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30 октября 2017 16:01

Idiom of the Day

📚in a bind | fix | jam

📝Meaning: If someone is in a bind, or in a jam, or in a fix, they're in a bad or difficult situation.

❗️For example:

🔺Jimmy's in a bind because he owes a lot of money to some mafia guys, and he hasn't got it.

🔺If you ever get into a fix, let me know and I'll do what I can to help you out.
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28 октября 2017 17:34

Idiom of the Day

🔰junk food

💢Meaning:

Food that is bad for us because it contains large amounts of harmful substances like artificial colouring, preservatives, salt, refined sugar, and so on.

❗️For example:

🔺No wonder people in Western societies are so unhealthy, overweight and unattractive. Have you seen the sort of junk food they're addicted to?

🔺Food companies spend millions developing and advertising junk foods that make us fat, sick and ugly because the profits from this sort of food are far greater than the profits made by selling healthy foods.

💥Note: The idiom "junk food" normally refers to factory-produced foods that have a lot of damaging additives, such as hotdogs and frozen pizzas, or fried foods like hamburgers and french fries, or sugary sweets and fizzy drinks like candy bars and cola drinks.

🗨Origin: Probably related to the fact that junk is something useless and of no value, and this is a good description of the foods that are called junk foods.
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26 октября 2017 04:59

Idiom of the Day

📚(your) heart isn't in it

💢Meaning: If your heart isn't in something you're doing, you don't really want to do it.

❗️For example:

🔺Ali was studying to be a doctor, but his heart wasn't in it so he decided to follow his real dream and study film-making instead.

🔺We could tell that Sally's heart wasn't in it when she tried singing jazz, so we said she should stick to pop songs.
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23 октября 2017 15:57

Idiom of the Day

💥let off steam

☑️Meaning: If you let off steam, you do something to release pent-up emotion or energy.

💡For example:

🔺After sitting quietly in class all morning, kids need time to let off steam in the playground before going back to class in the afternoon.

🔺It'd be good to have a punching bag somewhere in the office so we could let off steam whenever we get a bit angry or frustrated.

✍🏾Note: To "blow off steam" has the same meaning.

🗨Origin: This idiom probably comes from the fact that boiling water produces steam which creates high pressure that will cause an explosion if it isn't released somehow.
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19 октября 2017 13:51

Idiom of the Day

💥middle-of-the-road

Ⓜ️eaning:
✍🏾If something is middle-of-the-road, it'll appeal to the majority of people and not be radical or challenging.

❗️For example:

🔺My daughter says most of the music I like is boring, middle-of-the-road stuff that's only good for putting you to sleep.

🔺Most political parties are middle-of-the-road these days, and it's hard to find any real differences in their policies.
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17 октября 2017 00:00

Slang of the Day

🔰Yo!
🇺🇸American English

Ⓜ️eaning: a greeting, like "Hey!"

❗️For example:

🔺"Yo, Jerome! What's up bro?"

🔺I was walking along the street when I heard this kid yell "Yo, Mikey! What's happenin' man?"

💥Note: "Yo!" is used mostly by African-Americans, or by people who are influenced by African-American culture and style.

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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16 октября 2017 00:45

Phrase of the day

📒I can't put my finger on it📒

📝We use this expression to say that we can't explain or fully understand something.

Written: ✖️Spoken: ✔️Formal: ✖️Informal: ✔️

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🅰️She looks different, doesn't she?
🅱️Yes, I can't put my finger on it. Has she changed her hair?

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🅰️Why don't you like Sam?
🅱️I don't know. I can't put my finger on it. I just feel we can't trust him.
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15 октября 2017 21:47

Slang of the Day

🔰redneck
🇺🇸American English Offensive

✔️Meaning: a lower-class white person from a rural background

📌For example:

🔺We were driving through Alabama when we saw some rednecks riding in the back of a pick-up truck drinking whiskey from a bottle.

🔺If it wasn't for the redneck vote, the Republicans wouldn't have won the election.

✨Origin: Originally referred to working-class white people from the southeastern states of the USA. These people often worked outside as farmers or labourers, and they'd often have red necks as a result of sunburn.

💥Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

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15 октября 2017 15:49

Idiom of the Day

📗the cream of the crop

✔️Meaning: If something or someone is in the cream of the crop, they are among the best of a class of things or people.

⚡️For example:

▪️The cream of the crop of this year's high-school graduates will get into the best universities, as usual.

▪️We're only interested in the cream of the crop, so don't send us any second-rate samples.

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13 октября 2017 08:03

‍ Idiom of the Day

💥vim and vigor

💢Meaning: If you have vim and vigor, you have lots of energy and enthusiasm for life.

❗️For example

🔺Our grandmother is always full of vim and vigor when we go to visit her.

🔺If you want to have lots of vim and vigor when you get older, you need to eat good food and get plenty of exercise when you're young.
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09 октября 2017 10:44

Idiom of the Day

💥quick as a flash | quick as a wink | quick as lightning

💢Meaning: If you're as quick as a flash, or quick as a wink, or quick as lightning, you're very quick.

❗️For example:

🔺Jimmy knew the answer and, quick as a flash, he put up his hand.

🔺Rafael is a big guy for a tennis player, but he's as quick as lightning when he's running around the court.
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07 октября 2017 19:24

Slang of the Day

💥wicked
🇬🇧British English


💢Meaning: very good, excellent, outstanding

❗️For example:

🔺We saw this new band last night and they were wicked. Go and see them next time they play.

🔺Where'd you get the jacket, Dave? It's wicked.

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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07 октября 2017 11:28

Slang of the Day

🔰hooky | hookey
🇺🇸American English

☑️Meaning: (in phrase play hooky) to stay away from school or work without permission

✨For example:

🔹Let's play hooky tomorrow and go watch the golf. Things are pretty quiet at work anyway.

🔹When I was a kid, I was caught playing hookey when school inspectors nabbed us at the mall.

💥Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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06 октября 2017 05:01

Slang of the Day

💥nab

☑️Meaning: to catch someone doing something wrong

❗️For example:

🔺Drug testers have nabbed another professional cyclist for taking steroids.

🔺Some kids were nabbed while stealing sweets from the store.
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05 октября 2017 06:19

Idiom of the Day

🔰yellow-bellied

☑️Meaning: If someone is yellow-bellied, they are not brave, or they are cowardly.

❗️For example:

🔺Tony's father called him yellow-bellied when he was a five-year-old boy because he didn't want to ride a horse. Tony has never forgotten it.

🔺The whole country behaved like yellow-bellied cowards when they let a small group of cheats steal the national election.
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30 октября 2017 15:13

Slang of the Day

💥Loan shark

💢Meaning: an unauthorised moneylender who charges very high interest rates

❗️For example:

▪️It's usually poor people who have to borrow from loan sharks because banks won't give them loans.

▪️Pierre had to go to hospital after he was beaten up because he didn't pay money back to a loan shark in time.
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27 октября 2017 16:40

Slang of the Day

💥unglued

Ⓜ️eaning:

🔜mentally confused and emotionally strained

❗️For example:

🔺After being under stress for a few weeks, Bob was coming unglued and starting to make serious mistakes.

🔺Angela has been coming unglued ever since her boyfriend ran off with her sister.
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24 октября 2017 16:25

Slang of the Day

📌jerk
Offensive

💢Meaning:

a stupid person

❗️For example:

🔺Ted was being a real jerk at the party. He was hitting on all the girls, even if their boyfriends were right there with them.

🔺He's usually a nice guy, but if he drinks too much alcohol he turns into a jerk.
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21 октября 2017 16:26

Slang of the Day

🔰bent

💢Meaning:

🔜dishonest, corrupt

❗️For example:

🔺We always knew those cops were bent, but we've never had the evidence to prove it.

🔺Even though she'd been cheating on her taxes for years, Cathy didn't consider herself bent. She said everybody did it.
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17 октября 2017 13:48

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16 октября 2017 00:50

Idiom of the Day

🔰go over big /ˈgoʊ ˈoʊvɚ ˈbɪg/
✔️ definition of GO OVER BIG
❗️informal
💢: to be successful or well-liked

❕For example:
🔺Here's a recipe for healthy cookies that always goes over big with kids. [=that children like a lot]
🔺The pie went over big with the guests.

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15 октября 2017 21:53

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15 октября 2017 21:44

‍ Word of the Day

💢lousy /ˈlaʊzi/ adjective
lousier; lousiest


Learner's definition of LOUSY
1️⃣ informal : bad or poor
🔺She got lousy grades in high school.
🔺I like the work, but the pay is lousy.
🔺He was a lousy husband.
✔️: of poor quality : not good or skillful
▪️They did a lousy job.
▪️a lousy cook/driver
▪️a lousy performance
❗️— often + at or with
🔺He is lousy [=terrible] at sports/math/cooking.
🔺She's lousy with kids.

2️⃣ : not well or healthy
🔺We could see that she was feeling lousy. [=feeling ill]
🔺He drank too much and felt lousy the next morning.

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15 октября 2017 08:45

Slang of the Day

💥 dicey
/ˈdaɪsɪ/
💯Meaning: risky, unsafe, dangerous

❗️For example:

▪️Skating on an ice-covered lake in spring is always a bit dicey.

▪️Marty was warned that the investment was dicey, but he went ahead and put money into the business anyway. Luckily for Marty, the company did very well.
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11 октября 2017 09:30

Slang of the Day

💥tee off
🇺🇸American English

💢Meaning: to make someone angry, to annoy

❗️For example:

🔺He really teed his girlfriend off when he said he couldn't go out because he had to watch a football game on TV.

🔺Ken teed me off when he said he couldn't pay back the money he owed me.

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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07 октября 2017 19:50

Slang of the Day

💥wicked
🇬🇧British English


💢Meaning: very good, excellent, outstanding

❗️For example:

🔺We saw this new band last night and they were wicked. Go and see them next time they play.

🔺Where'd you get the jacket, Dave? It's wicked.

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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07 октября 2017 11:31

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07 октября 2017 10:36

Idiom of the Day

🔰a slap on the wrist

💢Meaning: ➡️If someone gives you a slap on the wrist, they give you a mild punishment for making a mistake or doing something wrong.

❗️For example:

🔺The tribunal didn't think it was a serious offence, so they just gave him a slap on the wrist. All he got was a warning.

🔺Some of our players got a slap on the wrist for getting to the training session late. The coach warned them not to be late again and then made them do twenty push-ups.
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05 октября 2017 19:37

Slang of the Day

📌geezer
Offensive

📝Meaning: an old person

📍For example:

🔺I'm late because I got stuck behind some old geezer at the bank who took ages to sort out his stuff.

🔺One day I'll be one of those old geezers who sit in the park all day playing chess and checkers.
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03 октября 2017 06:47

Slang of the Day

💥quarterback
🇺🇸American English

Ⓜ️eaning: to lead and make decisions

❗️For example:

🔺We need someone who can quarterback the sales team when they go to trade fairs.

🔺Who's going to quarterback Monday's staff meeting?

🛡Origin: From American football, or gridiron, in which the quarterback is the player who leads the team during offensive moves.

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