📗(have) egg on your face
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☑️Meaning: You will have egg on your face if you've said or done something wrong, and it's made you feel embarrassed or stupid.
✨For example:
🔹Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.
🔹The police force had egg on its face because they arrested and beat up an innocent guy who had the same name as a suspect they were looking for.
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📗worth its weight in gold
☑️Meaning: If something is worth its weight in gold, it's extremely valuable or extremely useful.
✨For example:
🔹Your grandmother's stories are worth their weight in gold, so you should try to record them or write them down.
🔹A personal recommendation from someone like Professor Clark is worth its weight in gold. You'll be able to get a job anywhere you like with that.
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📗a wake-up call
☑️Meaning: An event acts as a wake-up call if it makes people more aware of a danger.
✨For example:
🔹I slipped over on the wet floor in my bathroom. I didn't hurt myself badly, but it was a wake-up call and I went out and bought some non-slip mats to stick on the floor.
🔹Robert had a pain in the chest, and it was a wake-up call for him. Now he's eating much healthier food and he's exercising more.
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📗a law unto themselves
☑️Meaning: If somebody is a law unto themselves, they do things their own way and follow their own ideas about how to live instead of following what others do.
📍For example:
🔹Our boy Billy is a law unto himself. Of course he sometimes makes mistakes and gets into trouble, but we're proud of him because he doesn't just follow the herd.
🔹Our boss does things a bit differently to most other managers, so it's no surprise that some people say he's a law unto himself.
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🔰over the top
☑️Meaning: You can say something is over the top if you think it's too extreme or it's more than a situation needs or deserves.
✔️For example:
▪️I know you love your daughter, Bill, but don't you think giving her a Ferrari for her birthday was a bit over the top?
▪️After he'd calmed down, Brad admitted that punching the photographer and smashing his camera was a little over the top.
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🔰pull out all the stops
☑️Meaning: If you pull out all the stops, you do everything you can to make sure something is successful.
〽️For example:
🔹They pulled out all the stops for the launch of their new range of perfumes, and even paid movie stars to come along.
🔹The Chinese government pulled out all the stops in their efforts to make the Beijing Olympics the best Olympic Games ever.
✔️Origin: Metaphorical, and related to the fact that the volume and timbre of a traditional pipe organ can be controlled in part by pulling out small knobs called "stops". If an organist "pulled out all the stops" on the organ, it would create a very big sound when played.
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🔰Jump on the bandwagon
☑️This idiom refers to when people join others in something trendy, fashionable, or likely to be successful in an opportunistic way, or essentially, joining the crowd when it’s most advantageous to do so. This idiom can also be referred to as “climb on the bandwagon”.
✨In a sentence
🔹“Angela wasn’t sure she liked off-the-shoulder shirts, but when they were featured in Vogue, she jumped on the bandwagon and bought one.”
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🔰an end in itself
☑️Meaning: If something is an end in itself, it's done for its own pleasure or benefit rather than for some other purpose like making money.
✨For example:
🔹Billy says playing music in a band is an end in itself for him, but I think he does it to meet girls.
🔹People used to think education was an end in itself, but these days kids study in order to make lots of money when they graduate.
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🔰warts and all
☑️Meaning: If you show something warts and all, you show it exactly as it is without trying to hide any of its faults or weaknesses.
✨For example:
🔹Are you sure you want to read the first draft? You'll see it warts and all, with all the mistakes and all the bad writing still there.
🔹People don't want to see an idealised version of his life. They want to know the real story, warts and all.
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📗lead the way
☑️Meaning: If you lead the way, you show others where to go or what to do.
💧For example:
🔹When it came to exploring new directions in popular music, the Beatles definitely led the way.
🔹We should ask Carlos to lead the way. He knows this area better than any of us.
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🔰a one-track mind
☑️Meaning: If someone has a one-track mind, they spend most of their time thinking about one subject.
✔️For example:
🔸Brian's had a one-track mind since he started his own company. All he thinks about now is business and making money.
🔸Mark's upset because Jenny said he's got a one-track mind and he's always thinking about sex.
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🔰bear the brunt
☑️Meaning: If you bear the brunt of something, you suffer the worst of its impact or its effects.
〽️For example:
🔹The driver bore the brunt of the crash because he was right at the front of the bus.
🔹The team's coach bore the brunt of the criticism because he'd selected the players who'd performed so badly.
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Idiom of the Day
🔰blow your own horn | blow your own trumpet
☑️Meaning: If you blow your own horn, or blow your own trumpet, you proudly boast about your own talents and successes.
〽️For example:
🔘I hate the way Barry always blows his own horn, and I get sick of hearing about all the amazing things he's done.
🔘Lorraine says that if you want to be successful in the fashion business, you really have to blow your own trumpet.
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