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10 мая 2023 05:30
💠 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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08 мая 2023 17:31
📒 He who pays the piper calls the tune
📖Meaning
The person who pays a musician can decide what music he wants to hear. And the person who pays for any service has the right to say exactly what he wants.
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07 мая 2023 05:30
💠 poop 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
excrement (n.) | to defecate (v.)
❕For example
🔺Oh no! I've stepped in some smelly dog poop.
🔺We were driving home when my six year old son said, "Daddy, I need to poop ... badly."
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06 мая 2023 05:30
📒 Many a true word is spoken in jest
📖Meaning
Something said as a joke may often contain wisdom and truth.
Note: jest (noun): a joke; something said for amusement or comedy
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05 мая 2023 05:43
💠 sharp 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
well-dressed
❕For example
🔺Bernie looks real sharp in his new suit.
🔺If Glen spent a bit more on clothes, he could look really sharp.
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04 мая 2023 17:30
📚wheeling and dealing
✍🏾Meaning
If you're wheeling and dealing, you're involved in the complex world of making deals and exchanging favours in business or politics, or both.
❗️For example
🔸You'll need to be good at wheeling and dealing if you want to do well in politics.
🔸The amount of wheeling and dealing that's needed to sort out a contract with the local government is incredible.
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03 мая 2023 17:30
📒take away
📖Meaning
If you take something away, you take it somewhere else.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The waitress took away the dirty dishes and then brought our coffee to the table.
💬 Would you like to eat your pizza here or take it away?
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02 мая 2023 17:31
📚music to your ears
✍🏾Meaning
If something is music to your ears, it's just what you want to hear.
❗️For example
🔸When Halle heard Jason say "I do" at their wedding, it was music to her ears.
🔸After I'd done my final dive, the judges all said 9.9 or 10 and the crowd cheered. It was music to my ears!
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01 мая 2023 17:30
📒come out (2)
📖Meaning
to become known
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Many people would be shocked if the truth about the so-called terrorist attacks ever came out.
💬 The full story behind his arrest might never come out.
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30 апреля 2023 05:30
📚face the music
✍🏾Meaning
If someone has to face the music, they have to accept the consequences of doing something wrong.
❗️For example
🔸To avoid facing the music and accepting his punishment for doing something bad, our little boy will tell lies with the skill of a well-trained actor.
🔸Henry stole some money and bought a car, and when he realised he'd have to face the music he drove across the border to escape.
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29 апреля 2023 05:30
📒mistake for
📖Meaning
to wrongly think that a person or thing is someone or something else
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Fake Gucci bags look real and can easily be mistaken for genuine Gucci bags.
💬 There's a guy who lives near here who often gets mistaken for David Beckham. He looks just like him.
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28 апреля 2023 05:32
📚an ivory tower
✍🏾Meaning
You can say someone's in an ivory tower if they're in a place that separates them from everyday life, such as a university.
❗️For example
🔸People often complain that academics stuck in their ivory towers don't really understand the problems of the average person.
🔸Peter's dream is to get tenure in a university and spend the rest of his life hidden away in an ivory tower.
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26 апреля 2023 17:30
💠 aggro 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
aggressive, violent
❕For example
🔺If you're near a British pub around closing time, be careful. People who've had a few too many drinks can get pretty aggro and they might be looking for a fight.
🔺These young guys think they have to look tough and do this whole aggro thing to get some respect.
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25 апреля 2023 17:30
📒 Jack of all trades, master of none
📖Meaning
Suggesting that a person who can do many different types of work is probably not very good at any of them.
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09 мая 2023 17:30
📚(your) hands are tied
✍🏾Meaning
You can say your hands are tied if you're prevented from doing something that you'd normally have the power or the authority to do.
❗️For example
🔸The president says he'd like to spend more on schools in poor districts, but says his hands are tied by what he calls "budgetary restrictions".
🔸I'd really like to give you the contract, Mr Gambino, but my hands are tied because of those laws on giving contracts to people with criminal records.
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07 мая 2023 17:30
📒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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06 мая 2023 17:30
📚dressed (up) to the nines
✍🏾Meaning
If you are dressed to the nines, or dressed up to the nines, you are wearing very smart clothes for a special occasion.
❗️For example
🔸Have you seen Harry? He's dressed to the nines and he looks amazing.
🔸Everyone was dressed up to the nines for the Academy Awards, with the men in tuxedos and the women in evening gowns.
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05 мая 2023 17:30
📒insist on
📖Meaning
If you insist on something, you say that you must have it or it must be done.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We used to sell on credit, but after not being paid a few times we now insist on payment in advance.
💬Our youngest son insists on putting tomato sauce on just about everything he eats.
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04 мая 2023 06:58
📒 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
📖Meaning
Even though we may want to say "No" to temptation (doing something bad), our body may be unable to resist it.
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03 мая 2023 05:30
💠 straight 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
heterosexual, not gay
❕For example
🔺We have two sons; Ben and James. Ben is gay and James is straight and we love them both dearly.
🔺Why do we feel we have to label people as straight or gay or whatever? Aren't human beings a bit too complicated for that?
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02 мая 2023 05:30
📒 A bad penny always turns up
📖Meaning
Bad or nasty people have a habit of showing up or returning.
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30 апреля 2023 17:30
💠 dope (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
heroin, cannabis; any illegal drug
❕For example
🔺Harry's been arrested again for buying dope.
🔺We had to send some students for counselling on the dangers of using drugs after they were caught smoking dope in the toilets.
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29 апреля 2023 17:31
📒 If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
📖Meaning
If you cannot win against someone or something, it may be easier or better to join forces with them.
Note: 'em (informal contraction) = them
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28 апреля 2023 17:31
💠 jailbait 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
someone below the legal age of consent
❕For example
🔺He claims he had no idea the girl was jailbait, and insists that she told him she was nineteen years old.
🔺One of the greatest novels in the English language is about a man who falls for a girl even though he knows she's jailbait. It's called "Lolita".
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27 апреля 2023 17:30
📒 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
📖Meaning
An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.
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27 апреля 2023 05:31
📒wear out (2)
📖Meaning
If something wears you out, it makes you feel tired and lacking in energy.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Helen doesn't really like teaching young kids. She says the job really wears her out.
💬 It's no wonder that you get worn out. You're raising three kids and you have a full-time job.
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26 апреля 2023 05:30
📚on your last legs | on its last legs
✍🏾Meaning
If you say you're on your last legs, it can mean you're close to exhaustion, or it can mean you're close to death. If a thing is on its last legs, it's close to breaking or wearing out.
❗️For example
🔸Bobby looks like he's on his last legs. Do you think he can make it to the top of the mountain?
🔸My old printer is on its last legs. It's time I got a new one.
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25 апреля 2023 05:30
📒mixed up in
📖Meaning
to be involved in something illegal or immoral, such as organised crime or corruption
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Jake was mixed up in the drugs trade when he got arrested for selling marijuana.
💬 Several high-ranking generals were mixed up in organised crime and oil smuggling.
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