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01 января 2018 16:42

Idiom of the Day

💥once in a blue moon

✍🏾Meaning:
If something happens once in a blue moon, it happens very rarely.

❗️For example:

🔺We hardly ever go out these days, though once in a blue moon we might go and see a movie.

🔺My daughter lives in Brazil and she only comes to see us once in a blue moon; maybe every two or three years if we're lucky.
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31 декабря 2017 20:22

Slang of the Day

💥lav
🇬🇧British English

✍🏾Meaning:
toilet, lavatory

▪️For example:

🔺Please, miss. Zahra wants to go to the lav.

🔺Nigel's gone to the lav, but he'll be back in a minute.

👁‍🗨Origin: short for "lavatory"

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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31 декабря 2017 07:00

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰read out

✍🏾Meaning:
if you read something out, you read it aloud so everyone can hear it.

〽️For example:

▪️read out sth
🔺The prisoners listened as the warder read out their names and numbers.

▪️read sth out
🔺Mario was proud when his teacher asked him to read out his poem so everyone could hear it.
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30 декабря 2017 16:07

Slang of the Day

💥nut | nutter
🇬🇧British English Offensive

✍🏾Meaning:
a crazy or strange person

〰For example:

🔺Howard turned into a real nut in his old age. He wouldn't go outside because he thought alien beings from another planet were after him.

🔺How did a nutter like Gordon get to be office manager?

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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28 декабря 2017 19:19

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28 декабря 2017 16:28

Quote Of The Day

➰In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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27 декабря 2017 19:26

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27 декабря 2017 18:35

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27 декабря 2017 18:30

Word of the Day

💥Ignoble [ig·no·ble] adj.

✍🏾Not honorable in character or purpose; shameful.

🔺 “An ignoble act.”
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27 декабря 2017 05:03

Slang of the Day

💥threads
🇺🇸American English

💢Meaning: clothes

❗️For example:

🔺Check out Terry's new threads. He looks really sharp in that outfit.

🔺Those threads Jack's wearing look pretty expensive.

📌Note: usually refers to men's clothes

🗨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 декабря 2017 18:57

Idiom of the Day

💥get a look in

✍🏾Meaning:
If you get a look in, you get a fair chance to do something.

➰For example:

🔺When Roger was playing at his best, no-one else taking part in a tournament would get a look in. He'd win every time.

🔺With so many graduates from top universities trying to get the job, someone like me wouldn't get a look in.

🗨Note: Usually used in the negative, as in "I didn't get a look in..."
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25 декабря 2017 15:25

Word of the Day

💥Materialism

✍🏾 the belief that having money and possessions is the most important thing in life
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24 декабря 2017 11:38

Slang of the Day

💥uncool

✍🏾Meaning: not good, not acceptable, not fashionable

📌For example:

🔺My kids think it's uncool to be dropped off at a party by their parents, so they get me to drop them off a few houses away so their friends can't see.

🔺Doesn't Kerry know that it's uncool to smoke in other people's apartments these days?
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24 декабря 2017 08:27

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰remind of

✍🏾Meaning:
If something reminds you of something else, it makes you think of it.

❗️For example:

◾️remind sb of sth/sb
▪️The smell of eucalyptus reminds me of holidays I had in the Australian bush when I was a kid.

◽️be reminded of sth
▫️Whenever she hears birds singing, Jill says she's reminded of the beauty of nature.
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20 декабря 2017 08:57

Slang of the Day

💥weirdo

✍🏾Meaning: a strange, eccentric or weird person

📌For example:

🔺Back when me and my friends were teenage punk rockers, my grandpa used to say we looked like "bloody weirdos".

🔺Have you ever seen the weirdos who go to those evangelical Christian meetings? They have fits and speak in tongues and play with snakes and do other weird stuff.
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31 декабря 2017 21:31

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31 декабря 2017 19:50

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30 декабря 2017 20:05

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29 декабря 2017 04:19

Idiom of the Day

💥all and sundry

✍🏾Meaning:
everyone
one and all
all the people, collectively and individually
everybody without discrimination
people in general

❗️Example Sentences:

🔺I don’t want all and sundry to come to know about our differences.
🔺Only those participating in the event have to come tomorrow. All and sundry need not come.
🔺Making this news public would mean that all and sundry would know that our company is not doing well.
🔺All and sundry from that town attended the event as the local sportsman was felicitated for his achievements.
🔺She told all and sundry about their poor financial state and why she could do nothing about it.
🔺After the minister made some inappropriate comments, he received a lot of criticism from all and sundry and had to apologize.
🔺The movie star had a big wedding and all and sundry from the film industry were invited.
🔺Drinks and refreshments were served to all and sundry while they waited for the main event to start.
🔺I do not think all and sundry should be knowing about this new development. We should keep it to ourselves.

🗨Origin
The phrase originated around the late 1400s.
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28 декабря 2017 18:40

Slang of the Day

💥24/7

✍🏾Definition :
All the time; always available; without a break

🔺Example
1) In New York City, a lot of stores are open 24/7.

2) I had to move because my neighbors played loud dance music 24/7.

📌Etymology
Some convenience stores are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The phrase is used for anything that is always (or nearly always) available.

➰Synonyms
around the clock
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28 декабря 2017 04:30

Idiom of the Day

💥to beat a dead horse.

✍🏾Definition:
to keep on doing something after there is no point in doing so

❗️Examples:

🔺You're just beating a dead horse. He's never going to change his mind.
🔺I finally realized that I was beating a dead horse. Nothing I could say was going to make any difference.
🔺Relying on new or existing manufacturing jobs to save the day down the road isn't just beating a dead horse, it's laying down beside it.
🔺I also think that we may have reached the point of beating a dead horse ... so with thanks and love to all, I now respectfully close this thread.

📝Explanation:
The word beat in this idiom means hit. An alternative expression is to flog a dead horse. (Hitting a dead horse is not going to make it move!)
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27 декабря 2017 19:04

Phrasal Verb of the Day

💥drive away

Meaning:
✍🏾to cause someone or something to leave a place

〰For example:

🔴drive sb/sth away

🔺The government's strict new laws on currency trading will drive foreign investors away.

⚫️drive away sb/sth

▪️The farmers are using automatic air guns to drive away the birds.

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27 декабря 2017 18:34

اگهی استخدام
کارشناس ارشد مترجمی زبان
دارندگان مدرک آیلتس با نمره بالای 6.5 و تافل بالای 90
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27 декабря 2017 15:53

Idiom of the Day

📚stick out like a sore thumb | stand out like a sore thumb

✍🏾Meaning: If someone sticks out like a sore thumb, or stands out like a sore thumb, everyone notices them because they're not the same as the people around them.

➰For example:

🔺Kenny stuck out like a sore thumb at the party. He was the only person wearing a suit and a tie.

🔺When I was in the Nigerian countryside I stood out like a sore thumb. I was the only white person around.
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26 декабря 2017 15:35

Word of the Day

💥Affinity

✍🏾A spontaneous or natural liking or sympathy for someone or something.

🔺“He has an affinity for science fiction movies.”
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25 декабря 2017 17:17

Story of the Day

📓The Banana Peel and the Slipper

✍🏾Once there was a very snobbish lady named Gertrude who always wore yellow slippers.They were covered in rhinestones & they were made of plush velvet,She used to wear flip flops, until one day she stubbed her toe and the tip came off. So after that she started wearing slippers to hide her toe. She found the slippers at a thrift store for $2.65 plus tax. She also found a nightgown for $1.99, which she wore everywhere. Even to Walmart. One day, on her way into Walmart, the door greeter complimented her yellow slippers and asked her where she got them.She said she got them at an auction, for $6000 because they used to belong to Whoopie Goldberg.Yes,Gertrude was not only a snob, but a pathological liar.Her personality was about as unattractive as her name.
Well, as she continued toward the produce department, she git her usual load of mini cucumbers (she loved to make pickles). She also got some olive loaf,a new set of toenail clippers,Dr.Shoal’s foot powder,onions,a few cans of beans,air freshener,& some toilet paper.
Anyway,Gertrude was so used to people looking at her shoes, that she got very conceited about it. She started thinking she was better than everyone else..especially since everyone thought that Whoopie Goldberg used to own them, & that she paid top dollar for them.
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24 декабря 2017 16:38

Idiom of the Day

💥jump down your throat | jump all over you

✍🏾Meaning: If someone jumps down your throat, or jumps all over you, they strongly criticise you or scold you.

❗️For example:

🔺All I did was come twenty minutes late, and the manager jumped down my throat. I don't understand why he got so mad.

🔺Janie's parents jumped all over her for forgetting to call them and tell them she'd be getting home late.
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24 декабря 2017 09:34

Joke Of The Day

➰God Will Save Me

✍️There was an old man sitting on his porch watching the rain fall. Pretty soon the water was coming over the porch and into the house.

The old man was still sitting there when a rescue boat came and the people on board said, "You can't stay here you have to come with us."

The old man replied, "No, God will save me." So the boat left. A little while later the water was up to the second floor, and another rescue boat came, and again told the old man he had to come with them.

The old man again replied, "God will save me." So the boat left him again.

An hour later the water was up to the roof and a third rescue boat approached the old man, and tried to get him to come with them.

Again the old man refused to leave stating that, "God will save him." So the boat left him again.

Soon after, the man drowns and goes to heaven, and when he sees God he asks him, "Why didn't you save me?"

God replied, "You dummy! I tried. I sent three boats after you!!"😂
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22 декабря 2017 16:01

Word of the Day

💥rectify /ˈrɛktəˌfaɪ/ verb

✍🏾: to correct (something that is wrong)

🔺The hotel management promised to rectify the problem/situation.
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20 декабря 2017 08:57

Word of the Day

💥obsequious

✍🏾 too eager to praise or obey someone:

🔺She is embarrassingly obsequious to anyone in authority.
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