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29 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 pull someone's leg


📋Meaning
deceive someone playfully; tease someone.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"getting married—are you pulling my leg?"
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28 апреля 2023 17:31

📔be not worth a brass farthing

📋Meaning
To be completely worthless or useless; to have little or no value. Refers to farthings (obsolete British units of currency, worth one-quarter of a penny), formerly made from a copper alloy (brass). Primarily heard in UK.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I was so excited when my grandfather said he'd give me his car, but this old clunker isn't worth a brass farthing.

🗣Over the years working here, I've come to realize that the boss's word isn't worth a brass farthing.
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27 апреля 2023 17:31

📔 be the pits


📋Meaning
To be particularly bad, unfortunate, or awful, especially of a situation or outcome.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Well, this is the pits. I absolutely cannot believe such a huge thunderstorm came through just as we were getting our picnic set up.

🗣I was so excited about this job when I first started. I wish I would have known it'd be the pits.
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27 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 turn a blind eye


📋Meaning
pretend not to notice.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"please, don't turn a blind eye to what is happening"
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26 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 beat the rush


📋Meaning
to get there first


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I always do my shopping early to beat the rush.
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25 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 raise Cain


📋Meaning
Behave in a rowdy or disruptive way


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣He'll raise Cain when he finds out I lost his watch.
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24 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 break a leg!


📋Meaning
good luck!


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"Remember, the show must go on! Good luck and break a leg!"
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22 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 wet behind the ears


📋Meaning
lacking experience; immature.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"he's a nice young fellow but a bit wet behind the ears"
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21 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 through thick and thin


📋Meaning
  under all circumstances, no matter how difficult.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "they stuck together through thick and thin"
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21 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 bump heads with


📋Meaning
To clash with another person on a particular issue.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Monica and I are always bumping heads with each other about how to go about these reports because she wants to start writing, while I think we should research first.

🗣I just know I'm going to have to bump heads with Ted again about this budget—we always want to cut different things.
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20 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 steely-eyed



📋Meaning
With or having a fierce intensity in one's expression.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The teacher fixed a steely-eyed gaze upon me when I started joking around during class.

🗣I could feel my ex-girlfriend staring at me, steely-eyed, from across the bar.
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19 апреля 2023 06:30

📔 scream (one's) head off



📋Meaning
To scream or yell very loudly and lengthily.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Suzy screamed her head off when I told her she couldn't have an ice cream cone.

🗣The stadium was packed with fans screaming their heads off for the popular band.

🗣Don't bother listening to the crazies who stand on street corners and scream their heads off at passersby.
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18 апреля 2023 06:00

📔 publicity hound


📋Meaning
Someone who seeks to have the attention of the public constantly focused on him- or herself, typically by means of attracting media coverage.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The former actor's run at politics is seen by many as just another stunt by a publicity hound desperate to keep the spotlight on himself.
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17 апреля 2023 05:30

📔be on (one's) best behavior

📋Meaning
To be very polite or exercise exceptionally good manners. Primarily heard in US.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Now, you kids must be on your best behavior for your Auntie this weekend!Good morning, class.

🗣I hope everyone was on their best behavior for the substitute teacher yesterday.
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16 апреля 2023 05:43

📔 pearly whites

📋Meaning
A person's set of teeth.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Be sure to brush your pearly whites twice a day, or you might end up getting a cavity!
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29 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 take a piece out of (one)



📋Meaning
To harshly reprimand one.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My parents are going to take a piece out of me when they find out I crashed the car.
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28 апреля 2023 05:31

📔 leave a bad taste in mouth


📋Meaning
To give one a negative impression (based on something that has already happened).

🤔For example ⬇️


🗣I don't know, man, the fact that he lied to you just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

🗣The way they conducted the interview left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't think I'd accept the job even if they offered it.
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27 апреля 2023 07:03

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26 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 one-up (someone)

📋Meaning
To make a point of outdoing, outperforming, outclassing, etc., someone.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I hate telling stories around Jack because he always tries to one-up you with some fabulous anecdote of his own.
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25 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 brace of shakes


📋Meaning
Instantly, quickly, or in an extremely short amount of time, as of a task or event. "Brace," taken from the old French for the arms' breadth from hand to hand, means twice; the phrase as a whole refers either to an old nautical term, meaning the time it takes the sail to shake twice as it takes up the wind, or else the short time it takes to shake a dice-box twice. Often used in the phrase "in a brace of shakes."

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'll have that ready for you in a brace of shakes.

🗣We'll be there in a brace of shakes.
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24 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 the toast of (the town)


📋Meaning
Someone who is especially well-liked, regarded, or admired in a certain place.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The young entrepreneur's new tech innovation has made him the toast of the town in Silicon Valley.

🗣I hope you enjoy being the toast of London now, because such fame is always fleeting.
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23 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 talk to the hand



📋Meaning
A rude interjection meant to interrupt and dismiss what another person is saying. (Sometimes written or spoken in longer forms, such as, "talk to the hand, because the face isn't listening," or the like.)


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Dad: "Sarah, would you mind cleaning up the—" Sarah: "Talk to the hand, Dad! I've got too much going on to be dealing with chores around the house!"

🗣All of us were aghast when Jonathan turned to the police officer and said, "Talk to the hand, 'cause the face ain't interested!"
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22 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 until all hours (of the day and night)


📋Meaning
Until a very late hour of the night or early hour of the morning.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Johnny keeps taking the car and staying out until all hours, and I just don't know what to do anymore!

🗣My boyfriend lives in another state, so to make up for the long distance, we stay up talking until all hours of the day and night.
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21 апреля 2023 15:02

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20 апреля 2023 17:31

📔 jam session



📋Meaning
  an often impromptu performance by a group especially of jazz musicians that is characterized by improvisation.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 The musical siblings then invite Lisa over to Billie’s studio for a special jam session.

🗣 Playing some favorites by The Allman Brothers Band during a jam session led to the birth of tribute group Midnight Rider.
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19 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 taken aback




📋Meaning
  to be surprised, shocked or confused about something



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I was taken aback when your mother asked if I’m having trouble getting pregnant.

🗣 My friend was taken aback when I asked him if he smokes weed.
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18 апреля 2023 17:30

📔in the blink of an eye

📋Meaning
So quickly as to seem almost imperceptible (i.e., in the space of time it takes a person to blink).

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The high-speed camera reveals how the frog uses its specialized tongue to capture the insect in the blink of an eye.

🗣Working on Wall Street, you get used to massive financial changes happening in the blink of an eye.
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17 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 take a powder


📋Meaning
depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When he saw the police coming, the thief decided to take a powder.”
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16 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 Head in the sand




📋Meaning
to ignore or refuse to think about a problem or something unpleasant.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣   I knew I needed to finish my paper before exams started but I just kept my head in the sand and now I won't have time to finish it before its due.

🗣You've had your head in the sand about this marriage for two years and now I'm too tired to work on it. I want a divorce! 

🗣Here are three overdue bills! I can't believe you're burying your head in the sand again.
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15 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 behind the eight ball


📋Meaning
In a challenging situation; at a disadvantage. An "eight ball" is one of the numbered balls used in the game of pool, and the last one supposed to be hit into a pocket. If the eight ball is accidentally hit into a pocket prematurely, the player will lose, and it therefore needs to be avoided.

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🗣If we don't leave early tomorrow, we'll be behind the eight ball, and I doubt we'll reach the cabin by dusk.

🗣Because I got the flu, I'm behind the eight ball with my Christmas shopping.
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