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23 февраля 2017 21:05

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔴run off with🔴

☑️Meaning: If you run off with somebody, you leave home secretly in order to be with them.
🔹For example:

⭕️run off with sb 🔘Anna ran off with her sweetheart Lucas after their parents had tried to stop them from seeing each other.

⭕️run off with sb 🔘Can you believe it? Stan has run off with his secretary and they're living in Hawaii.
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21 февраля 2017 16:06

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔘clear up🔘

☑️Meaning: If an illness or a condition like acne clears up, it improves until it's no longer a problem.
For example:

🔹clear up 💥As soon as I stopped swimming in the pool my skin cleared up, so something in the water must have been causing the rash.

🔹clear up sth 💥I bought some special vitamin E cream to get rid of my pimples, and within a couple of weeks most of them had cleared up.
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19 февраля 2017 14:33

Slang of the Day

🔴arty | artsy🔴

☑️Meaning: displaying an interest in the arts or high culture
For example:

💥Most Hollywood actors are careful not to sound too arty when they're being interviewed.

💥Mark says most Americans are insecure, so they don't like "artsy" people because deep down inside they feel inferior to them.
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16 февраля 2017 04:53

Today's idiom:

📕a close shave📕

☑️a near accident or disaster

💥I had a close shave driving home last night. A deer ran across the road in front of me and I almost drove into a tree.

💥I was walking in the mountains when a rock crashed down onto the path behind me. I don't need another close shave like that!
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14 февраля 2017 04:55

Idiom of the Day
🎯to beat a dead horse.🎯

Definition: ☑️to keep on doing something after there is no point in doing so

🔘Examples
✳️You're just beating a dead horse. He's never going to change his mind.
✳️I finally realized that I was beating a dead horse. Nothing I could say was going to make any difference.
✳️Relying on new or existing manufacturing jobs to save the day down the road isn't just beating a dead horse, it's laying down beside it.
✳️I also think that we may have reached the point of beating a dead horse ... so with thanks and love to all, I now respectfully close this thread.

Explanation: 📝The word beat in this idiom means hit. An alternative expression is to flog a dead horse. (Hitting a dead horse is not going to make it move!)
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12 февраля 2017 04:46

🔘on exhibit /ˈɑːn ɪgˈzɪbət / idiom

✅Definition of ON EXHIBIT: being publicly shown in an exhibition

✳️The photographs are on exhibit in the museum's west wing.

✳️The painting went on exhibit last week.

✳️The painting was put on exhibit.
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11 февраля 2017 06:56

Slang of the Day

✅redneck✅
🇺🇸American English Offensive
Today: Sat, 11 Feb 2017

🎯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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09 февраля 2017 09:48

📘Phrase of the day

✳️The other way round/around✳️
✍We use this expression to say that some information was backwards.

Written: ✅Spoken: ✅Formal: ✅Informal: ✅

🔘Example 1
🅰So you invited Karen to your party?
🅱No, the other way round - she invited me to her party.

🔘Example 2
🅰You said the plane leaves at four and arrives at six?
🅱No, the other way round. It leaves at six and arrives at four the next morning.
🅰I see.
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07 февраля 2017 22:12

✅Conversation

📘Give me the rundown !!!📘

🅰Renee: We need to book a meeting room. But the meeting rooms are almost booked out. I'm still working on that.
🅱Michelle: Please try your best to get us a room. Your know we cannot reschedule the rehearsal.
🅰Renee : I'll do my best. And I'll make sure all the presentation slides are ready on the computer.
🅱Michelle: Good. And don't forget to give me the rundown on the rehearsal.
Ⓜ️Sam: No problem. Renee and I will see to it.
🅱Michelle: Then that concludes our meeting today. Let's roll.

🔘Explanation :

Rundown - A detailed report

💥Example : Here's a rundown on/of the activities of our ten biggest competitors.
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06 февраля 2017 23:23

Phrase of the day
Today: 7th February 2017

📙Have it your way📙
📝We use this expression to say we agree - perhaps reluctantly - with the other person's idea, opinion or choice.

Written:✅Spoken: ✅Formal: ❌Informal:✅

💥Example 1
🅰We always go shopping on Saturday. I want to stay at home for a change.
🅱OK - have it your way. We'll stay at home on Saturday if you prefer.

💥Example 2
🅰They're married.
🅱No, they are just friends.
🅰OK, have it your way. They're friends - but friends who are always together.
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04 февраля 2017 04:59

🍂Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
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02 февраля 2017 19:31

Phrase of the day
⏱Today: 02 Feb 2017

✅A hot potato✅
📘The phrase ‘ a hot potato’ usually means: a delicate subject which people have different opinions and feel very emotional about.

💥Example of use: “I never ask about anyone’s marital status; it can be a hot potato.”

🤔Interesting fact
It's not too hard to understand this phrase, try holding a hot potato and you'll drop it immediately!
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31 января 2017 04:57

Phrase of the day
⏱Today: 31th January 2017

🔴By the sound of it🔴

📝We use this expression to make a guess about something.

Written: ✅Spoken: ✅Formal: ✅Informal: ✅

💥Example 1
🅰Do you know what Stef did this weekend?
🅱She tried bungee jumping for the first time. By the sound of it she head great time.

💥Example 2
🅰I just got a postcard from Mike.
🅱Oh, really. Is he enjoying his holiday?
🅰By the sound of it, he's not having very good weather.
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29 января 2017 04:31

Phrasal Verb of the Day
⏱Today: 29th January 2017

✅object to✅
📝Meaning: If you object to something, you don't think it's a good thing or a good idea, so you oppose it or you are against it.

🍁Synonym: oppose

💥For example:
🔸object to sth🔹 ➡️Most people object to the huge bonuses that banks and financial companies pay their top executives.

🔹object to sth🔸 ➡️Some politicians object to the new law that will improve health care for children because it might mean lower profits for big drug companies.

🔮Nouns often used as objects with object to: decision, verdict, plan, idea, proposal, law
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25 января 2017 04:46

Phrasal Verb of the day
⏱25th January 2017
✅boil down to something✅

📝Meaning: This is the most important part of something

💥Examples:

⚫️It all boils down to money in the end. (Money is the most important part of this)
🔴What it all boils down to is, can they do the work before the end of November?
🔵This promotion will only be successful if we can sell 50,000 units. It all boils down to sales at the end of the day.

⭐️NOTE:
✔️This phrasal verb is not used in the progressive tense - e.g. it's all boiling down to money* WRONG

✔️This phrasal verb often comes with 'all' at the beginning
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22 февраля 2017 04:24

Phrase of the day

⭕️Stick to...
☑️We say this phrase to say or suggest that somebody continues to do something and doesn't change.


Written: ✅Spoken: ✅Formal: ❎Informal: ✅

💥Example 1
🅰I tried going to a Frecnh restaurant last night but I didn't enjoy it.
🅱That's a pity. I guess you should stick to fish and chips then.
🅰Yes, no more foreign food for me.

💥Example 2
🅰I heard David Beckham is going to make a movie.
🅱That's crazy. He should stick to what he's good at.
🅰Yes, he should stick to modelling sunglasses.
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20 февраля 2017 04:32

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17 февраля 2017 07:40

Phrasal Verb of the Day

➡️hang over⬅️

☑️Meaning: If you feel that you are facing a threat or a danger, we can say the threat or the danger hangs over you.
▶️For example:

🔘hang over sb/sth ✳️The threat of unemployment hangs over everyone in the company.

🔘hang over sb/sth ✳️After a fire had destroyed the old church, a sense of loss hung over the town.

Quick Quiz:
The threat of illness hung over the city because
🅰. a new hospital was being built
🅱. doctors were increasing their fees
🆑. the new virus was spreading quickly

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15 февраля 2017 08:07

🔴Today's phrasal verb

Verb:
📕snow under

✅Definition:
to give too much work to do

🔘Examples:
✳️Our history teacher snowed us under with work for the weekend.

✳️Sorry, we can't meeting tomorrow. I'm completely snowed under at the moment.

✳️I'd help you if I weren't so snowed under myself.

💥Note:
The expression is most often used as in the last two example sentences.
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13 февраля 2017 09:13

🔘Phrase of the day

💥That's another story💥
🎯We use this expression to say that we have more information about a new topic, but that we are not going to say what it is.

Written: ✅Spoken: ✅Formal: ✅Informal: ✅

✳️Example 1
🅰How long have you been friends with Sam? I didn't know you knew her.
🅱We were more than friends, actually. But that's another story.

✳️Example 2
🅰Did you have a good weekend?
🅱Great. The hotel was fantastic. And I met a nice man, but that's another story.
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11 февраля 2017 22:02

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔘get ahead🔘

✅Meaning: If you get ahead, you make progress in your career.
💥For example:

🎯get ahead 🔹Peter says he got ahead by working hard and listening to people who knew more than he did.

🎯get ahead 🔹She won't get ahead unless she quits this job and starts working for a bigger company.
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10 февраля 2017 04:45

🎯Conversation

🔘Expedite your payment !!!🔘

🅰Max Hello, Reiner. How are you ?
🅱Reiner Oh, hi Max. I'm good. Thanks.
🅰Max Sorry to bother you, but I'd like to know when we can receive your payment. It's a bit late since it's supposed to be made a month ago.
🅱Reiner I'm sorry about the delay. This simple job gets complicated because we are switching bank accounts. We've got tons of paperwork to work on and need another ten days to finish all the procedures.
🅰Max Is it possible that you pay it earlier by the end of this month ?
🅱Reiner The next payment run we're doing will be ten days later. This is when the invoice will be paid, not earlier. Please understand.
🅰Max We understand. But still, please expedite the payment as soon as possible. Thanks you

📕Explanation :

✳️Expedite - To cause to be done more quickly; to hurry

▶️Example : Something needs to be done to expedite the process.
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09 февраля 2017 09:35

🌎Phrasal Verb of the Day
🕰Today: Thu, 09 Feb 2017

🎯mouth off🎯
⭕️INFORMAL

💢Meaning: to speak in a loud and annoying way, especially when criticizing or complaining about something
💥For example:

🔹mouth off 🔘Some guy in the pub got punched because he was mouthing off about something and I guess he upset someone.

🔸mouth off 🔘After he'd had a couple of beers Robert started mouthing off about the evils of big government again last night.
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07 февраля 2017 17:10

Phrasal Verb of the Day

pack away (1⃣)

📝Meaning: If you pack something away, you put it back where it's usually kept after you've finished using it.

✳️Synonym: put away
💥For example:

pack sth away 🔘Have you packed the fishing rods away or are they still in the car?

pack away sth 🔘How many times do I have to tell you to pack away your golf clubs after you've finished using them?
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06 февраля 2017 04:44

Idiom of the Day
Today: 6th February 2017
📚To have a lot on your plate


✅Having a lot on your plate is, quite simply, having too much to do.

You might have lots of reports to fill out, several meetings, and a number of new projects to start.

This would be considered having a lot on your plate.

💥In context: Sorry, I can’t take on this new project; I already have a lot on my plate.
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03 февраля 2017 12:50

Phrasal Verb of the Day
⏱Today: Fri, 03 Feb 2017

⚫️ pay off (1⃣)

📘Meaning: If you pay off a loan, you pay it back in installments over a period of time.
💥For example:

🔮pay sth off🔮
🔴They took out a loan to buy their house and they'll pay it off over the next twenty-five years.

🔮pay off sth🔮
🎾Have you paid off your car loan yet, or do you still owe some money to the bank?

🔮be paid off🔮
🔵If we keep giving the bank a thousand dollars a month, our credit cards will be paid off by the end of next year.
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02 февраля 2017 04:21

Idiom of the Day
⏱Today: 02 Feb 2017

✳️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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30 января 2017 08:56

🍂Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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26 января 2017 09:45

Phrase of the day
⏱Today: 26th January 2017

🌔I'll get back to you🌔
📝We use this expression to say that we need to find some information or do something and will contact the person later.

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

💥Example 1
🅰Can you tell me how many students are taking the exam next month?
🅱I'll find out. I'll get back to you.

💥Example 2
🅰Do you know what has been decided?
🅱Not yet. I'll get back to you on that.
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24 января 2017 08:25

🍂To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
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