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26 апреля 2017 20:46

🔰put the brakes on

✔️Meaning: If you put the brakes on something, you stop it or slow it down.

💧For example:

🔸Many companies are putting the brakes on new investment until the economy improves.

🔸The government has to put the brakes on the water treatment project until the corruption enquiry is over.

🔘Origin: This metaphorical idiom is based on the fact that if you're driving a car and you "put the brakes on", the car slows down and stops.

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10 Travel_inspired Idioms
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24 апреля 2017 08:02

Idioms telling people to hurry up

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20 апреля 2017 12:22

✅Age Idioms

🔰long in the tooth
✅A person who is long in the tooth is a bit too old to do something.
♦️She's a bit long in the tooth for a cabaret dancer, isn't she?


🔰mutton dressed as lamb
☑️This expression refers to a middle-aged woman who tries to look younger by dressing in clothes designed for younger people.
♦️The style doesn't suit her - it has a mutton-dressed-as-lamb effect on her!


🔰no spring chicken
☑️To say that someone is no spring chicken means that they are quite old or well past their youth.
♦️How old is the owner? I don't know but she's no spring chicken!

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16 апреля 2017 13:23

❇️joined at the hip

☑️Meaning: If two people or things are joined at the hip, they're so closely linked as to be almost inseparable.

📌For example:

♦️Kim and Meg have been joined at the hip since meeting in high school. They're more like soulmates than friends.

♦️The two clubs were so closely tied after sharing the same ground and the same staff for so long that they were practically joined at the hip.

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16 апреля 2017 13:15

❇️jog your memory

☑️Meaning: If something jogs your memory, it helps you to remember something.

📌For example:

🔸The song really jogged my memory and I could clearly picture the scene thirty years ago when my friends and I first heard it.

🔸The police had a sketch of the suspect drawn and showed it to people in the area in the hope of jogging their memories.

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14 апреля 2017 12:29

📕dig one's own grave

☑️Meaning: If you dig your own grave, you do something unwise that will result in your own failure or downfall in the future.

▶️For example:

🔹Anyone who eats too much and doesn't exercise is digging their own grave.

🔹Jim lost his job, but he dug his own grave by being late all the time.

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14 апреля 2017 12:26

💥damned if you do and damned if you don't

☑️Meaning: If you say "damned if you do and damned if you don't" you're saying that no matter what someone does, they'll be criticised for it.

🔰For example:

🔸The school is in one of those "damned if you do and damned if you don't" positions. If they ban junk food in the canteen, the kids will say their rights are being infringed upon, and if they don't ban it, others will say they're damaging the kids' health.

🔹If I keep playing music in the same style, some people say I'm repeating myself, but if I change to a new style, other people say I'm just following fashion. I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't!

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12 апреля 2017 19:24

Thanksgiving Idioms

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10 апреля 2017 07:20

✅IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH


💥bitch up
☑️: to ruin or spoil; to frustrate.

broad-speaking
☑️: plain-speaking, outspoken.

💥get burned up
☑️: to become exhausted through physical exertion.

💥butter-for-fat
☑️: like for like; similar to tit-for tat.

💥That's chalk
☑️: that's inevitable; a foregone conclusion; slang for that's great.

💥cheek somebody up
☑️: to be impertinent to somebody.

💥clap somebody up
☑️: to applaud somebody; similar to applaud to the echo.

💥cold in the arm, leg
☑️: an inflammation of the arm or leg.

💥curry-favor someone
☑️: give somebody an unfair advantage because of personal connections; curry somebody's favor.

💥cut-up with someone
☑️: to flirt.

💥cut your grass
☑️: to usurp someone else's prerogative or exclusive right or privilege.

💥decide your mind
☑️: to make a decision.

💥what the diggins
☑️: an exclamation of surprise.

💥dive up
☑️: to dive into the water and bring something up.

💥doggy after someone
☑️: to follow someone about constantly.

💥don 't-care-'f-I
☑️: not caring, especially about social norms.

💥draw hand
☑️: to make a leading or beckoning gesture.

💥eat off someone
☑️: to eat at someone else's expense.

💥fowled of doing something
☑️: engaged in doing something.

💥pick up gap seed
☑️: to gather information for gossip.

💥grind somebody up in your heart
☑️: to bear a grudge against somebody.

💥in quest
☑️: to admit defeat in playing cards or marbles.

💥keep somebody hot
☑️: to be at a person's heels, getting in his/her way.

💥land somebody off
☑️." to drop someone off from a car or boat.

💥lay on your chest/stomach
☑️: to cause indigestion or nightmares (of food eaten late at night).

💥make him know
☑️: to scold or punish.

💥make your break
☑️: to seize an opportunity to do what one has been wanting to do.

💥mix fool with sense
☑️: to attempt to deceive someone by interspersing lies with the truth.

💥one mind tell me
☑️: To have a vague contradictory feeling (that something would happen, etc.).

💥own something to somebody
☑️: to confess something to somebody.

💥pick somebody's mouth
☑️: to get information by engaging in seemingly casual conversation.

💥pick up for somebody
☑️: to take somebody's side of the argument.

💥pitch a stink
☑️: to object vehemently, cause a commotion.

💥poke death with a stick
☑️: to court danger, to tempt fate.

💥rap someone up
☑️: to applaud someone, especially for a generous donation to a church.

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✅Idioms with things in a house

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02 апреля 2017 18:55

❇️A NEE­DLE IN A HAYSTACK

💢Meaning:
Something or someone that is difficult and nearly impossible to find.

🔰Example:
♦️Try­ing to find a lost child dur­ing the IT fair would be like search­ing for a nee­dle in a haystack!

Did you know❓
This phrase orig­i­nated even be­fore Shake­speare’s time. Ini­tially, it was called “a nee­dle in a bot­tle of hay”, “bot­tle” be­ing an early ex­pres­sion for “bun­dle”. It has pro­lif­er­ated through­out cen­turies as it paints a near per­fect pic­ture of a near-im­pos­si­ble task.

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🔰plain sailing

☑️Meaning: If something is plain sailing, it's very easy to do and there are no problems to overcome.

💧For example:

♦️Golfer Tiger Woods hit a couple of bad shots early in his round, but it was plain sailing after that and he won the match easily.

♦️I answered the first few questions in the exam without any problems, and I knew it'd be plain sailing from then on.

🍭Origin: From sailing, in which plain sailing means to sail at good speed without facing any obstacles.

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🔰get on in years
☑️ Someone who is getting on in years is growing old.
♦️My grandmother is getting on in years. She's no longer able to look after her home without help.


🔰knee-high to a grasshopper
☑️This term refers to a very young and therefore small child.
♦️Look how tall you are! Last time I saw you, you were knee-high to a grasshopper!

🔰silver surfer
☑️A silver surfer is an elderly person who uses the internet.
♦️After just a few questions my grandmother was ready to join the silver surfers.


🔰put years on
☑️If an event or difficult situation puts years on someone, it makes them look or feel much older.
♦️I hardly recognized Mr. Brown. His illness has put years on him.

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16 апреля 2017 13:30

❇️just shy of

⭕️INFORMAL
💢Meaning: You can say something is just shy of an amount if it's just short of that amount.

📌For example:

▪️Luckily our boxer's weight is just shy of 60 kilos. If he was over 60 kilos, he couldn't fight.

▪️We've counted the bricks and there are just shy of a thousand.

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16 апреля 2017 13:20

❇️join the ranks of

☑️Meaning: If someone joins the ranks of a group or class of people, they become part of that group.

📌For example:

🔹Because of the economic slowdown, more and more people are losing their jobs and joining the ranks of the unemployed.

🔹In a few years our country should be able to join the ranks of the world's most developed nations.

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16 апреля 2017 13:13

❇️just in case

☑️Meaning: You can say "just in case" when describing a possible future problem and a precaution that has been, or should be, taken against it.

📌For example:

▪️I'm taking an umbrella, just in case it rains.

▪️You probably won't need to go to a hospital in Europe, but you should get some health insurance anyway, just in case.

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14 апреля 2017 12:28

❇️dead in the water

✅Meaning: If something is dead in the water, it has no chance of succeeding or of making any progress.

▶️For example:

⚜️I'm sure that George's new company is dead in the water. Nobody's interested in buying his product.

⚜️The government's new health bill is dead in the water. It's got no chance of getting through the Senate.

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14 апреля 2017 12:24

📚a done deal

🇺🇸American English INFORMAL

☑️Meaning: A done deal is an agreement or a decision that is final.

🔰For example:

🔸It's a done deal so we can go ahead and start planning the details.

🔸No-one knew about it, but the contract has been a done deal since the senator spoke to the minister last month.

🔴Variety: This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

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12 апреля 2017 19:14

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❇️A NEST EGG

☑️Meaning:
Savings set aside for future use.

〽️Example:
Roger worked hard when he was young so that he could re­tire with a sub­stan­tial nest egg in his fifties.

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This id­iom de­rived from a method of en­cour­ag­ing a hen to lay eggs by putting eggs in her nest.

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