English Language

20 июня 2023 17:30

📚zero-sum game


✍🏾Meaning
A zero-sum game is a situation in which any gain by one side or person is at the expense of a loss to another side or person involved in the situation.


❗️For example

🔸The stock market has become a giant zero-sum game in which one investor gains what another investor loses.


🔸In a zero-sum game, if you add the total gains of the participants and the total losses of the participants, the sum will always be zero.

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19 июня 2023 17:30

📒 Bad news travels fast


📖Meaning
"Bad news" means news about "bad" things like accidents, death, illness etc. People tend to tell this type of news quickly. But "good news" (passing an exam, winning some money, getting a job etc) travels more slowly.

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18 июня 2023 17:31

📚talk turkey


✍🏾Meaning
If you talk turkey, you discuss something seriously, usually to do with business or money.


❗️For example

🔸After the owner had shown him around the apartment, Shane decided it was just what he wanted, so he said, "OK, I'm interested. Let's talk turkey."


🔸I started to say something about the deal, but Mr Hamilton said, "Not now, my boy. We never talk turkey at the dinner table."

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17 июня 2023 17:30

📒 All that glitters is not gold


📖Meaning
The attractive exterior of something is not a good indicator of its real nature. It may look valuable, but not be valuable.

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16 июня 2023 17:30

📚easy come, easy go


✍🏾Meaning
You can say "easy come, easy go" to express the idea that if something comes to someone easily, such as money they get without working hard for it, they can lose it just as easily and it won't matter to them much.


❗️For example

🔸Harry's very easy-going, especially when it comes to money. It's easy come, easy go, as far as he's concerned.


🔸The share market's been falling recently, and I've lost a fair bit of money, but it's easy come, easy go, really, because it's just money I've earned from shares in the past.

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15 июня 2023 17:30

📒 “The secret of discipline is motivation. When a person is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”


📖Meaning
When you intrinsically have desire toward something you'll do it at any cost.

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14 июня 2023 17:30

📒talk out of

📖Meaning
If you talk someone out of something, you persuade them not to do it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 My uncle is a drug addict, and there's nothing I can say to talk him out of it. He says he's too old to stop now.

💬My family tried to talk me out of becoming a musician, but I wouldn't change my mind. I was determined to have a career in music.

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13 июня 2023 17:31

💠 cushy 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
easy, undemanding (of a job or a lifestyle)


❕For example

🔺I'd like one of those cushy government jobs with loads of holidays and not much real work.

🔺Steve quit the cushy job he had in his father's company. He says it didn't challenge him enough.

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12 июня 2023 17:31

📒act out

📖Meaning
If you act out, you express your feelings through acts or words.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Jim often gets into trouble because he acts out his emotions without thinking about the consequences.

💬We can all have violent thoughts and aggressive feelings sometimes, but society doesn't usually allow us to act them out.

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11 июня 2023 17:30

💠 oomph 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
power or force


❕For example

🔺No wonder he was knocked out. The punch that got him had a lot of oomph behind it.

🔺We need to put a bit more oomph into our presentation. It seems a bit weak.

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10 июня 2023 17:30

📒stand out



📖Meaning
If somebody stands out, they are easy to see because there is something unusual about the way they look or the way they behave.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 One of my sons says he likes people to notice him, and his green hair certainly makes him stand out in a crowd.

💬Most packaging is designed to stand out on the shelf and be easy to notice in a shop.
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English Language

09 июня 2023 17:30

💠 nick (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to steal something


❕For example

🔺I left my bike in front of the bank while I went inside to pay some bills. When I came back out it was gone. Some bastard had nicked it!

🔺Did you ever nick money from your mum's purse when you were a kid?

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08 июня 2023 17:37

📒put forward (1)



📖Meaning
to offer an idea, an opinion, a suggestion, etc. for other people to consider

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 He put forward an interesting argument, but no-one was really convinced by it.

💬 If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to put them forward and they'll be given our full consideration.

💬 Many of the suggestions that have been put forward are excellent.
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08 июня 2023 11:01

📚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.


❗️For example

🔸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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English Language

06 июня 2023 17:30

📒 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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20 июня 2023 05:30

💠 user 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a person who regularly takes mind-altering drugs


❕For example

🔺Kelly's been a user for many years and she'd like to stop using drugs altogether, but she can't do it by herself.

🔺All the people who go to Narcotics Anonymous meetings are users who are recovering, so they really understand the problems other drug addicts have.

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19 июня 2023 11:27

📒have on (2)

📖Meaning
If you have something on at a certain time, you've arranged to do something at that time.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 If you don't have anything on tonight, we could see a movie if you like.

💬I have a lot on tomorrow, but maybe we could meet on Thursday.

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18 июня 2023 05:30

💠 bloody 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an intensifying expletive used before an adjective, adverb or noun; very, really; total, complete


❕For example

🔺It's bloody hot in here. And now the bloody air conditioner won't work. Bloody hell!

🔺You'd have to be a bloody idiot to vote for a party that's just ruined the economy.

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17 июня 2023 05:30

📒do about

📖Meaning
If you do something about a problem, you do something to fix it or solve it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 My printer won't work and I'm not sure what to do about it.

💬What do you think we should do about our company's falling market share?

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16 июня 2023 05:30

💠 quad (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a quadruplet, one of four babies born together from the same mother


❕For example

🔺I'm teaching a set of quads in my kindergarten class this term, and I can't tell them apart. All four look exactly the same!

🔺After getting fertility treatment, Jill gave birth to a set of four healthy quads. She's been home with them for one week and she's already exhausted!

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15 июня 2023 10:42

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14 июня 2023 09:30

📚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.


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13 июня 2023 06:01

📒 Cold hands, warm heart


📖Meaning
A cool, reserved exterior may hide a kind heart.

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12 июня 2023 07:30

📚(have) egg on your face


✍🏾Meaning
You will have egg on your face if you've said or done something wrong, and it's made you feel embarrassed or stupid.


❗️For example

🔸Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.


🔸The police force had egg on its face because they arrested and beat up an innocent guy who had the same name as a suspect they were looking for.

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11 июня 2023 05:30

📒 A good man is hard to find


📖Meaning
This saying talks about the difficulties for women in finding a suitable male partner.

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10 июня 2023 08:07

📚hard to come by



✍🏾Meaning
If something is hard to come by, it is difficult to find.


❗️For example

🔸A good cheap hotel is hard to come by in London these days.


🔸Good jobs in the airline industry have been hard to come by recently.
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09 июня 2023 05:31

📒 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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08 июня 2023 11:10

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07 июня 2023 17:30

💠 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.

🔺When Peter came back from the bathroom, some guy was talking to Leanne. Peter said, "Beat it, pal! She's with me."

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06 июня 2023 05:30

📒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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