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31 июля 2017 17:20

Idiom of the Day

🔰under wraps

☑️Meaning: If something is under wraps, it's being kept secret.

✨For example:

🔺The organisers keep the name of the winner under wraps until it's announced on the show.

🔺Our new products are always under wraps until their official launch because we don't want other companies seeing them and copying them.

✔️Note:
The most common collocation for this idiom is "to keep (something) under wraps".
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29 июля 2017 21:54

Idiom of the Day

📗safe and sound

✔️Meaning: If you are safe and sound, nothing has harmed you even though you could have been in danger.

✨For example:

➖It was a dangerous journey but luckily we all got back safe and sound.

➖The package took a long time to get here, but it arrived safe and sound in the end.

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29 июля 2017 10:58

Idiom of the Day

🔰show your true colours | show your true colors

☑️Meaning: You show your true colours if you show what you're really like, or you reveal your true character.

✨For example:

🔹Bob always acts like he's a strong, brave guy, but when the hurricane hit he showed his true colors. He was too scared to go check on old Mrs Flowers, our next-door neighbour.

🔹The players showed their true colours when they came back from three goals down to win the match.

💥Note: 1. "Show your true colours" is British spelling and "show your true colors" is American spelling. 2. Variations on this idiom include "see somebody in their true colours" and "show somebody in their true colours".
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28 июля 2017 03:44

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27 июля 2017 15:35

Slang of the Day

🔰redneck
🇺🇸American English Offensive

✔️Meaning: a lower-class white person from a rural background

📌For example:

🔺We were driving through Alabama when we saw some rednecks riding in the back of a pick-up truck drinking whiskey from a bottle.

🔺If it wasn't for the redneck vote, the Republicans wouldn't have won the election.

✨Origin: Originally referred to working-class white people from the southeastern states of the USA. These people often worked outside as farmers or labourers, and they'd often have red necks as a result of sunburn.

💥Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

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25 июля 2017 14:08

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24 июля 2017 03:49

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23 июля 2017 08:27

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21 июля 2017 17:10

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🔰That's quite something

💢We use this expression to show we are impressed by something special we have seen or heard.

💥Example 1
My cousin started his own company and was a millionaire by the age of 20.
That's quite something, isn't it?

💥Example 2
What do you think of this Van Gogh painting? Do you like it?
It's quite something, isn't it? I love the colours and the flowers.

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21 июля 2017 09:47

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19 июля 2017 19:52

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19 июля 2017 08:47

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18 июля 2017 04:03

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17 июля 2017 17:08

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16 июля 2017 03:29

Idiom of the Day

🔰at a loose end
🇬🇧British English

☑️Meaning: If you're at a loose end, you have nothing to do.

📍For example:

🔺If I'm ever at a loose end, I look for a good book to read.

🔺Give me a call if you're at a loose end and we'll go and do something.

💥Note: This is similar to the American idiom "at loose ends", though the American idiom seems to indicate a state of unhappy restlessness that results from having nothing to do, while the British idiom simply means having nothing to do.

✨Variety: This idiom is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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31 июля 2017 07:44

Slang of the Day

📌total
American and Australian English

☑️Meaning: to completely destroy, to wreck

✨For example:

➖My son was in an accident last night, and thankfully he wasn't hurt. He totalled our car, though.

➖Mandy's car was totalled when a huge tree fell on it in the hurricane.

✔️Variety: This slang term is typically used in American and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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29 июля 2017 21:47

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🔰ill
🇺🇸American English

☑️Meaning: good, excellent

✨For example:

🔹The new Neo album is ill, man!

🔹Corrie's new jacket is ill. Where can I get one?

💥Note: This usage is fairly obscure U.S. teen slang and it's not widely known or understood in the larger community.

📌Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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28 июля 2017 03:51

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27 июля 2017 17:10

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📕The bottom line is quality !!!

Michelle So you think our quality give us an edge over our competitors ?
Dan That's right.
Michelle What do you think about TG Co. next to our booth ?
Dan I must say I'm quite impressed by their approach to business.
Michelle I feel the same way. Their way of doing business is quite aggressive.
Dan But I don't think they'll go very far if they don't improve the quality of their products.
Michelle So the bottom line is quality.

💥Explanation :

The bottom line - The most important fact in a situation


📌Example : The bottom line is that we need another ten thousand dollars to complete the project.

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27 июля 2017 08:10

🍂God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.
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25 июля 2017 06:49

🍂The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

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23 июля 2017 18:06

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22 июля 2017 04:02

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21 июля 2017 13:37

🍂You are remembered for the rules you break.

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21 июля 2017 07:46

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19 июля 2017 19:25

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19 июля 2017 06:47

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18 июля 2017 04:02

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17 июля 2017 09:14

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15 июля 2017 12:22

Phrase of the day

📒I can't put my finger on it📒

📝We use this expression to say that we can't explain or fully understand something.

Written: ✖️Spoken: ✔️Formal: ✖️Informal: ✔️

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🅰️She looks different, doesn't she?
🅱️Yes, I can't put my finger on it. Has she changed her hair?

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🅰️Why don't you like Sam?
🅱️I don't know. I can't put my finger on it. I just feel we can't trust him.
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