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19 ноября 2022 11:25

📚a queer fish




✍🏾Meaning
If someone's a queer fish, they are a bit strange and can sometimes behave in an unusual way.


❗️For example

🔸Your great grandfather was a queer fish, Johnny. He used to write funny poems and then he'd read them aloud to everyone on the train on his way to work.

🔸Some of the characters described as "queer fish" in old novels might be called "weirdos" these days.
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18 ноября 2022 07:42

📒wait on (2)




📖Meaning
to wait for the results of something, or for information about something, before deciding what to do next

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The investigators are waiting on the toxicology results before making their final report.

💬 Her family is in the next room waiting on the test results.

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17 ноября 2022 19:04

💠 can (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to reject or criticize something or someone


❕For example

🔺The show's ratings were so bad that the network canned it after just a few episodes.

🔺The English media cans the national football team whenever they lose a game.
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17 ноября 2022 07:20

📚(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.


❗️For example

🔸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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16 ноября 2022 09:57

📒put through (2)



📖Meaning
to pay for someone's education through school, college, university, etc.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 It's costing her a lot of money to put herself through law school.

💬How much does it cost to put a kid through college these days?
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15 ноября 2022 20:16

💠 ill 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
good, excellent


❕For example

🔺The new Neo album is ill, man!

🔺Corrie's new jacket is ill. Where can I get one?
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15 ноября 2022 09:30

📚a blessing in disguise




✍🏾Meaning
You can say something is a blessing in disguise if it appears to be bad at first, but it results in something very good in the end.


❗️For example

🔸Being caught in that traffic jam was a blessing in disguise. If I hadn't missed the flight, I would have been on that plane when it crashed.

🔸His accident was a blessing in disguise because it gave him lots of time to think about his life while he was recovering, and as a result he made some important changes that improved his life.
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14 ноября 2022 12:26

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13 ноября 2022 10:57

💠 vac (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
vacation, holiday


❕For example

🔺Are you going overseas in the long vac?

🔺I'm looking for a job over the vac. Any ideas?
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12 ноября 2022 10:30

📒 Man proposes, God disposes



📖Meaning
Human beings can make any plans they want, but it's God that decides their success or failure.
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10 ноября 2022 21:15

💠 flake 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an unreliable person who says they'll do something, but then doesn't do it


❕For example

🔺Lenny's such a flake! This is the third time he hasn't come after we'd planned to meet.

🔺John called in sick again today. He's such a flake.
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09 ноября 2022 20:56

📒 Truth has no answer




📖Meaning
It is difficult to argue against facts. We cannot refute what is true.
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08 ноября 2022 19:10

💠 rubbish 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to make very negative comments, to strongly criticise


❕For example

🔺British newspapers nearly always rubbish local sports teams when they don't do well in international competitions.

🔺Why does that guitarist in Oasis always rubbish other bands? I don't think I've ever heard him say anything nice about another band, except for The Beatles.
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07 ноября 2022 11:58

📒 Rags to rags in three generations




📖Meaning
The first generation in a family makes money (goes from rags to riches); the second generation holds or keeps the money; and the third generation squanders or loses the money (and so goes back to rags).

✍Note
rags (noun) = old, tattered clothes | generation (noun) = all of the people born and living at about the same time; a set of members of a family born and living at about the same time
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06 ноября 2022 09:01

💠 pig (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a police officer


❕For example

🔺Dominic says the pigs always give him a hard time because he's a young black guy and he likes wearing good clothes and lots of jewellery. They think he's a drug dealer.


🔺If Frank finds out that Ian's been talking to the pigs, he'll beat the crap out of him.
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18 ноября 2022 21:25

📒 A word to the wise is enough



📖Meaning
A very brief warning or explanation is enough for an intelligent person.
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17 ноября 2022 19:07

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17 ноября 2022 07:21

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16 ноября 2022 20:54

📒 You can't tell a book by its cover



📖Meaning
You cannot judge what something or someone is like by looking at the exterior.
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15 ноября 2022 20:19

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15 ноября 2022 09:31

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14 ноября 2022 20:37

📒 Facts are stubborn things



📖Meaning
We cannot avoid the truth, even when it is not what we want to hear or express.
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13 ноября 2022 19:59

📒knock back (1)



📖Meaning
to take a drink, usually alcoholic

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Every day after work, Steve and his mates knock back a few beers.

💬 The bartender poured Amy a whisky soda and she knocked it back and asked for another one.
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12 ноября 2022 20:38

📚time after time




✍🏾Meaning
If you do something time after time, you do it again and again, or repeatedly.


❗️For example

🔸We've told our son time after time to call us if he's going to be late, but he still forgets sometimes.

🔸Tiger wins major tournaments time after time. He really is a champion.
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11 ноября 2022 08:15

📒hang out (2)




📖Meaning
to spend time in a certain place, or with certain people

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 After school, most of the kids hang out in front of the mall.

💬 I'm worried about my son. He's started hanging out with kids who smoke and drink.
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10 ноября 2022 08:13

📚dig one's own grave




✍🏾Meaning
If you dig your own grave, you do something unwise that will result in your own failure or downfall in the future.


❗️For example

🔸Anyone who eats too much and doesn't exercise is digging their own grave.

🔸Jim lost his job, but he dug his own grave by being late all the time.
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09 ноября 2022 11:10

📒take on (2)




📖Meaning
to give someone a job

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We need to take on two more workers in the warehouse.

💬 I promised to take Francine's sister on if we needed another typist.
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07 ноября 2022 20:00

📚Never say die!




✍🏾Meaning
You can say "Never say die!" if you want to tell someone to keep trying while there's still a chance of success.


❗️For example

🔸We were two goals down with only a few minutes to go, but our captain wouldn't give up. He was shouting, "Come on, guys! Never say die!"

🔸After falling off his surfboard for the hundredth time, Craig climbed back on and said with a laugh, "Never say die!"
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06 ноября 2022 19:34

📒get back (2)



📖Meaning
If you get something back, it is returned to you after you've lent it, lost it, or had it stolen.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 If you leave something in a taxi, you might get it back if you call the taxi company.

💬 I'm never lending money to Dave again. Last time it took six months to get back the hundred dollars I lent him.
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05 ноября 2022 20:29

📚for my money




✍🏾Meaning
You can say "for my money" to mean the same as "in my opinion".


❗️For example

🔸For my money, the best restaurant in town is the "Ahaan Aroy" Thai restaurant in Prescott Street.


🔸Leo reckons Sony make the best TVs, but for my money the new Panasonics are much better than Sonys.
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