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24 июля 2024 22:27
📚(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.
🔸The police force had egg on its face because they arrested and beat up an innocent guy who had the same name as a suspect they were looking for.
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23 июля 2024 21:48
📒dig up
📖Meaning
If you dig up something, you get it from under the ground by digging.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The police dug up the murder victim's body and took it away for examination.
💬 My dog loves digging up bones that I bury in the garden for him.
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22 июля 2024 22:48
📚young blood
✍🏾Meaning
If you say "young blood", you mean young people who have fresh, new ideas and lots of energy.
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🔸 The company is successful because they're always bringing in young blood, and this helps them keep up with the latest fashions and ideas.
🔸The trouble with the seniority system is that it keeps young blood out of decision-making positions.
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21 июля 2024 23:07
📒keep in
📖Meaning
to make someone stay in a place like a school or a hospital
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My grandma said her teachers didn't keep naughty kids in after school to punish them. They just hit them.
💬 I went to the hospital because I wasn't feeling well, and they kept me in overnight for observation.
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20 июля 2024 22:40
📚caught red-handed
✍🏾Meaning
If someone is caught red-handed, they are caught in the act of doing something wrong such as cheating or stealing.
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🔸 I used to cheat in exams until I was caught red-handed by my teacher. I stopped doing it after that.
🔸How can you say you didn't steal the book? You were caught red-handed walking out of the store after you'd hidden it under your jacket.
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17 июля 2024 21:40
📒 He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea
📖Meaning
The sea is supremely powerful, and can be a terrifying and awe-inspiring place.
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15 июля 2024 20:25
💠 ripped (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to have well-defined muscles
❕For example
🔺After I'd been working out in the gym for a year or so, people started saying, "You're gettin' ripped, dude."
🔺 We watched a show about prisons last night, and I swear every single guy in there was ripped.
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14 июля 2024 11:16
📒 Practice makes perfect
📖Meaning
The more you do something, the better you become at it. Regular exercise of a skill or activity helps you become expert at it.
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10 июля 2024 22:13
📒hold on (1)
📖Meaning
to hold something like a railing or an overhead strap so you don't fall over
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Make sure you're holding on when the bus starts to move, or you might fall over.
💬 sth Sayoko was too short to reach the strap, so she had to hold on to my arm instead.
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09 июля 2024 22:48
📚water under the bridge | water over the dam
✍🏾Meaning
You can say a problem or an experience is water under the bridge, or water over the dam, if it happened in the past and it no longer affects the present to a degree that is worth worrying about.
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🔸 I wish people would stop talking about my problems with the law. It all happened a long time ago and it's water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned.
🔸Rhonda says her marriage to Mark is water over the dam and it's time to move on with her life.
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08 июля 2024 20:21
📒sit up (2)
📖Meaning
to not go to bed until later than usual
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The first time my wife and I met, it was at a party, and we sat up most of the night talking.
💬 I sat up half the night waiting for my daughter to come home.
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07 июля 2024 22:43
📚kill two birds with one stone
✍🏾Meaning
If you kill two birds with one stone, you achieve two things with the one action.
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🔸 I need to go to the bank, and if I drop the books off at the library on the way I'll be killing two birds with one stone.
🔸Jenny says that she kills two birds with one stone if she does her own housework because she gets the house clean and she gets some exercise at the same time.
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06 июля 2024 21:21
📒charge with
📖Meaning
If someone is charged with a crime, they are officially accused of committing it.
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💬 The company's directors were arrested and charged with tax evasion.
💬 Even though they weren't charged with a crime, hundreds of people were kept for many years in a U.S. prison in Cuba called Guantanamo Bay.
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24 июля 2024 09:07
💠 indie 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
rock music not released by major music labels
❕For example
🔺The indie scene began back in the late 70's and early 80's with bands like Joy Division and The Slits.
🔺 Steve reckons the best indie band of all time is Radiohead.
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23 июля 2024 11:15
📒 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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22 июля 2024 13:32
💠 mosh pit 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an area in front of the stage at a rock concert where people dance energetically, or "mosh"
❕For example
🔺The best concert I've ever been to was a Nirvana gig in the early nineties when Kurt Cobain jumped into the mosh pit.
🔺 Keep an eye on the kids in the mosh pit in case any of them faints or gets hurt.
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21 июля 2024 11:22
📒 A bad penny always turns up
📖Meaning
Bad or nasty people have a habit of showing up or returning.
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20 июля 2024 05:21
💠 hang | hang out 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to spend time with
❕For example
🔺I'm goin' down the park to hang with my friends.
🔺 Hey, you girls. Why don't you hang out with me and the guys for a while?
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18 июля 2024 11:59
📒iron out
📖Meaning
If you iron out the last details of a deal, you sort out the final problems or issues.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If we have any differences or issues, we'll have to iron them out before we sign a deal.
💬 Ronaldo's manager and the club are ironing out a couple of final issues, but they should have everything sorted out soon.
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17 июля 2024 10:31
📚quaking in your boots
✍🏾Meaning
If you're quaking in your boots, you are very frightened.
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🔸 This big, ugly dog was growling at me and baring its teeth. I was quaking in my boots, I can tell you!
🔸Our sergeant was a scary guy. He could make a new army recruit quake in his boots just by looking at him.
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14 июля 2024 23:45
📒apply to
📖Meaning
If something applies to you, it is relevant to you or you are affected by it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Some young people from rich families seem to think that the law doesn't apply to them.
💬 The company's new regulations on sexual harassment apply to everybody, from the CEO to the cleaners.
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13 июля 2024 13:28
📚the moment of truth
✍🏾Meaning
The moment of truth is a time when the truth about something is revealed, or when an important decision is made.
❗️For example
🔸 We're getting our exam results today so the moment of truth is nearly here.
🔸We've been at the tennis tournament all weekend, and now we're watching the last game in the last match, so the moment of truth is here at last.
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11 июля 2024 13:09
💠 top 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a man who takes the active role in gay or homosexual sex
❕For example
🔺Kenny put an ad on a gay website and it said he'd like to date a top aged 20 to 30.
🔺 When Brian was in a gay bar he met a guy he really liked, but it soon became clear that they were both tops.
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10 июля 2024 10:32
📒 Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
📖Meaning
1. Speaking about the Devil may invite him to come.
2. We often say "Talk of the devil!" (or "Speak of the devil!") when somebody that we have just been speaking about suddenly appears.
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09 июля 2024 11:38
💠 mo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
moment
❕For example
🔺I'll be back in a mo.
🔺 Hang on a mo!
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08 июля 2024 14:33
📒 When the going gets tough, the tough get going
📖Meaning
When a situation is difficult or dangerous, strong people work harder to resolve the problem. This saying relies on a difficult play on words; it could be rephrased word-for-word as: "When the situation becomes hard, strong people start working."
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07 июля 2024 12:38
💠 empty out 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to remove everything from inside something
❕For example
🔺The cops stopped the boys and told them to empty out their pockets.
🔺 I knew I'd been promoted when the boss smiled and told me to empty my old desk out and take everything to the office next to his.
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06 июля 2024 10:20
📒 All things are difficult before they are easy
📖Meaning
The implication is that we should be patient with learning, and with learners. It takes time to learn to do things. What seems easy to us now may have been difficult at first.
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