English Language

30 мая 2017 14:46

Idiom of the Day

🔰the worse for wear

☑️Meaning: If something is the worse for wear, it has been damaged by being used a lot. If a person is the worse for wear, they don't feel well.

✨For example:

🔹Don't you think we should have the sofa recovered? It's looking a little the worse for wear.

🔹Tom looks a bit the worse for wear this morning. I bet he was out drinking with his buddies last night.
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24 мая 2017 18:33

Idiom of the Day

🔰up to your neck | up to your eyeballs

☑️Meaning: If you're up to your neck in something, or up to your eyeballs in something, you've got too much of it and it's become a problem.

✨For example:

🔹I'm up to my neck in emails and I don't think I can get away at the moment.

🔹Christmas is the worst time at the animal shelter. We're always up to our eyeballs in stray dogs and cats.
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20 мая 2017 07:26

Idiom of the Day

📗young at heart

☑️Meaning: Someone is young at heart if they still feel young even though they're getting old.

✨For example:

📍Terry's nearly seventy but he's still young at heart. He's always trying new things and going to new places.

📍No matter how old I get, I'll always be young at heart.
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16 мая 2017 10:09

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰root out

☑️Meaning: to uncover and punish criminals, especially those abusing positions of trust or authority

💧For example:

🔹root out sb ➡️The president has promised to root out corrupt politicians and send them to jail.

🔸root sb out ➡️The bank's investigation team targeted several workers suspected of stealing money, and it succeeded in rooting them out.

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12 мая 2017 18:17

Slang of the Day

📗knuckle sandwich

☑️Meaning: a punch in the mouth

❄️For example:

🔹Vince turned around and said, "Shut up, pal, or you'll get a knuckle sandwich to chew on."

🔹After he'd punched the thief, the shopkeeper said, "Knuckle sandwiches are free, loser. But you gotta pay for that stuff in your pockets."
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10 мая 2017 09:49

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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04 мая 2017 16:43

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔘wind down

💢Meaning: If you wind something down, you gradually reduce it or end it.

〽️For example:

▫️wind down sth ◽️We're winding down production of gasoline-powered cars and increasing production of battery-powered cars.

▪️wind sth down ◾️Even if the army started winding the operation down tomorrow, it'd be another six months before all the troops had left.

✍️Note: "wind" is pronounced as in "wind the clock", not as in "the wind blew"
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30 апреля 2017 17:57

Phrase of the day

🔰Put your foot in it
✔️We use this to talk about when we say something embarrassing by mistake.

Written: No〽️Spoken: Yes〽️Formal: No〽️Informal: Yes

💧Example 1
🅰️I really put my foot in it with my boss this morning.
🅰️Really, what happened?
🅰️I accidentally told Mark about the surprise party.

💧Example 2
🅰️I really put my foot in it with Janet this morning.
🅱️What did you say?
🅰️I said I thought the new marketing idea was stupid and it was her idea.
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27 апреля 2017 21:56

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔘live on

🔰Meaning: If you live on a certain amount of money, you spend that much on your usual living expenses.

💧For example:

🔹live on ▪️Are you sure a hundred dollars a week is enough to live on?

🔸live on sth ▪️How do people live on the old-age pension? It's not even enough to buy good food.
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24 апреля 2017 19:36

Phrasal Verb of the Day

➡️butt out⬅️
🇺🇸American English INFORMAL

☑️Meaning: If you want to tell someone quite forcefully to mind their own business, you can tell them to butt out.

✔️For example:

butt out ♦️I was having an argument with my girlfriend when Pete told us to cool it, so I told him to butt out.

butt out ♦️My sons were having a fight about something when their older sister tried to get them to stop. They both got angry with her and told her to butt out.

💢Variety: This phrasal verb is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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22 апреля 2017 16:06

Idiom of the Day

🔰dot the i's and cross the t's

💢Meaning: If you dot the i's and cross the t's, you do something very carefully to make sure you haven't made any mistakes.

〽️For example:

♦️I've nearly finished the report. I just have to go over it once more to dot the i's and cross the t's.

♦️Why can't Jerry dot the i's and cross the t's? I always find mistakes in his work.

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18 апреля 2017 12:53

Idiom of the Day

❇️a drop in the bucket
🇺🇸American English

☑️Meaning: If an amount is a drop in the bucket, 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 bucket compared to what's needed.

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

🔰Note: The British and Australian equivalent is "a drop in the ocean".

🔰Variety: This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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16 апреля 2017 13:06

Phrase of the day

🔰Not to mention
☑️We use this expression to add something which is even more important to a list of items.


Written: Yes📌Spoken:Yes📌Formal: Yes📌Informal: Yes

▪️Example 1
He's got fast cars, great clothes, a helicopter..
Not to mention the houses in New York and the Bahamas.
Exactly. He's a lucky man.

▪️Example 2
He's so generous, he's given everyone a new computer and paid for training for us all.
Not to mention all the money he's given to locals schools to help underprivileged kids.
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12 апреля 2017 18:41

Slang of the Day

🔘ocker
🇦🇺Australian English

☑️Meaning: a crude and obnoxious Australian

📌For example:

☢️Most Australians don't like ockers and the image of Australia they create.

☢️These ockers we met think getting drunk on beer and throwing up is cool. They were complete idiots!

🛑Note: usually refers to men, though female ockers do exist in small numbers

🔰Variety: This slang term is typically used in Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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10 апреля 2017 11:35

Idiom of the Day

🔘itchy feet
🇬🇧British English INFORMAL

✅Meaning: If you have itchy feet, you feel the need to go somewhere different or do something different.

📌For example:

🔹It's no wonder Ken's got itchy feet. He's been doing the same job, in the same office, for nearly twenty years.

🔹Thanks to low-cost airlines, people with itchy feet who couldn't afford air fares in the past can now travel.

💥Variety: This idiom is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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28 мая 2017 20:24

Slang of the Day

🔰jailbait
American and Australian English

☑️Meaning: someone below the legal age of consent

✨For example:

🔹He claims he had no idea the girl was jailbait, and insists that she told him she was nineteen years old.

🔹One of the greatest novels in the English language is about a man who falls for a girl even though he knows she's jailbait. It's called "Lolita".

💧Origin: From the fact that in many countries an adult having sexual contact with an underage partner can be given a jail sentence. The underage partner is "bait" that could lead to jail.

📍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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22 мая 2017 20:17

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰end in

✨Meaning: to have a certain result at the end of something

💧For example:

end in sth 👉The two countries couldn't agree on how to solve the problem, so the negotiations ended in a stalemate.

end in sth 👉The U.S. government's policy of making alcohol illegal in the 1920's ended in failure and an increase in organised crime.
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18 мая 2017 15:16

Slang of the Day

🔰pain | pain in the arse | pain in the backside
British and Australian English

☑️Meaning: someone or something that's annoying or troublesome

✨For example:

🔹Pete's new girlfriend is a real pain. She's got this annoying voice, and she never stops talking.

🔹These staff meetings are such a pain in the backside. I don't even know why we have to come.

📜Variety: This slang term is typically used in British and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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14 мая 2017 14:52

Idiom of the Day

📜a quick fix
📍INFORMAL

☑️Meaning: If something is a quick fix, it's a quick and easy, but usually short-term, solution to a problem.

✨For example:

🔹Tania wants to lose weight, but she wants a quick fix like taking a pill instead of eating better and exercising more.

🔹I can tie your car's exhaust pipe up with a bit of wire, but it's just a quick fix. You'll have to get it fixed properly as soon as possible.
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12 мая 2017 18:10

Phrase of the day

📜Can't complain
☑️We use this expression to reply to a question asking how something is, to say there are no big problems.

Written: Yes📍Spoken: Yes📍Formal: No📍Informal: Yes

💧Example 1
🅰️How are you these days? I haven't seen you for ages.
🅱️Can't complain. Still walking five miles a day and going to the gym.

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🅰️How's the course going?
🅱️Can't complain. I keep doing the homework..
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08 мая 2017 12:43

Slang of the Day

🔰weirdo

☑️Meaning: a strange, eccentric or weird person

💧For example:

🔹Back when me and my friends were teenage punk rockers, my grandpa used to say we looked like "bloody weirdos".

🔸Have you ever seen the weirdos who go to those evangelical Christian meetings? They have fits and speak in tongues and play with snakes and do other weird stuff.
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02 мая 2017 17:07

Slang of the Day

🔰riot

✔️Meaning: a very entertaining event or person

💧For example:

🔸We went down to Rio for the Mardi Gras and we had a great time. It was a riot!

🔸Theresa was a riot at the office Christmas party. She told some really funny stories and did some of the silliest dances you'll ever see.
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28 апреля 2017 20:17

Slang of the Day

🔴yokel
Offensive

💢Meaning: a simple, poorly-educated person from the countryside

💧For example:

🔹We used to see whole families of yokels come into town sometimes. They'd be wearing really old clothes, have terrible haircuts, and they'd speak in this weird accent that was hard to understand.

🔹Fran's mother used to say she'd give Fran to the yokels who lived up in the mountains if she was a bad girl.
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26 апреля 2017 20:41

Idiom of the Day

🔰cross that bridge when we come to it

💢Meaning: You can say "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" if someone mentions a problem that might occur in the future, but you want them to think about what's happening now instead.

〽️For example:

📌Martin asked what we'd do if our new company couldn't find good staff when we needed to expand, and I said we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

📌Jenny worries too much about things that might happen in the future, so people are always saying "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it" to her.
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24 апреля 2017 05:58

Slang of the Day

🔰piece

📝Meaning: a gun

✔️For example:

♦️After he'd walked into the store, Danny pulled out a piece and demanded the money.

♦️As long as he got rid of the piece he'd used to shoot the guy, he didn't think the cops could prove he'd done it.

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20 апреля 2017 12:58

Phrasal Verb of the Day

➡️long for⬅️

☑️Meaning: to want something you miss very much

〽️For example:

▪️long for sth
◽️Ever since he left England, Terry has been longing for a plate of traditional English fish and chips.

▫️long for sth
◾️My wife says she longs for stimulating conversation, and when I offer to discuss a serious issue with her, she laughs.
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16 апреля 2017 13:20

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔘farm out

💢Meaning: If you farm out work, you pay people outside your company to do it.

✔️For example:

farm sth out 🔸They farm a lot of the work out to freelancers because it's cheaper than employing their own people.

farm out sth 🔹We've decided to farm out most of the basic programming work to IT subcontractors in India.

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16 апреля 2017 06:34

Slang of the Day

❇️ump

☑️Meaning: umpire

📌For example:

🔰The umps have to make difficult decisions, and they usually get them right.

🔰"What's the matter with you, ump? Lost your seeing-eye dog, have ya?"

🛑Origin: short for "umpire"
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12 апреля 2017 12:04

Today's Idiom

❇️Make a mountain out of a molehill

☑️to cause something unimportant to seem important:
🔖Stop worrying! You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

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08 апреля 2017 18:34

Phrase of the day

📕Look on the bright side
✅We use this expression to encourage someone to think positively about a situation they believe is negative.

Written: Yes❗️Spoken: Yes❗️Formal: Yes❗️Informal: Yes

📌Example 1
🅰️It's so expensive living in New York.
🅱️Yes, but look on the bright side - you learn so much more here than by studying from books, so that's value for money!

📌Example 2
🅰️I've got four exams tomorrow!
🅱️Ok, but look on the bright side - once you've finished, you won't have any more exams for two years!
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