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📔 be tipping (it) down


📋Meaning
To be raining very heavily. Primarily heard in UK.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣We have a football match scheduled for tomorrow, but if it keeps tipping down like it is today, I'm sure that it will be cancelled.

🗣Looks like it's tipping it down outside again. I guess I won't be cycling to work this morning.
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📔 get taken to task (by someone)



📋Meaning
To be scolded, rebuked, reprimanded, or criticized (by someone).


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I got taken to task by the headmaster for disrupting class again

🗣It's not entirely fair that the bankers are the only ones getting taken to task for the economic collapse, when a great many politicians are to blame as well.
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📔a woman of her word

📋A woman who can be expected to keep or follow through with her promises or intentions; a truthful, trustworthy, or reliable person. (Masculine: "man of his word.")

🗣Bob, I'm a woman of my word. If I tell you I'll be at your house tomorrow morning at 10, then that's when I'll be there.
🗣I've found Mary to be a woman of her word so far, so I'm confident she'll get us the best deal possible.
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📔caught on the hop

📋To encounter or try to communicate or work with someone at an inopportune time, such as when they are busy or preoccupied; to catch one off guard.


🗣I'll definitely help you with that report later—you just happened to catch me on the hop right now.
🗣If Dean was grumpy, you probably just caught him on the hop.

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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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📔 Fair and square


📋Meaning
Being direct or fair.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣To tell you fair and square, I did everything that I was meant to do, but I still feel unfulfilled.   
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📔 To be in the doldrums


📋Meaning
To be in a low spirit

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When I got to know about the increasing cases of COVID 19 in my area, I was in the doldrums.
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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.

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🗣 "they've steadfastly ignored the elephant in the room: the ever-growing debt burden on graduates"
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📔 all sharped up


📋Meaning
Very nicely dressed.


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🗣The guys in the wedding party are all sharped up for the ceremony—they look so handsome!

🗣I have to be all sharped up at this event tonight—a lot of important people will be there.
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📔 The grass is greener on the other side



📋Meaning   
other people always seem to be in a better situation than you, although they may not be



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Our bookkeeper always imagined that the grass is greener on the other side. She quit her job to pursue a legal education.

🗣 Bob always thinks the grass is greener elsewhere, which accounts for his constant job changes.
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📔 scare (one) silly



📋Meaning
To shock or frighten one very suddenly or severely. Hyperbolically alludes to frightening one so severely as to cause them to lose their mind.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Don't sneak up on me like that, you scared me silly!

🗣That car accident seems to have scared Janet silly. She's still shaken by it.
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📔one after another


📋Meaning
Consecutively and in quick succession, with one person or thing rapidly following another in order (and usually indicating a large amount altogether). (Often formulated as "one (noun) after another.")

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The children walked silently, one after another, into the schoolhouse to begin their lesson.

🗣When I was cooped up in the house after my surgery, I started reading one book after another.
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📔 a lot on (one's) plate


📋Meaning
A lot to do.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I just have a lot on my plate right now while I'm finishing up my degree and doing this huge project for work.

🗣Please, I have three small children, and I work full-time—there's always a lot on my plate!
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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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📔 Storm in a teacup (UK idiom)



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


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🗣 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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📔 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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📔 roll (one's) eyes



📋Meaning
To turn one's eyes upward or around in a circle, usually as an expression of exasperation, annoyance, impatience, or disdain.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Don't you roll your eyes at me, young lady! You will finish your homework this instant, or you can kiss your weekend goodbye!

🗣I just rolled my eyes as my dad told another one of his corny jokes.
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📔 blow (one's) stack


📋Meaning
To become very angry, often quickly.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Oh man, Dad is going to blow his stack when he sees that I wrecked his car!
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📔 shotgun house



📋Meaning
slang A one-story house in which each room is in a straight alignment with the others, connected by a continuous hallway running from the front to the back of the residence. Chiefly used in the Southern United States.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When our whole family goes to stay in my grandmother's shotgun house in New Orleans, it always feels like we're all right on top of one another.
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📔 seep out (of something)


📋Meaning
Of a liquid, gel, paste, etc., to leak or flow out of some crack, breach, or flaw in something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I realized there was a fire downstairs when I noticed smoke seeping into our bedroom.

🗣I made sure to make the container airtight so no moisture seeps in.
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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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📔 work the room


📋Meaning
To interact with many people at an event or function. Often, but not always, applied to business situations.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣At networking events, Ben totally works the room, with the goal of meeting as many people as he possibly can.

🗣At parties, my dad always works the room and chats with everyone, but I'm too shy for that.
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📔 Mad as a hatter (UK idiom)



📋Meaning
  Completely mad. 


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I know some of my students think I'm as mad as a hatter because of my weird methods.

🗣 I'll be mad as a hatter if I have to deal with these screaming toddlers for much longer.
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📔 cut corners



📋Meaning
  do something perfunctorily so as to save time or money.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "there is always a temptation to cut corners when time is short"
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📔 as high as a kite


📋Meaning
  intoxicated with drugs or alcohol.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I tried to talk to her after the party, but she was as high as a kite.
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📔 picturesque



📋Meaning
  visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty style.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 the picturesque covered bridges of New England

🗣  the picturesque narrow street s of the old city.
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