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09 марта 2024 07:45
📒 None so deaf as those who will not hear
📖Meaning
Nobody is deafer than the person who decides he does not want to listen. Often used in reference to prejudice and intolerance.
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07 марта 2024 20:30
📒order around
📖Meaning
If you order people around, you tell them what to do in a bossy way.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The workers hate the way their supervisor orders them around. They say she's rude and bossy.
💬 Army recruits soon get used to being ordered around.
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06 марта 2024 20:53
💠 honky 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a derogatory term in black American slang for a white person
❕For example
🔺When we were visiting the Apollo Theater in Harlem in New York, a woman passing us on the street said, "What are you honkies doin' round here?"
🔺I have a lot of black American friends, and they all say they hate racist language, including anti-white words like "honky".
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05 марта 2024 20:25
📒build on (2)
📖Meaning
to add a new section to a house or a building
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We need a bigger house, and we can either sell this one and buy a bigger one, or keep this one and build on.
💬 The owners wanted two extra floors and they built them on without getting approval from the council, so now they have to pull the whole building down.
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04 марта 2024 20:52
💠 geezer 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an old person
❕For example
🔺I'm late because I got stuck behind some old geezer at the bank who took ages to sort out his stuff.
🔺One day I'll be one of those old geezers who sit in the park all day playing chess and checkers.
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03 марта 2024 20:11
📒follow up
📖Meaning
to do something in addition to what's already been done in order to complete or continue a process or a deal
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If you meet a new contact, make sure you get their number and follow up with a call in the next day or two.
💬 After selling something online, the website follows up with a customer satisfaction survey.
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02 марта 2024 19:17
💠 eats 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
snacks, food
❕For example
🔺We'll have plenty to drink at the party but we need you to bring some eats.
🔺We won't have to worry about taking lunch. There'll be plenty of eats at the seminar.
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29 февраля 2024 05:54
📚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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28 февраля 2024 07:12
📒 None so deaf as those who will not hear
📖Meaning
Nobody is deafer than the person who decides he does not want to listen. Often used in reference to prejudice and intolerance.
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27 февраля 2024 05:44
📚rags to riches
✍🏾Meaning
If you go from rags to riches, you start out very poor and you become very rich.
❗️For example
🔸My grandfather went from rags to riches when his dishwashing liquid became very popular. He started out making it at home, but in less than a year he had his own factory.
🔸Most of these young guys in professional basketball came from poor neighbourhoods and they all have the same rags-to-riches story.
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26 февраля 2024 06:17
📒 Everything comes to him who waits
📖Meaning
Patient people eventually receive all things.
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25 февраля 2024 08:17
📚a ballpark figure | a ballpark estimate
✍🏾Meaning
If you give a ballpark figure or a ballpark estimate, you give a number which you think is fairly close to the actual one.
❗️For example
🔸We don't know the exact cost, but a ballpark figure would be around six million dollars.
🔸I know you can't tell me exactly when it'll be finished, but can you give me a ballpark estimate?
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24 февраля 2024 12:13
📒 Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself
📖Meaning
A bad person will sooner or later be the cause of his own downfall.
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22 февраля 2024 19:46
📒advise of
📖Meaning
If you advise someone of something, you tell them about it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 A policemen advised me of my rights and then he arrested me.
💬 Please advise us of any change of address or contact details.
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07 марта 2024 09:58
📚asking for trouble
✍🏾Meaning
If someone is asking for trouble, they're doing something risky that could lead to a problem.
❗️For example
🔸Don't you think that working all day and then partying all night is asking for trouble?
🔸Running fast without warming up properly is asking for trouble, and could easily cause a muscle strain.
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06 марта 2024 09:16
📒 No pain, no gain
📖Meaning
If we do not do hard work, and suffer some pain, we will achieve or gain nothing.
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05 марта 2024 09:48
📚young blood
✍🏾Meaning
If you say "young blood", you mean young people who have fresh, new ideas and lots of energy.
❗️For example
🔸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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04 марта 2024 07:00
📒 Nothing ventured, nothing gained
📖Meaning
We can't expect to achieve anything if we never take any risks.
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03 марта 2024 08:59
📚stick out like a sore thumb | stand out like a sore thumb
✍🏾Meaning
If someone sticks out like a sore thumb, or stands out like a sore thumb, everyone notices them because they're not the same as the people around them.
❗️For example
🔸Kenny stuck out like a sore thumb at the party. He was the only person wearing a suit and a tie.
🔸When I was in the Nigerian countryside I stood out like a sore thumb. I was the only white person around.
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02 марта 2024 07:20
📒 Money is the root of all evil
📖Meaning
According to this saying, all immorality and wickedness is caused by money. This saying is a misquotation, and the original version ("the love of money is the root of all evil") implies that all immorality and wickedness is caused by people loving money, not by money itself.
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29 февраля 2024 19:07
📒take on (1)
📖Meaning
If you take on something like a job, a responsibility, or anything involving a challenge, you agree to do it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Jim took on too much work, and he made himself sick with worry when he couldn't cope with it all.
💬 How much profit will we make if we take this printing job on?
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28 февраля 2024 20:17
💠 washed up | washed-up 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
having failed, having lost everything
❕For example
🔺Jim used to be a successful businessman, but now that his company's gone bankrupt and he's lost everything, he's washed up.
🔺Masako was shocked by the number of washed-up, homeless people she saw on the streets of American cities.
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27 февраля 2024 19:46
📒cut out (1)
📖Meaning
to remove an area of paper or cloth from a larger sheet by cutting
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My little girl likes cutting out the shapes of animals or fruits and colouring them in.
💬 She cut the recipe out and stuck it on the fridge.
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26 февраля 2024 20:37
💠 off the wall 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
eccentric, extreme, unconventional
❕For example
🔺Some of the clothes that young fashion designers create these days are so off the wall that no-one could possibly wear them in daily life.
🔺Some of Jenny's ideas seem pretty off the wall when you first hear them, but when she explains them you can see where she's coming from.
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25 февраля 2024 19:24
📒whip into
📖Meaning
to create strong emotions like excitement or anger, usually by giving a speech or a performance of some sort
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The protest leaders whipped the crowd into an angry mood with their speeches.
💬 Elvis Presley used to whip crowds of teenagers into a frenzy by moving his hips to the beat of the music.
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24 февраля 2024 19:08
💠 vegetate | veg out 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to do nothing
❕For example
🔺I never go out on Sundays. It's my day for doing nothing except vegetating.
🔺I ain't got no energy so I'm just gonna to sit in front of the TV and veg out.
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22 февраля 2024 07:18
📚fresh as a daisy
✍🏾Meaning
If you feel as fresh as a daisy, you feel energetic and lively.
❗️For example
🔸I might look awful first thing in the morning, but after a cup of tea and a bit of meditation I'm as fresh as a daisy.
🔸George looked terrible when he got to work, so Annie said, "Fresh as a daisy this morning, are we?" and George just grunted.
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