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31 октября 2022 20:06

📔Achilles’ heel

📋Meaning
a vulnerable spot or weakness

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The corrupt minister is regarded as the government’s Achilles heel and is expected to resign.

🗣Though he was a good person, his short temper was his Achilles heel.

🌟Origin
The phrase has its origins in the legend of the Greek hero Achilles. According to the legend, Achilles was dipped into the river Styx by his mother Thetis to him invulnerable. The only portion of his body not immersed into the water was his heels, by which his mother held him. As a result, the heels were the only vulnerable part of his body. He was later killed by an arrow that struck his heel.
Though the legend is ancient, the phrase was not used in English until the 19th century. An early citation appears in an essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in “The Friend; a literary, moral and political weekly paper” in 1810.
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30 октября 2022 20:24

📔 Between a rock and a hard place



📋Meaning
  In difficulty, faced with a choice between two unsatisfactory options.


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🗣 “I can understand why she couldn’t make up her mind about what to do. She’s really between a rock and a hard place.”
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29 октября 2022 20:16

📔 kick to the curb



📋Meaning

to discard, dismiss or reject something or someone (especially in a humiliating manner, as if putting garbage out by the curb)


✨Note
a curb is the raised stone or concrete edge by the side of the road. When you cross the street, you step up onto the curb to get from the road and onto the sidewalk. 

Residents of homes usually bring their trash to the curb in front of their house so that garbage collectors can easily and quickly put the garbage into the truck.


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🗣 Vote November 3rd to kick Donald Trump to the curb.

🗣Help us with a $20 donation so we can kick cancer to the curb.
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28 октября 2022 14:16

📔 Cash Cow



📋Meaning
  a business, investment, or product that provides a steady income or profit.


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🗣 a singer deemed a cash cow for the record label.

🗣The football team was a cash cow for the university.
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🔰15 Funny English Idioms You May Not Know(Part 1)

✍️An idiom is an everyday figure of speech or metaphorical expression whose meaning cannot be taken literary. Idioms often go against the logical “rules of language and grammar” despite being commonly used by the language’s native speakers. If you look closely at the literal meaning of most idioms, you will realize they are often downright hilarious. Here is a list of some of the funniest English idioms you may not know, most of which are drawn from British English. Learn to speak like a regular Brit, mate!

1. Do a Devon Loch
✍🏾Devon Loch was a racehorse that collapsed just short of the winning line of the 1956 Grand National race in the UK. If someone does a Devon Loch, they suddenly fail when everybody expects them to succeed or simply crumble at the very last minute when they were almost winning.
🔺Example: It was shocking how Manchester United did a Devon Loch in the last minutes of the match against Arsenal.

2. Bob’s your uncle
✍🏾This idiom is a catch phrase used when ‘everything is alright’ and means that something will be done, sorted or successful. It’s the British equivalent of “…and that’s that,” or “there you go!” How it is used is often quite funny.
🔺Example: You want to go to the market? Go straight on until you reach the main road, take the first right, and Bob’s your uncle–you’re there!

3. Do a runner
✍🏾When someone does a runner, he leaves a place in a hurry in order to avoid paying for something (like in a restaurant) or flees a difficult situation to escape punishment. Like many British idioms, this particular idiom originates from one of Shakespeare’s popular plays, Anthony and Cleopatra, a gripping story of romance and tragedy that was first performed in 1606.
🔺Example: At this point, the con artist did a runner with all her money.

4. Enough to cobble dogs with
✍🏾This incredulous phrase is used to refer to a surplus of anything. The humor in the image contained in the phrase becomes apparent when you consider that a cobbler repairs shoes. If a cobbler has enough leather to cobble an animal that has four feet, then that cobbler definitely has a surplus.
🔺Example: We’ve got enough beer in this party to cobble dogs with.

5. Fall off the back of a lorry
✍🏾This is the British humorous way of saying you acquired something that was probably stolen, or you are trying to sell something that’s stolen or illegitimate. The American equivalent of the phrase is: “off the back of a truck.”
🔺Example: I don’t know where you get this stuff. I suspect off the back of a lorry.

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📔 have known better days


📋Meaning
To be or look particularly shabby, ill-kept, or in poor condition.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Well, this car has known better days, but it's been reliable for me since the day I bought it 20 years ago.

🗣The poor guy who runs the building is a sweet fellow, but he has certainly known better days by the looks of him.
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📔 be in pursuit


📋Meaning
Following or chasing someone or something.

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🗣The burglar got away, but I called the police, and now they're in pursuit.
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28 октября 2022 20:58

📔 take a piece out of (one)



📋Meaning
To harshly reprimand one.


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🗣My parents are going to take a piece out of me when they find out I crashed the car.
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🔰15 Funny English Idioms You May Not Know(Part 2)

6. Hairy at the heel
✍🏾This disparaging phrase was originally used by the British upper-crust to refer to someone who is ill-bred, dangerous or untrustworthy. The image of a hairy heel is indeed striking and funny.
🔺Example: I can’t say I like Bob. I’ve once or twice had a row with him. He’s a bit hairy at the heels.

7. Cat’s arse
✍🏾The humble cat’s arse–originally known as “felinus bottomus” to the ancient Greeks–is sometimes used to describe the facial expression adopted by a scorned woman. This rather vulgar phrase is apparently used because the (*) shape created by the woman’s lips resemble a cat’s backside.
🔺Example: Bob won’t come to the pub with us–he’s afraid his wife will give him the ‘Cats Arse’ if he does.

8. For donkey’s years
✍🏾This British expression jokingly alludes to the considerable length of years the animal works with nothing to show for it. If you have done something for donkey’s years, then you have done it for an awfully long time without any change or much to show for it.
🔺Example: I’ve been a plumber for donkey’s years. It’s time for a change.

9. All talk and no trousers
✍🏾Someone who is all talk and no trouser talks and thumps his chest a lot about doing big, important things, but doesn’t actually take any action. The thought of someone running his mouth with no trousers is funny.
🔺Example: Be careful. Politicians are known to be all mouth and no trousers.

10. If you’ll pardon my French
✍🏾“Pardon my French,” or “excuse my French” is an informal apology for the use of profane, swear or taboo words. The expression dates back to the 19th century when it was fashionable for Englishmen to use French words–a foreign language then–in conversation, knowing the listener may not understand.
🔺Example: What she needs is a kick in the ass, if you‘ll excuse my French.

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