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24 декабря 2024 19:54
📒 Fortune favours the bold
📖Meaning
Successful people are often those who are prepared to take risks.
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23 декабря 2024 10:07
💠 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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22 декабря 2024 10:18
📒 You don't keep a dog and bark yourself
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If you pay someone to do a job, or you have servants to do it, it makes no sense to do the job yourself.
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21 декабря 2024 12:51
💠 measly 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
very small in amount or very few in number
❕For example
🔺If you leave a measly tip in your hotel's restaurant, you won't get very good service the next time you go in there.
🔺Linda was sure she'd be elected class president, but she only got five measly votes.
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19 декабря 2024 07:44
📒watch out
📖Meaning
If you tell someone to watch out, you tell them to be careful or warn them of a danger.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Watch out! There's a car coming! Get off the road.
💬 There are lots of thieves on these buses, so if you don't watch out you'll lose your wallet.
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17 декабря 2024 21:11
📚feather your own nest
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If you feather your own nest, you use your position or your job illegally for personal gain.
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🔸Kelly says it's accepted in many developing countries that a government official will use their position to feather their own nest, and this is why government salaries are kept so low.
🔸In some countries a person who feathers their own nest isn't seen as being dishonest or corrupt; they're seen as being clever.
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16 декабря 2024 19:38
📒hold out (1)
📖Meaning
If you hold something out, you hold it where other people can reach it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The beggar looked up and held out her tin, so I dropped some coins in and she gave me a beautiful smile.
💬 He held his glass out and the waiter filled it up with wine.
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15 декабря 2024 20:23
📚day to day
✍🏾Meaning
If something happens day to day, it's part of your usual daily routine.
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🔸While you're away you'll have to pay for all your day-to-day expenses yourself, except for the hotel.
🔸She can deal with the small problems she faces day to day, but if there's a major crisis she usually panics.
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14 декабря 2024 19:46
📒round up
📖Meaning
If you round a number or an amount up to a certain level such as a whole number or the nearest dollar, you bring it up to that level.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If the amount is $39.95, round it up to $40.00.
💬 If it's over the 50-cent mark, you can round the amount up to the nearest dollar.
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11 декабря 2024 21:40
💠 jollies 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
fun, thrills, enjoyment
❕For example
🔺I can't see the attraction myself, but Bill says he gets his jollies from building and flying model planes and helicopters.
🔺A lot of young people get their jollies from doing adventure stuff like white-water rafting and bungee-jumping.
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10 декабря 2024 20:44
📒 Boys will be boys
📖Meaning
This somewhat humorous saying is often used to excuse male behaviour (of both boys and adult men).
Note: pray (verb) = ask for help from God; give thanks to God | This saying may be more easily understood if rephrased as: "The person that wants to learn to pray should go to sea."
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09 декабря 2024 20:28
💠 ear candy 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
pleasant-sounding music
❕For example
🔺Everywhere you go these days you hear ear candy. Even in the toilets in a department store you hear this background music all the time.
🔺 Suzie loves filling her Ipod with her favourite ear candy and going for a long ride on her bicycle.
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08 декабря 2024 21:03
📒 He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea
📖Meaning
The sea is supremely powerful, and can be a terrifying and awe-inspiring place.
Note: pray (verb) = ask for help from God; give thanks to God | This saying may be more easily understood if rephrased as: "The person that wants to learn to pray should go to sea."
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07 декабря 2024 20:33
💠 cuppa 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a hot drink, cup of tea, cup of coffee
❕For example
🔺As soon as I get home, I'm going to have a nice hot cuppa.
🔺 Would you like to come in for a cuppa?
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24 декабря 2024 04:25
📚keep your nose clean
✍🏾Meaning
If you keep your nose clean, you stay out of trouble by making sure you don't do anything wrong.
❗️For example
🔸Our son Michael is in trouble with the police again. I really wish he'd learn to keep his nose clean.
🔸It's important for sport's stars to keep their noses clean because they make a lot of money for endorsing products, and they could lose this income if they got into trouble with the law.
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22 декабря 2024 19:18
📒get on (1)
📖Meaning
to step onto a bus, train, ship, etc.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I watched my son help an old lady get on the bus, and felt proud of my boy.
💬 The only way to get on the boat was to walk along a narrow plank that went over the water.
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21 декабря 2024 20:59
📚hit the hay | hit the sack
✍🏾Meaning
If you hit the hay, or hit the sack, you go to bed.
❗️For example
🔸It's after midnight so it's time I hit the hay.
🔸You look really tired. What time did you hit the sack last night?
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18 декабря 2024 12:20
📒 Truth is stranger than fiction
📖Meaning
Real life can be more amazing and difficult to believe than made-up stories.
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17 декабря 2024 08:40
💠 narc | nark 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a narcotics officer, a police officer working in drug trade suppression
❕For example
🔺The narcs raided the dealer's apartment after being tipped off by his neighbours.
🔺There are a lot of narks working at the airport.
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16 декабря 2024 11:10
📒 One tongue is enough for a woman
📖Meaning
Some people think that women talk too much. If they already talk too much, they don't need another tongue. One tongue is sufficient (but see Origin below).
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15 декабря 2024 11:34
💠 ice (3) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an illegal drug; crystalline methamphetamine, speed
❕For example
🔺Tommy was arrested for buying ice from a guy who turned out to be a cop.
🔺Ice is one of the most dangerous street drugs around at the moment.
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14 декабря 2024 06:29
📒 A good paymaster never wants workmen
📖Meaning
An employer who pays well is never short of staff.
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12 декабря 2024 09:20
📚zebra crossing
✍🏾Meaning
A zebra crossing is a pedestrian crossing that is marked on the road with painted black and white stripes.
❗️For example
🔸Visitors to Britain are sometimes confused when they're told there's a zebra crossing up ahead. Some even expect to see a zebra walking across the road.
🔸If someone steps onto a zebra crossing, all cars must stop and wait for them to cross the road.
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11 декабря 2024 09:35
📒entrust to
📖Meaning
to give somebody responsibility for something of importance or value
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Do you think we should entrust the discovery and development of new drugs to profit-seeking private companies?
💬 The job of running the government is entrusted to politicians.
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10 декабря 2024 07:16
📚off the cuff
✍🏾Meaning
If you speak off the cuff, you speak without planning what you will say beforehand.
❗️For example
🔸She wasn't expecting to win, so she hadn't prepared a speech, but she still managed to say a few words off the cuff after being given the award.
🔸The prime minister keeps making off-the-cuff remarks that get him into trouble.
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09 декабря 2024 10:50
📒appeal to
📖Meaning
If something appeals to you, you like it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The small apartments will appeal to single people more than families.
💬 In the nineteen sixties, Asian philosophies and religions appealed to young people seeking alternatives to Western consumerism and materialism.
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08 декабря 2024 11:05
📚a kick in the teeth
✍🏾Meaning
If you get a kick in the teeth, something bad happens to you or you feel that you've been treated poorly.
❗️For example
🔸I'd just lost my job, so hearing that I had to move out of my apartment as well was a real kick in the teeth.
🔸Gerry said that being told to get out of his apartment was a kick in the teeth after spending so much on doing it up.
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07 декабря 2024 08:24
📒come on (3)
📖Meaning
If a TV or radio show comes on, it starts.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 What time does the football come on?
💬 The news comes on at 7 o'clock.
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