English Language

26 февраля 2023 04:30

📚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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25 февраля 2023 04:30

📒fill up (2)



📖Meaning
to fill someone's stomach with food

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Sam says there's nothing like a big bowl of hot porridge to fill you up in the morning.

💬 Whenever I visit my mum, she fills me up with all the things she made for us when we were kids.

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24 февраля 2023 16:30

💠 bent 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
dishonest, corrupt


❕For example

🔺We always knew those cops were bent, but we've never had the evidence to prove it.

🔺Even though she'd been cheating on her taxes for years, Cathy didn't consider herself bent. She said everybody did it.

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23 февраля 2023 16:30

📒 First things first


📖Meaning
1) Be patient: do things in the logical order. 2) Do the most important things before the less important things.

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23 февраля 2023 04:30

📒knock out (1)



📖Meaning
If you are knocked out, you are hit so hard that you lose consciousness.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round and won the fight.

💬 He slipped over in the bathroom and knocked himself out.

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22 февраля 2023 16:30

💠 chicken out 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to change one's mind about doing something because of fear


❕For example

🔺I was going to go sky diving, but I chickened out at the last minute.

🔺Gary said he felt too sick to go bungee jumping, but his friends said he was just chickening out.

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21 февраля 2023 16:30

📒 The road to hell is paved with good intentions



📖Meaning
People who believe they are doing good can end up doing bad (the law of unintended consequences). 2) There is no value in simply planning to do good if you don't actually do it.
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20 февраля 2023 16:30

💠 turps 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
alcohol, alcoholic drinks


❕For example

🔺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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19 февраля 2023 16:30

📒 Patience surpasses learning



📖Meaning
1) The ability to wait for a long time without getting angry is even better than education. 2) the capacity to accept delay without getting upset will achieve more than study in the end
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18 февраля 2023 16:30

💠 old school | old-school 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
from a previous period, and usually highly-regarded


❕For example

🔺I like the Nintendo games that are old school the best, like Mario.

🔺That song is an example of old-school rap at its best!
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17 февраля 2023 16:30

📒 Brevity is the soul of wit



📖Meaning
The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.
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15 февраля 2023 16:30

💠 take 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
stolen money or goods


❕For example

🔺The take from the bank robbery was about ten thousand dollars.

🔺The cops have caught the thieves, but they're still looking for the take.
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14 февраля 2023 16:30

📒 Rome wasn't built in a day



📖Meaning
All things take time to create. And great things like the city of Rome take a very long time. So we shouldn't expect to accomplish something or achieve success immediately.
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14 февраля 2023 04:51

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13 февраля 2023 16:30

💠 ivories (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
teeth


❕For example

🔺Those Hollywood movie stars have beautiful ivories. They must spend a fortune on dentists.

🔺I've been brushing my teeth twice a day for forty years, but my ivories don't look anything like Brad's. What have I been doing wrong?
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25 февраля 2023 16:30

📒 If you play with fire you get burned



📖Meaning
If you fool around with something that is potentially dangerous, you must expect to get harmed.


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24 февраля 2023 17:04

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24 февраля 2023 05:49

📚like a fish out of water



✍🏾Meaning
You feel like a fish out of water if you're surrounded by people who are different to you, and it's making you feel a little uncomfortable.


❗️For example

🔸I was the only black person in a church full of white people, and I felt like a fish out of water at first. But lots of people came up and talked to me after the service, and I soon felt quite at home.

🔸Sayoko travels to a lot of unusual places. She says feeling like a fish out of water is sometimes interesting.
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23 февраля 2023 11:00

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22 февраля 2023 18:13

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22 февраля 2023 04:30

📚chew the fat | chew the rag


✍🏾Meaning
If you chew the fat, or chew the rag, you have a long, friendly chat with someone.


❗️For example

🔸I sometimes call Wendy late at night and we chew the fat for an hour or so before going to sleep.

🔸Why don't you come over on Sunday morning and I'll make some breakfast and we can chew the rag for a couple of hours?

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21 февраля 2023 04:30

📒go down (3)




📖Meaning
When the sun or the moon goes down, it gets lower and lower in the sky until it disappears below the horizon.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 What time does the sun go down?

💬 We sat on the beach and watched the sun go down.
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20 февраля 2023 04:30

📚wide of the mark



✍🏾Meaning
If something is wide of the mark, it isn't true or accurate, or it misses the target.


❗️For example

🔸The manager expected sales to double this year, but his prediction was wide of the mark. They only increased by ten per cent.

🔸Ronaldo's first shot was wide of the mark, but his second one went right into the back of the net for a goal.
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19 февраля 2023 04:30

📒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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18 февраля 2023 04:30

📚come a cropper



✍🏾Meaning
If you come a cropper, you fall over, or you make a mistake which has serious consequences for you.


❗️For example

🔸The prime minister came a cropper while coming down the steps and hurt his backside.

🔸A radio announcer really came a cropper when he made a racist remark. He lost his job and now he can't get another one.
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17 февраля 2023 04:31

📒delve into



📖Meaning
to try to find information by examining something thoroughly

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Reporters will often delve into a famous person's past, hoping to find something sensational like an arrest record or a history of drug abuse.

💬One of the hospital's nurses has been arrested for giving secret medical records to a lawyer who was delving into someone's medical history.
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15 февраля 2023 04:31

📚a fair-weather friend



✍🏾Meaning
A fair-weather friend is a person who will only be your friend when things are going well for you.


❗️For example

🔸I had lots of friends when I was rich and successful, but when the money was gone it became clear that most were only fair-weather friends.

🔸Would she still want to know you if you were sick or in trouble, or is she just one of those fair-weather friends?
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14 февраля 2023 14:32

😃What do you want?

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14 февраля 2023 04:30

📒move up (2)



📖Meaning
to move someone to a higher position, a higher level, a higher ranking, etc.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Debbie's teacher said she'd made great progress this term, so she's moving Debbie up to the next grade.

💬 After winning the French Open, Rafael moved up in the rankings.
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13 февраля 2023 06:39

🤑How much money do you want to earn?