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30 ноября 2024 09:27
📚pass the buck
✍🏾Meaning
If you pass the buck, you shift the responsibility for something to someone else in order to take the pressure off yourself.
❗️For example
🔸Don't try to pass the buck by blaming your staff. It's your job to hire good people in the first place, and it's your responsibility to make sure they're doing a good job once you've hired them.
🔸The president is passing the buck by saying the problems were caused by the previous government.
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28 ноября 2024 09:54
💠 kerfuffle 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a noisy dispute, a commotion
❕For example
🔺There was a kerfuffle at the club when the chairman decided to sack the manager. Lots of people were very angry.
🔺A few of the protesters got cuts and bruises in the kerfuffle when the police tried to arrest them.
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27 ноября 2024 10:32
📒 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.
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26 ноября 2024 10:59
💠 E | ecstasy 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an illegal amphetamine-like drug
❕For example
🔺Lots of people took E, or ecstasy, back in the eighties, before it was known to be dangerous.
🔺E is still used by a few reckless club-goers who are willing to risk damaging their brain in order to feel good for a couple of hours.
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25 ноября 2024 10:26
📒 Speech is silver, silence is golden
📖Meaning
Speaking is good but saying nothing is better. Discretion can be worth more than even eloquent words.
Note: speech (noun): the act of speaking | silver (noun): a greyish-white precious metal | gold (noun): a yellow precious metal (more valuable than silver) | This proverb is also found as: "Speech is silver but silence is golden."
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24 ноября 2024 10:39
💠 high 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
intoxicated, under the influence of a mind-altering drug
❕For example
🔺Jamal reckons anyone who gets caught driving a car while they're high on drugs should be banned from driving for a few years.
🔺Do you think that girl was high on drugs?
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23 ноября 2024 10:28
📒They also serve who only stand and wait
📖Meaning
We all have a place in this world and we all perform a function, regardless of our ability or disability. The word order of this sentence may make it more difficult to understand. In normal English it would be something like: "They (those people) who only stand and wait, also serve."
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21 ноября 2024 07:43
📚make a mountain out of a molehill
✍🏾Meaning
If you make a mountain out of a molehill, you make a small problem seem to be a much bigger problem.
❗️For example
🔸You've just got a cold so stop making a mountain out of a molehill. You're not going to die from it!
🔸Come on, you only lost $10. It's not that much, so I think you might be making a mountain out of a molehill.
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20 ноября 2024 10:17
📒stand down
📖Meaning
to resign or retire from a job or a position
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The CEO decided to stand down when he turned seventy so that a younger person could take over.
💬 Many people were demanding that the Minister of Defence stand down after he admitted some prisoners had been tortured.
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19 ноября 2024 11:21
📚vim and vigor
✍🏾Meaning
If you have vim and vigor, you have lots of energy and enthusiasm for life.
❗️For example
🔸Our grandmother is always full of vim and vigor when we go to visit her.
🔸If you want to have lots of vim and vigor when you get older, you need to eat good food and get plenty of exercise when you're young.
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18 ноября 2024 10:39
📒charge with
📖Meaning
If someone is charged with a crime, they are officially accused of committing it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The company's directors were arrested and charged with tax evasion.
💬 Even though they weren't charged with a crime, hundreds of people were kept for many years in a U.S. prison in Cuba called Guantanamo Bay.
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17 ноября 2024 11:52
📚talk through your hat
✍🏾Meaning
If you're talking through your hat, you're talking about something without knowing much about it, or you claim something is true when it isn't.
❗️For example
🔸Evan says that quantum physics proves that space and time don't really exist, but Kathy says he's talking through his hat.
🔸I proved that George was talking through his hat by checking on the internet to find out if what he said is true - and it isn't.
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16 ноября 2024 10:20
📒go back
📖Meaning
to return to a place, a person, a condition, etc.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I'm feeling much better, thanks. I should be able to go back to work tomorrow.
💬 Sandra left her passport at home, so she had to go back and get it.
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14 ноября 2024 08:57
📒Good wine needs no bush
📖Meaning
Something of good quality does not need to be advertised.
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13 ноября 2024 10:53
💠 app 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a computer software application
❕For example
🔺Check out this killer app I downloaded last night!
🔺Karen found this amazing app that makes you look really good in photos. It's great for Facebook photos and stuff.
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27 ноября 2024 19:22
📒act up
📖Meaning
If a part of your body or a piece of equipment acts up, it doesn't work properly.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My printer is acting up, so I'll have to get it fixed.
💬 I'll have to give the tennis a miss this week. My knee is acting up again.
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26 ноября 2024 20:54
📚jump out of your skin
✍🏾Meaning
You jump out of your skin when something suddenly shocks you and your whole body jumps.
❗️For example
🔸Luke was watching the clouds pass in front of the moon when I quietly snuck up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. He screamed and nearly jumped out of his skin!
🔸Ollie didn't know I was making some toast, and when it suddenly popped up just as he was walking past he jumped out of his skin. It was really funny!
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25 ноября 2024 20:48
📒back down
📖Meaning
to decide not to do something because of opposition, or because of pressure from authorities
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Thousands of people protested against the government's decision to allow logging in the forest, so the government had to back down.
💬 The workers didn't back down on their demands for higher wages even though the company threatened to sack them.
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24 ноября 2024 21:30
📚do you the world of good
✍🏾Meaning
If something does you the world of good, it makes you feel a lot better.
❗️For example
🔸That was a wonderful massage. It did me the world of good.
🔸Why don't you go for a walk in the forest. It'll do you the world of good to get away from everything for a while.
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23 ноября 2024 21:11
📒make of (1)
📖Meaning
to understand, or to make sense of, someone or something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Our new neighbours are a bit strange. I'm not quite sure what to make of them.
💬 What did you make of Joe's story? Do you think it really happened like that, or do you think he was making it up?
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20 ноября 2024 20:36
💠 bastard 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an unpleasant, despicable person
❕For example
🔺Gary can be a real selfish bastard sometimes.
🔺If he's such a bastard to you, Cindy, why don't you split up with him and find a nicer guy to go out with?
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19 ноября 2024 19:19
📒The nearer the Church, the farther from God
📖Meaning
1) The implication is that those who are most involved in any religious system, its organizers and high priests, are in danger of separating themselves from God.
2) If written as "The nearer the church, the farther from God", the implication might be a warning about placing too much importance on material buildings, and a reminder that God is everywhere.
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18 ноября 2024 20:29
💠 on the wagon 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
not drinking alcohol, esp. of an alcoholic or a heavy drinker
❕For example
🔺Benny wants to go on the wagon, so he's going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting tonight.
🔺How long have you been on the wagon this time?
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17 ноября 2024 21:35
📒Nothing so certain as death
📖Meaning
We can be 100% sure that we will die.
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16 ноября 2024 21:20
💠 grinding 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
dancing in a sexually arousing way
❕For example
🔺When Mario and Carla starting grinding on the dance floor, the others stood back and cheered them on.
🔺Pete says the thing that drives him totally wild is when a girl pulls him close and starts grinding on him.
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13 ноября 2024 20:53
📚under a cloud
✍🏾Meaning
If someone is under a cloud, they are suspected of having done something wrong.
❗️For example
🔸 Ever since the rumours of corruption started, the president has been under a cloud and he probably won't win another election.
🔸Henry has been under a cloud since the money disappeared and he bought a new car.
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12 ноября 2024 20:47
📒hold down
📖Meaning
to stop something from rising by pressing down on it or putting a heavy object on it
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The vet's assistant held down our dog while the vet gave her the injection.
💬 I held the board down with my foot while I hammered it in place.
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