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06 февраля 2024 10:34

📔 As cool as a cucumber





📋Meaning
  calm and relaxed (especially in a difficult or stressful situation).


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My boss is as cool as a cucumber even when he speaks in front of hundreds of people.

🗣 Even though she'd just lost her job, she came to the party as cool as a cucumber.   
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05 февраля 2024 07:18

📔 Hit the Road



📋Meaning
  to leave (especially to go home); to depart on a journey (especially to travel to a place by car).



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I'm sorry but I have to go home—we're hitting the road to Chicago early in the morning.  

🗣 What time are we hitting the road tomorrow?
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04 февраля 2024 10:35

📔 Sleep like a log





📋Meaning
  to sleep very soundly (deeply) — so well that noises don't even wake you up.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My husband slept like a log the entire flight but I didn't even get five minutes of sleep.  

🗣 Take this pill at bedtime and you'll sleep like a log tonight.    
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03 февраля 2024 07:20

📔 You rock!




📋Meaning
  To say someone or something rocks means that you think that person or thing is great, or awesome, or cool.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Hey, thanks for moving my sofa on Saturday. You rock!

🗣  “How was your event last night?” “Excellent! It rocked!”
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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



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 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.



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🗣 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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05 февраля 2024 20:14

💠 hot desking

✍🏾 The act or practice of sharing desks or workstations between employees in an office so as to cut down on the amount of office space required.

I've never worked in a company that did hot desking before; while it was strange not having my own desk at first, with everything done on laptops you barely notice it after a while!
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04 февраля 2024 19:57

📔in (one's) heyday

📋In, at, or during the period of one's greatest success, power, vigor, etc.

🗣In my heyday as a stock broker, I was making millions of dollars each year, but when the economy crashed, I lost nearly everything.
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03 февраля 2024 18:50

📔 scare story



📋Meaning
A story or rumor that makes something seem more serious, dreadful, or terrifying than it really is.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Every year around Halloween, there's some scare story in the news about razor blades being found in candy.

🗣You just can't listen to all the scare stories people love to spread or you'd end up being afraid of everything!
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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




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🗣 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.



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🗣 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.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣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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