📚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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📒 Bad news travels fast
📖Meaning
"Bad news" means news about "bad" things like accidents, death, illness etc. People tend to tell this type of news quickly. But "good news" (passing an exam, winning some money, getting a job etc) travels more slowly.
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📚talk turkey
✍🏾Meaning
If you talk turkey, you discuss something seriously, usually to do with business or money.
❗️For example
🔸After the owner had shown him around the apartment, Shane decided it was just what he wanted, so he said, "OK, I'm interested. Let's talk turkey."
🔸I started to say something about the deal, but Mr Hamilton said, "Not now, my boy. We never talk turkey at the dinner table."
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📒 All that glitters is not gold
📖Meaning
The attractive exterior of something is not a good indicator of its real nature. It may look valuable, but not be valuable.
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📚easy come, easy go
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "easy come, easy go" to express the idea that if something comes to someone easily, such as money they get without working hard for it, they can lose it just as easily and it won't matter to them much.
❗️For example
🔸Harry's very easy-going, especially when it comes to money. It's easy come, easy go, as far as he's concerned.
🔸The share market's been falling recently, and I've lost a fair bit of money, but it's easy come, easy go, really, because it's just money I've earned from shares in the past.
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📒 “The secret of discipline is motivation. When a person is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”
📖Meaning
When you intrinsically have desire toward something you'll do it at any cost.
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📒talk out of
📖Meaning
If you talk someone out of something, you persuade them not to do it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My uncle is a drug addict, and there's nothing I can say to talk him out of it. He says he's too old to stop now.
💬My family tried to talk me out of becoming a musician, but I wouldn't change my mind. I was determined to have a career in music.
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💠 cushy 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
easy, undemanding (of a job or a lifestyle)
❕For example
🔺I'd like one of those cushy government jobs with loads of holidays and not much real work.
🔺Steve quit the cushy job he had in his father's company. He says it didn't challenge him enough.
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📒act out
📖Meaning
If you act out, you express your feelings through acts or words.
🤓For example ⤵️
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💬We can all have violent thoughts and aggressive feelings sometimes, but society doesn't usually allow us to act them out.
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💠 oomph 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
power or force
❕For example
🔺No wonder he was knocked out. The punch that got him had a lot of oomph behind it.
🔺We need to put a bit more oomph into our presentation. It seems a bit weak.
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📒stand out
📖Meaning
If somebody stands out, they are easy to see because there is something unusual about the way they look or the way they behave.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 One of my sons says he likes people to notice him, and his green hair certainly makes him stand out in a crowd.
💬Most packaging is designed to stand out on the shelf and be easy to notice in a shop.
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💠 nick (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to steal something
❕For example
🔺I left my bike in front of the bank while I went inside to pay some bills. When I came back out it was gone. Some bastard had nicked it!
🔺Did you ever nick money from your mum's purse when you were a kid?
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📒put forward (1)
📖Meaning
to offer an idea, an opinion, a suggestion, etc. for other people to consider
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 He put forward an interesting argument, but no-one was really convinced by it.
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💬 Many of the suggestions that have been put forward are excellent.
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📚hold the fort
✍🏾Meaning
If you hold the fort, you look after a place or a business while the person who is normally in charge is away.
❗️For example
🔸Can you hold the fort while I run down to the bank?
🔸Your job will be to serve customers, and occasionally hold the fort if I have to go out.
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📒 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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💠 user 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a person who regularly takes mind-altering drugs
❕For example
🔺Kelly's been a user for many years and she'd like to stop using drugs altogether, but she can't do it by herself.
🔺All the people who go to Narcotics Anonymous meetings are users who are recovering, so they really understand the problems other drug addicts have.
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📒have on (2)
📖Meaning
If you have something on at a certain time, you've arranged to do something at that time.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If you don't have anything on tonight, we could see a movie if you like.
💬I have a lot on tomorrow, but maybe we could meet on Thursday.
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💠 bloody 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an intensifying expletive used before an adjective, adverb or noun; very, really; total, complete
❕For example
🔺It's bloody hot in here. And now the bloody air conditioner won't work. Bloody hell!
🔺You'd have to be a bloody idiot to vote for a party that's just ruined the economy.
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📒do about
📖Meaning
If you do something about a problem, you do something to fix it or solve it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My printer won't work and I'm not sure what to do about it.
💬What do you think we should do about our company's falling market share?
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💠 quad (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a quadruplet, one of four babies born together from the same mother
❕For example
🔺I'm teaching a set of quads in my kindergarten class this term, and I can't tell them apart. All four look exactly the same!
🔺After getting fertility treatment, Jill gave birth to a set of four healthy quads. She's been home with them for one week and she's already exhausted!
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📚like a fish out of water
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📚(have) egg on your face
✍🏾Meaning
You will have egg on your face if you've said or done something wrong, and it's made you feel embarrassed or stupid.
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🔸Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.
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📒 A good man is hard to find
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This saying talks about the difficulties for women in finding a suitable male partner.
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📚hard to come by
✍🏾Meaning
If something is hard to come by, it is difficult to find.
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🔸Good jobs in the airline industry have been hard to come by recently.
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📒 Revenge is a dish best served cold
📖Meaning
This saying suggests that if someone does something bad to us, it is better to pay them back later in time, not immediately. Vengeance may be more satisfying if it is not inflicted immediately.
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💠 beat it 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
go away
❕For example
🔺Some kids were smoking in the carpark, but when one of them saw a teacher coming they grabbed their stuff and beat it.
🔺When Peter came back from the bathroom, some guy was talking to Leanne. Peter said, "Beat it, pal! She's with me."
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📒model on
📖Meaning
to use something or someone as an example to copy when making something or doing something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The Indian legal system was modelled on the British system.
💬 Many young singers and dancers still model themselves on Michael Jackson.
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