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📚beat the rap
✍🏾Meaning
If someone beats the rap, they avoid being found guilty of a crime.
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🔸Everyone knows that Jimmy the Snitch did the robbery in Green St., but he beat the rap because he's in with the cops.
🔸Henry was charged with drunk driving, but his lawyer helped him beat the rap on some technical detail.
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📒 A still tongue makes a wise head
📖Meaning
Someone who does not talk much, but listens to other people, probably has experience, knowledge and good judgement.
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📚a voice (crying) in the wilderness
✍🏾Meaning
You're a voice in the wilderness, or a voice crying in the wilderness, if you're expressing an unpopular opinion or insight.
❗️For example
🔸When Galileo stated that the sun was the centre of the solar system, he was a voice crying in the wilderness. Most people thought he was crazy or evil, or possibly both.
🔸Clara says petrol engines should be banned because of the damage they cause to the environment. She says most people laugh when she says this, and she feels like a voice in the wilderness.
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📒 When the devil cannot come, he will send
📖Meaning
The implication is that the devil is very persistent. He will always find a way to tempt us. If the devil cannot bring temptation to us himself, he will find someone else to bring it.
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📚above the law
✍🏾Meaning
If someone is above the law, they are not subject to the laws of a society.
❗️For example
🔸Just because his father is a rich and powerful man, he seems to think he's above the law and he can do whatever he likes.
🔸In a democracy, no-one is above the law - not even a president or a prime-minister.
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📒 Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich
📖Meaning
God makes no distinction between people with money and people without money.
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💠 ecofreak 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a person with strong views on the importance of protecting the natural environment
❕For example
🔺Before becoming Minister for the Environment, Peter was a rock star and an ecofreak.
🔺All these ecofreaks came and lay down in front of the bulldozers to stop them from clearing the forest.
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📒catch on (2)
📖Meaning
If you catch on, you suddenly understand something that you couldn't understand at first.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Not all of my students understood the idea at first, but before long they all caught on.
💬 Most scientists now accept that global warming is really happening, but it took a while for a lot of them to catch on.
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💠 fart 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to release gas from the anus (v.) | a release of gas from the anus (n.)
❕For example
🔺Did you know that one of the main causes of global warming is cows farting?
🔺We were driving home when someone did a fart. It smelled so bad that we had to open the windows.
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📒turn over (2)
📖Meaning
to change your body's position when lying down so that you are facing the opposite direction
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My back was sore, and every time I turned over it hurt.
💬 I was sound asleep when my wife turned over and accidentally slapped my face.
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💠 poof | poofter 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an offensive, derogatory word meaning a gay man
❕For example
🔺Everybody thought Gavin was a poof because he liked classical music and going to the ballet.
🔺Boys in my high school used to go "poofter bashing". They'd find a guy in the park they thought was gay, and they'd beat him up.
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📒stick with
📖Meaning
to continue with the same thing, instead of changing to something else
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 He's decided to stick with the team he's playing for now, even though another team offered him a lot of money to play for them instead.
💬 Kenny has stuck with the same group of friends ever since high school.
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📚a new lease on life
✍🏾Meaning
If someone has a new lease on life, they have a new enthusiasm for living.
❗️For example
🔸After recovering from her illness, Kathy had a new lease on life and made lots of plans for the future.
🔸When my uncle quit drinking it gave him a new lease on life and he started doing things he hadn't done for years.
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📒run on (1)
📖Meaning
to use a particular type of fuel or a particular power source
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Why did it take so long for the big car companies to develop and market cars that run on electricity instead of fossil fuels?
💬 My new mobile phone runs on a battery that lasts for a month before it needs recharging.
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💠 ratty (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
easily annoyed or upset, irritable
❕For example
🔺Laura got drunk last night, and now she's got a hangover and she feels a bit ratty.
🔺I had a really bad day at work today, so sorry if I seem a little ratty tonight.
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📒go after (2)
📖Meaning
to try to get something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Are you planning to go after Alex's job when he retires?
💬 If Rupert thinks there's a chance to take over a profitable company, he'll go after it with everything he's got.
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💠 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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📒take up (3)
📖Meaning
to shorten a piece of clothing or a curtain to make it the right size
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 These jeans are a bit too long. Could you take them up for me?
💬 I have to take up the new curtains in the bedroom.
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💠 zine 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a cheaply produced magazine, usually related to music or the arts
❕For example
🔺This friend of ours has just started putting out his own zine. It's about music and the arts in Melbourne.
🔺How much do you reckon it'd cost to publish a monthly zine?
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📒embark on
📖Meaning
to begin something, usually something that will be challenging and time-consuming
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 After quitting her job as a teacher, Sam embarked on a new career as a clothes designer.
💬 We're embarking on a campaign to encourage our young people to eat healthy food.
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📚lend someone a hand
✍🏾Meaning
If you lend someone a hand, you help them.
❗️For example
🔸Could you lend me a hand with these bags?
🔸Sue's husband is amazing. He'll even lend a hand in the kitchen when she's cooking for a dinner party!
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📒 All truths are not to be told
📖Meaning
Some truths are better left unspoken. It is not always necessary to repeat something even though it be true.
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📚a pipe dream
✍🏾Meaning
A pipe dream is a plan or a dream for the future that could never come true or be achieved.
❗️For example
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🔸Pipe dreams only ever come true in the movies.
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📒 Where there's a will there's a way
📖Meaning
If we have the determination to do something, we can always find the path or method to do it.
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📚zero-sum game
✍🏾Meaning
A zero-sum game is a situation in which any gain by one side or person is at the expense of a loss to another side or person involved in the situation.
❗️For example
🔸The stock market has become a giant zero-sum game in which one investor gains what another investor loses.
🔸In a zero-sum game, if you add the total gains of the participants and the total losses of the participants, the sum will always be zero.
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📒 Nothing ventured, nothing gained
📖Meaning
We can't expect to achieve anything if we never take any risks.
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💠 sickie 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a day taken off work after calling in sick when one is actually well
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🔺Paul throws a sickie at least once a month. I wonder if his boss has noticed that he's always "sick" when the weather is beautiful?
🔺Robbo reckons the surf's awesome today, so I'm chuckin' a sickie and headin' down the coast.
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