.


🔺Don't worry. He won't louse it up. He's been doing these deals for years.

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13 июля 2023 10:22

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12 июля 2023 17:31

📚on your last legs | on its last legs


✍🏾Meaning
If you say you're on your last legs, it can mean you're close to exhaustion, or it can mean you're close to death. If a thing is on its last legs, it's close to breaking or wearing out.


❗️For example

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11 июля 2023 17:42

📒 There's no such thing as a free lunch


📖Meaning
We cannot get something for nothing. We must pay for everything. Nothing in life is free.

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10 июля 2023 18:29

📚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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09 июля 2023 07:29

📒 Out of office, out of danger


📖Meaning
The implication is that people in high government or official jobs are not safe. They will be safe only when they leave their job.

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08 июля 2023 09:07

📚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.

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05 июля 2023 17:30

📒stop over


📖Meaning
to stop at a place and stay there for one or two days while on your way to somewhere else

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We're going to Vietnam on business, but we're stopping over in Hawaii for a couple of days on the way.

💬 I'm stopping over in Bangkok for one night on my way to Sydney.

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04 июля 2023 17:47

💠 toffee-nosed 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
snobbish, pretentiously superior towards people of lower social class or income


❕For example

🔺Just ignore him. He's a toffee-nosed prat.

🔺Those fashion shows are full of toffee-nosed snobs showing off their gaudy trinkets and baubles.

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03 июля 2023 19:20

📒mistake for


📖Meaning
to wrongly think that a person or thing is someone or something else

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Fake Gucci bags look real and can easily be mistaken for genuine Gucci bags.

💬 There's a guy who lives near here who often gets mistaken for David Beckham. He looks just like him.

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02 июля 2023 21:42

💠 mug (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
the face


❕For example

🔺Hey Harvey! Were you at the Liverpool game on Saturday? I was watching it on TV and I'm sure I saw your mug in the crowd.

🔺Looks like Larry's growing a beard. Good idea if it means we don't have to see so much of his big ugly mug!


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01 июля 2023 17:30

📒shut out (2)


📖Meaning
to stop yourself thinking about or feeling something that upsets you or hurts you

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 She still finds it difficult to shut out the memory of her grandmother's illness.

💬 The thought of losing her is unbearable, and no matter how hard I try, I just can't shut it out.

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30 июня 2023 21:21

💠 veep 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
the vice president


❕For example

🔺If a president dies during his or her term, the veep takes over and becomes the president.

🔺What do you think about the Republican Party putting a woman on their ticket to run for veep?


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29 июня 2023 19:10

📒die down


📖Meaning
If something dies down, it gradually becomes weaker in strength or lower in volume or magnitude.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬   The anger people felt about what the previous government had done to their country took a long time to die down.

💬The new president waited for the applause to die down before he began to speak.

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