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31 марта 2024 21:08
📚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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29 марта 2024 12:48
📒take after
📖Meaning
If you take after an older member of your family, you look like them or you have a similar personality to them.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Alan takes after his mum in personality, but he looks more like his dad.
💬 Do you think Sandy takes after her father or her mother?
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28 марта 2024 13:07
💠 blast (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a great experience, a very enjoyable time
❕For example
🔺You should have come to Neil's birthday party. It was a blast!
🔺The Sydney Gay Mardi Gras was such a blast that we're going again next year, for sure.
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27 марта 2024 14:38
📒chat up
📖Meaning
to talk to someone in the hope of beginning a romantic relationship with them
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Juan is very good at chatting up girls. He knows how to make them laugh.
💬 Mark finds it difficult to chat guys up because he often feels shy, and he doesn't know what to say.
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26 марта 2024 12:07
💠 goof off | goof around 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
waste time, play around
❕For example
🔺Whenever the teacher leaves the classroom she tells her students to keep working, but as soon as she leaves they start goofing off.
🔺It's the kids who goof around in college instead of taking their studies seriously who'll be in trouble when they try to join the workforce.
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25 марта 2024 09:54
📒factor in
📖Meaning
to include a certain item when calculating or planning something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Don't forget to factor in transport costs when you make the quotation.
💬 You need to factor the political situation in when deciding on a country to invest in.
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24 марта 2024 10:31
💠 limo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
limousine
❕For example
🔺Are we going to rent a limo and a driver for the wedding?
🔺The limo's got a TV, a computer, and a bar in the back, and about six people can sit in there.
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21 марта 2024 03:12
📚jockey for position
✍🏾Meaning
If you jockey for position, you try to get yourself in a good position in relation to others who're competing for the same opportunity or the same goal.
❗️For example
🔸Several of us are jockeying for position as we negotiate with the manager for the job of running the new branch office.
🔸Four candidates will jockey for position in the run-up to the Democratic convention next month.
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19 марта 2024 19:50
📒 Man proposes, God disposes
📖Meaning
Human beings can make any plans they want, but it's God that decides their success or failure.
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18 марта 2024 14:47
📚the moment of truth
✍🏾Meaning
The moment of truth is a time when the truth about something is revealed, or when an important decision is made.
❗️For example
🔸We're getting our exam results today so the moment of truth is nearly here.
🔸We've been at the tennis tournament all weekend, and now we're watching the last game in the last match, so the moment of truth is here at last.
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17 марта 2024 15:36
📒 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
📖Meaning
An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.
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16 марта 2024 09:33
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31 марта 2024 06:59
💠 whack 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to murder, esp. within the context of organised crime
❕For example
🔺There's a contract out to whack Tony B. because he'd whacked Jimmy S., and he'd whacked Jimmy because Jimmy had whacked Paulie T., and so on.
🔺If those Mafia informers don't get protection, they'll be whacked for sure.
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29 марта 2024 19:53
📒 As soon as man is born he begins to die
📖Meaning
The process of dying starts at birth. This saying reminds us of our own mortality, whatever our age.
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28 марта 2024 22:27
📚the ins and outs
✍🏾Meaning
If you know the ins and outs of something, you know all the details about it and understand how it works.
❗️For example
🔸Louis knows how to drive a car, but he knows nothing about the ins and outs of how they work.
🔸It seems that Yoko and Sato are having problems, though I don't really understand the ins and outs of their relationship.
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27 марта 2024 21:29
📒 Fair exchange is no robbery
📖Meaning
Swapping one thing fairly in return for another is not the same as stealing.
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26 марта 2024 20:44
📚yellow journalism
✍🏾Meaning
Journalism in which sensational stories are used to boost sales, or biased reporting is used to change the reader's views on an issue. Both of these are unethical.
❗️For example
🔸Have you noticed how, during a war, normally trustworthy professionals start writing the worst sort of yellow journalism to justify their government's actions?
🔸Joe: "Is there any difference between yellow journalism and propaganda?" Kate: "I think yellow journalism can be even more dangerous than propaganda if it's being presented as objective reporting by well-known journalists."
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25 марта 2024 21:35
📒 Great oaks from little acorns grow
📖Meaning
The normal order of words would be "Great oaks grow from little acorns." We understand: sometimes small and modest things can become very large and impressive things with time.
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24 марта 2024 17:44
📚think the world of
✍🏾Meaning
If you think the world of someone, you admire and respect them very much.
❗️For example
🔸If there's one person most of us think the world of, I guess it'd be Nelson Mandela.
🔸You're a wonderful teacher Miriam, and your students think the world of you, so please don't quit your job.
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23 марта 2024 09:31
📒 Barking dogs seldom bite
📖Meaning
Don't be afraid of dogs that bark or people that threaten you (say they will do something bad to you) - in both cases they rarely take action.
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21 марта 2024 22:10
📒take off (1)
📖Meaning
to remove a piece of clothing, or the top of a container
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If you go to Asia, you should take off your shoes before going into someone's home.
💬 Can you take the top off a beer bottle with your teeth?
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20 марта 2024 09:42
💠 honky 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a derogatory term in black American slang for a white person
❕For example
🔺When we were visiting the Apollo Theater in Harlem in New York, a woman passing us on the street said, "What are you honkies doin' round here?"
🔺I have a lot of black American friends, and they all say they hate racist language, including anti-white words like "honky".
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19 марта 2024 10:24
📒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.
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17 марта 2024 22:47
💠 emo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a style of music and fashion that developed among American teens in the early 21st century
❕For example
🔺Emo kids love to wear tight black jeans, tight sweatshirts or T-shirts, and scarves, and they dye their hair black and grow long bangs to cover most of the face.
🔺My brother has decided he's an emo kid, so he's taken to moping around in silence while looking like a sulky teenage vampire.
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16 марта 2024 18:25
📒end with
📖Meaning
to have something act as the final part of something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The celebration ended with a spectacular fireworks display.
💬 After the main part of the seminar is over, it ends with each speaker giving a summary of their ideas.
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16 марта 2024 09:32
📚mend your ways
✍🏾Meaning
If you mend your ways, you improve your behaviour and stop doing things that cause trouble.
❗️For example
🔸Terry had better mend his ways or Rosie will leave him forever.
🔸It took him a long time to mend his ways, but these days Jack is a good father and husband.
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14 марта 2024 21:40
💠 rubber 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a condom
❕For example
🔺It's really important to use a rubber whenever you have sex. It'll stop you from getting nasty diseases like AIDS and gonorrhea.
🔺Cindy says vending machines that sell rubbers should be in schools, universities, department stores and public toilets.
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