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01 февраля 2024 19:34

📔on (one's) tod

📋Without or not near to anyone else; on one's own; all alone. A shortening of the Cockney rhyming slang "on one's Tod Sloan," referring to a once-famous American horse jockey who fell into disrepute in the early 20th century and died penniless and alone. Primarily heard in UK.

🗣To be quite honest, after a hectic week of work, I much prefer having a drink on my tod than being around a bunch of people.
🗣Mary's been on her tod ever since Rupert broke up with her last week.
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31 января 2024 21:48

📔 pull a prank (on someone)




📋Meaning
To carry out a trick, deception, or practical joke (against someone).


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣It turns out that the supposed alien visitors that people had been seeing were just a bunch of teenagers pulling a prank on the town.

🗣I've got a great plan to pull a prank on the school for April Fools' Day.

🗣The fake article had been in print in the renowned scientific journal for more than a week before its author revealed that he had pulled a prank when he decided to submit it.
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30 января 2024 19:50

📔be no slouch

📋Meaning
To be very hardworking, enthusiastic, and/or skillful.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Tom might not be the friendliest coworker in the world, but he's no slouch when it comes to running the company's IT systems.
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29 января 2024 21:41

💠 hustle (one's) bustle

✍🏾 To increase one's pace or sense of urgency; to hurry up; to get moving quickly.

We'd better hustle our bustle if we want to get to the movie theater on time!
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28 января 2024 19:19

📔 boots and all


📋Meaning
With maximum effort or enthusiasm; completely and without restraint. Primarily heard in Australia, New Zealand.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣If we set about digging that trench boots and all, then we should be finished before lunchtime.
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27 января 2024 21:54

📔 be tied (up) in knots


📋Meaning
To be confused, anxious, worried, and/or upset (about something).


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I've been tied up in knots trying to come up with a good topic for my term paper, but I just can't think of anything!

🗣James is tied in knots over how to break up with Danielle, but I think he needs to bite the bullet and just do it.
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26 января 2024 02:33

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25 января 2024 08:26

📔 jazz something / someone up




📋Meaning
  to make something or someone more interesting, appealing, exciting or stylish



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🗣 I love how French women dress. They know just how to jazz a simple outfit up with something very unique.

🗣 What time can we get into the gym tomorrow afternoon? We need to jazz it up for the school dance.
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24 января 2024 08:40

📔 wake up and smell the coffee




📋Meaning
  be more realistic about a situation, no matter how unpleasant it is.




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🗣 You failed algebra? Wake up and smell the coffee or you're not going to graduate with your class in June.

🗣 It wasn't until I was fired for being late to my job that I finally woke up and smelled the coffee.
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23 января 2024 07:54

📔 pop the question





📋Meaning
  to propose marriage (ask someone to marry)



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  I need to think of a really romantic way to pop the question to my girlfriend.

🗣  My boyfriend was behaving very strangely so I thought he was about to break up with me but he actually popped the question.
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22 января 2024 08:38

📔 put all your eggs in one basket




📋Meaning
  having all of your resources or efforts in just one possibility is very risky.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Don't you think submitting only one job application is putting all your eggs in one basket?

🗣  I put all my eggs in one basket when I quit my job and moved out west—fortunately, I found an apartment and a job before I spent all of my savings.
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21 января 2024 08:27

📔 Straight from the horse's mouth




📋Meaning
  directly from the person who knows the most about the matter; someone who knows the facts.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "I heard Andy got angry and quit this morning!" "Well, I can confirm it's true since I had lunch with Andy and heard it straight from the horse's mouth."

🗣 Look, if you don't believe me, go over to Sarah right now and get it straight from the horse's mouth.
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20 января 2024 10:42

📔 Like a thief in the night




📋Meaning
  something moving quickly, secretly and unexpectedly without being seen.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My ex-boyfriend captured my heart like a thief in the night. Although I discovered he was married shortly after meeting him, I was already crazy in love.

🗣 COVID-19 really hit the world like a thief in the night. It's heartbreaking that years later it's still disrupted normal ways of life.
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18 января 2024 20:17

📔 in the middle of nowhere


📋Meaning
In a very distant, remote, and isolated location.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'll never understand why they built this campus out here in the middle of nowhere.
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17 января 2024 20:46

📔 Peter Pan syndrome



📋Meaning
A psychological state or condition in which a grown person cannot or refuses to act like an adult; a stubborn and persistent immaturity found in an adult person.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I seem cursed to only find men who have some damned Peter Pan syndrome. I'm tired of going out with guys who act like children!
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01 февраля 2024 09:14

📔 Keep your head above water




📋Meaning
  1) to have just enough to live or survive (especially having enough money); 2) to manage to do all of your work.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 She keeping her head above water right now but if she doesn't find another job soon she'll have to move back home to her parents' house.



🗣  I've been keeping my head above water for three months working part-time but my holiday job will be ending soon and I'm not sure what I will do. 
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31 января 2024 08:11

📔 waste one’s breath





📋Meaning
  to say something that will probably be ignored or not have any effect




🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 You could tell her that her hairstyle looks ridiculous but you’d just be wasting your breath.


🗣 I don’t waste my breath asking my kids to get off the Internet—instead I just disconnect it each night at 8 PM.
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30 января 2024 13:46

📔 In the Doghouse





📋Meaning
  in trouble or in a situation where someone is upset or angry with you for some reason.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I'm in the doghouse with my wife again for staying out until 3 AM last night with my buddies and not calling to say I'd be late.

🗣 I got tired of being in the doghouse with my ex-girlfriend all the time. Honestly, I never knew why she was so upset half of the time.
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29 января 2024 10:49

📔 On thin ice




📋Meaning
1 ) in a dangerous position where you could fall or have an unfavorable result;
2) in a risky or uncertain situation.



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🗣 If you keep charging things you can't afford on your credit cards you'll be treading on thin ice in a very short period of time.

🗣 I'm on thin ice with my teacher because I haven't turned in my homework three times this week.
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28 января 2024 10:07

📔 warts and all



📋Meaning
  including bad qualities, habits, etc.



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🗣 My son is a slob but I love him, warts and all.

🗣  The key to a successful marriage is accepting your spouse, warts and all.
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27 января 2024 09:20

📔 leave someone at the alter




📋Meaning
  to abandon someone just before the marriage is supposed to happen.

✍Note
Couples who get married in a church stand in front of a structure called the 'alter'.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 What a jerk! I cannot believe he left her at the alter. How humiliating!

🗣 It's better for someone to leave you at the altar then to be in a miserable marriage.
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25 января 2024 19:46

📔 bump heads with


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

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🗣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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24 января 2024 19:08

📔on the fiddle


📋Meaning
Engaged in deceitful, fraudulent, or dishonest means of obtaining money.


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🗣My career will be over if anyone ever finds out I was on the fiddle during my time as the company treasurer.

🗣There are always politicians on the fiddle, looking for ways to use their positions of power to earn a bit more money.
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23 января 2024 20:16

📔 sleep rough



📋Meaning
To sleep outside at night, usually because one has no home or shelter. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The government's aim is to have the number of people sleeping rough halved in five years' time.

🗣I slept rough for a couple of years after my house was repossessed. It's not something I would wish on anyone.
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22 января 2024 20:55

📔hold (someone) in good stead

📋Especially of a talent, ability, or experience, to prove particularly useful or beneficial to someone in the future.

🗣Janet is hoping her internship working in IT will hold her in good stead when she looks for a job after college.
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21 января 2024 18:43

📔 blow up (one's) phone


📋Meaning
To call someone repeatedly and/or send someone a lot of text messages.

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🗣A: "Hey, your phone keeps lighting up!" B: "Ugh, I wonder who's blowing up my phone."

🗣A: "It's fine, I just texted him a few times." B: "More like 15 times! Stop blowing up his phone!"
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20 января 2024 19:53

💠 hunt where the ducks are

✍🏾 To pursue or look for one's objectives, results, or goals in the place where one is most likely to find them.

If you're looking to expand your customer base, you need to identify who would benefit from your business the most and then hunt where the ducks are
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18 января 2024 07:14

📔 ward off something/someone (ward something/someone off)




📋Meaning
  to try to keep something/someone harmful away



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🗣 This ointment is fantastic for warding off mosquitoes.

🗣 We need all of our citizens to wear masks to help us ward off the Coronavirus.
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17 января 2024 08:43

📔 the dead of winter





📋Meaning
  during the coldest part of the winter



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🗣 I hate waking up in the dark in the dead of winter and having to get out of my warm bed.

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