📒 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.
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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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💠 lardass 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an overweight person, esp. one with large buttocks
❕For example
🔺Madge has become such a lardass since she stopped exercising and started eating too much.
🔺Bill and Jill get on really well. They're both lardasses who love watching TV all day and eating snacks non-stop.
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📒dying for
📖Meaning
If you're dying for something, you really feel like it or you want it very much.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I'm dying for a cup of tea. Let's have a break and I'll make one.
💬 After working non-stop for a month, Charles said he was dying for a day off so he could stay home and do nothing.
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💠 turps 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
alcohol, alcoholic drinks
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🔺My mate Barry was on the turps for years before he started going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
🔺When I saw Bruce, I said "Geez mate, you don't look too hot. Get stuck into the turps last night, did ya?"
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📚dirt cheap
✍🏾Meaning
You can say something is dirt cheap if it costs very little money.
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🔸Be careful when you buy dirt cheap clothes. They could shrink easily or the colours could run when you wash them.
🔸Kevin is very tight with his money. If he has to buy someone a present, it's always something dirt cheap.
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📒 If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
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📚friends in high places
✍🏾Meaning
If you have friends in high places, you know people in powerful positions in business or government.
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📒 Ignorance of the law is no excuse
📖Meaning
It is no defence to say that we didn't know that something we did was illegal.
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📚a nest egg
✍🏾Meaning
If you have a nest egg, you have money put away for the future.
❗️For example
🔸When Indira inherited some money from her grandpa, she didn't spend it. She decided it was time she had a nest egg so she put it into an investment fund.
🔸Poor old Bill. He married a girl while he was in some foreign country and she got her hands on his nest egg, and now he's back here - with nothing.
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📒 Better safe than sorry
📖Meaning
We should be careful in a dangerous situation. It is better to stay safe than to have an accident (and be sorry about it). The full "grammatical" sentence would be: "It is better to be safe than to be sorry."
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📚give the green light
✍🏾Meaning
If you give something the green light, you give permission for it to be done, or allow it to happen.
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🔸The government has given the green light to our tree-planting project, so we can go ahead and start organizing things.
🔸As soon as our CEO gives the new product the green light, we'll start planning production.
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📒put forward (1)
📖Meaning
to offer an idea, an opinion, a suggestion, etc. for other people to consider
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💬 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.
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🔸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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📚a bad hair day
✍🏾Meaning
If you're having a bad hair day, everything seems to be going wrong for you.
❗️For example
🔸Poor Sue's in a terrible mood. I think she's having a bad hair day.
🔸I knew it was going to be a bad hair day when my car wouldn't start.
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📒 Tell me who you go with and I'll tell you who you are
📖Meaning
This proverb suggests that like minds stick together. If I know who your friends are, I know what your character is.
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📚a roller coaster | a roller-coaster ride
✍🏾Meaning
You can say an experience is a roller coaster, or a roller-coaster ride, if it involves many emotional highs and lows, or really good times alternating with really difficult times.
❗️For example
🔸The movie follows a young guy's emotional roller-coaster ride as he tries to come to terms with being gay in a small town in Australia.
🔸Eric writes about the roller coaster of rock and roll, with the highs of success and fame followed by the lows of drug addiction and depression.
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📒 The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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📒knock down (1)
📖Meaning
If something like a building or a wall is knocked down, it is destroyed on purpose.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The old hotel was knocked down so that a new one could be built.
💬If we knocked the tool shed down, we could put a vegetable garden there instead.
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💠 funk 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
(in phrase be in a funk) an unhappy, depressed mood
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🔺He's been in a real funk since his girlfriend left him.
🔺Everyone in the office has been in a funk since we heard that our company might be going bankrupt.
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📒turn into
📖Meaning
to change from one thing into another
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Isn't it incredible how caterpillars turn into butterflies, and tadpoles turn into frogs? Nature really is amazing!
💬 This guy is a great businessman. He turned a small company into a huge global corporation.
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💠 tight-ass 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
1) sby who spends as little money as possible, a miser
2) sby who's repressed and very strict about following society's rules
❕For example
🔺Our boss is a real tight-ass; we never get a Christmas bonus.
🔺Don't be such a tight-ass, Rob. Let yourself have some fun for a change.
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📒pull in
📖Meaning
If a train, a truck or a car pulls in, it arrives somewhere.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The train you want will be pulling in on platform 9.
💬 A truck pulled in to the yard and the driver jumped out.
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💠 ratty (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
easily annoyed or upset, irritable
❕For example
🔺Laura got drunk last night, and now she's got a hangover and she feels a bit ratty.
🔺I had a really bad day at work today, so sorry if I seem a little ratty tonight.
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📒run on (1)
📖Meaning
to use a particular type of fuel or a particular power source
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Why did it take so long for the big car companies to develop and market cars that run on electricity instead of fossil fuels?
💬 My new mobile phone runs on a battery that lasts for a month before it needs recharging.
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💠 upbeat 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
bright, cheerful
❕For example
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