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📔 Out of the woods



📋Meaning
  The situation is still difficult but it’s improved or gotten easier. The hardest part of something is over.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “The surgery went very well and he just needs to recover now, so he’s officially out of the woods.”
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📔 a heart of gold



📋Meaning
  a kind and generous disposition


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 A woman with a heart of gold gives us lodging for the night.  
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📔 riffraff


📋Meaning
Undesirable, disreputable, or vulgar people, often used in a condescending manner.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I wouldn't be seen in a place like that, there's a lot of riffraff that hang out around there.
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📔 15 minutes of fame


📋Meaning
A brief period of celebrity or notoriety. The term was coined by artist Andy Warhol.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Jane had her 15 minutes of fame when she appeared on the nightly news broadcast.

🗣That viral video gave Sam his 15 minutes of fame.

🗣I've seen what celebrity does to people, so I'm really not interested in getting 15 minutes of fame.
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📔 backslider


📋Meaning
One who reverts or relapses into bad habits, unethical or immoral behavior, or criminal activity.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣We've tried to help her quit smoking, but she's a bit of a backslider.

🗣Jimmy's too much of a backslider to stay true to the practices of the church.
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📔 bad omen


📋Meaning
A sign, either real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣It was a bad omen when my girlfriend broke up with me the day before my final exams.

🗣All of the recent natural disasters are a bad omen for the future of the planet.
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📔 banker's hours


📋Meaning
A limited work schedule (as banks were once known for having short work days and being closed on holidays and weekends).

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣You won't be able to reach her on a Saturday—she keeps banker's hours.
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📔 case of the dropsy


📋Meaning
A fictitious "condition" characterized by continually dropping things from one's hands. It is a play on the term "dropsy," which was formerly used to denote the condition now known as edema (or oedema).

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I've broken four or five plates since I started work. I guess I've got a bad case of the dropsy today.
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📔 the big picture



📋Meaning
  the situation as a whole.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "he's so involved in the minutiae that he often overlooks the big picture"
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📔 living on the edge



📋Meaning
 To have an adventurous or perilous lifestyle; to behave in a manner which creates risks for oneself.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Despite the apparent respectability, he was a man who liked to live on the edge.
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📔 a cut above the rest


📋Meaning
Better in quality than most others.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This new restaurant is a cut above the rest.

🗣Trust me, Johannes is a cut above the rest. If you want the best legal advice money can buy, he's your man.

🗣An entrant's essay must be a cut above the rest for it to win our top prize.
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📔 a cut above the rest


📋Meaning
Better in quality than most others.

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🗣Trust me, Johannes is a cut above the rest. If you want the best legal advice money can buy, he's your man.

🗣An entrant's essay must be a cut above the rest for it to win our top prize.
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📔 a cut below


📋Meaning
Of lower quality than or inferior to someone or something else, especially that of the expected norm.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This waiter is really a cut below what I would expect from this restaurant.

🗣Your essay was a cut below, honestly. That's why it didn't win the contest.

🗣I haven't been that impressed with any of the candidates for the sales position—they've just been a cut below.
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📔 freak of nature


📋Meaning
Something or someone that is unusual, rare, or abnormal in some way; beyond or outside the natural world.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The goat they have at the circus sideshow is a real freak of nature, it was born with two heads!

🗣He can lift over 500 pounds in the gym, he's like some freak of nature.
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📔 fresh legs


📋Meaning
In sports, one or more substitute players who have not yet participated in a given game or match, thus having more energy than the players they are replacing.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Their offense is completely wearing out our defense—it's time to get some fresh legs on the field!
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📔 go through the roof



📋Meaning
  to become very angry or upset


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 When they realized he'd lied to them, his parents went through the roof.
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📔 sitting duck



📋Meaning
a person or thing with no protection against an attack or other source of danger.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Nancy knew she'd be a sitting duck when she raised the trap door. 

🗣The senator was a sitting duck because of his unpopular position on school reform. 
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📔 Storm in a teacup (UK idiom)



📋Meaning
   A small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 The whole controversy turned out to be a storm in a teacup.
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📔 Sitting on the fence



📋Meaning
  a person's lack of decisiveness, neutrality or hesitance to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition, or inability to decide due to lack of courage. 



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “The councilman is afraid he'll lose votes if he takes sides on the zoning issue, but he can't sit on the fence forever.”
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📔 raise the roof



📋Meaning
make or cause someone else to make a great deal of noise, especially through cheering. 



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "when I finally scored the fans raised the roof"
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📔 crushing blow


📋Meaning
A major defeat or setback that is devastating to the goals of a person, group, or organization.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The team's loss last Sunday was a crushing blow to their chances for a championship.

🗣Failing that test was a crushing blow to my hopes for an honors degree.
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📔 cushy job


📋Meaning
A job that is easy, stress-free, and/or very well paid.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Since I got this cushy job managing a toy store, I've gotten to sit around playing with toys all day.

🗣Since Sarah got that cushy job with the bank, she has been driving a sports car and is buying a second home!
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📔 the elephant in the room



📋Meaning
  a major problem or controversial issue which is obviously present but is avoided as a subject for discussion.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "they've steadfastly ignored the elephant in the room: the ever-growing debt burden on graduates"
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📔 The sky is the limit



📋Meaning
  If you say the sky is the limit, you mean that there is nothing to prevent someone or something from being very successful.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 They have found that, in terms of both salary and career success, the sky is the limit. 
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📔 Time flies



📋Meaning
  used to observe that time seems to pass very quickly.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "people say time flies when you're having fun"
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📔 Button your lips



📋Meaning
  to not talk about something



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Button your lip. He's coming toward us. Don't tell him what I said, please.
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📔 a free bit of advice


📋Meaning
A suggestion, opinion, or piece of advice that was unrequested or unsolicited by the recipient.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Allow me to give you a free bit of advice, my friend: don't say something you'll end up regretting later.

🗣I know you're worried about your kids, but here's a free bit of advice—you can't protect them from every little thing.

🗣Hey, here's a free bit of advice for you during your internship—always be kind and polite. People remember if you treat them well.
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