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09 февраля 2023 20:26
📔 backpedal
📋Meaning
To quickly and often abruptly reverse or retreat from one's position or opinion on a given subject. Refers to pedaling backwards on a bicycle (done to apply the brakes on fixed-gear bikes), or to taking quick, backward steps, as in football or boxing.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The actor had to backpedal when he let slip a racist remark during the press conference.
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08 февраля 2023 18:37
📔 bad hair day
📋Meaning
a bad day in general; a day when many things seem to go wrong
a day when you can't style your hair well and this makes you feel unattractive
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Yesterday, my mom was having a bad hair day so I decided to show her my report card this evening.
🗣 Avoid the boss if you can. He's having yet another bad hair day and is taking his frustrations out on everyone.
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07 февраля 2023 17:51
📔a chip off the old block
📋Meaning
someone who resembles their parent in character or appearance.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"she smiled at Jimmy, a chip off the old block with his gray eyes and a bit of his dad's twinkle"
🗣When we saw the alcoholic's son enter the liquor store, we assumed that he was a chip of the old block.
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06 февраля 2023 20:58
📔 Go with the flow
📋Meaning
To relax and go along with whatever’s happening.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Quite often in life, good things happen when you don’t make plans. Just go with the flow and see what happens!”
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05 февраля 2023 20:56
📔 See eye to eye
📋Meaning
To agree with someone about something
To have the same opinion as someone else about something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My mom and I don't see eye to eye on politics so we discuss other things.
🗣 Happiness is seeing eye to eye with your wife about how to spend money.
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04 февраля 2023 20:35
📔 The grass is greener on the other side
📋Meaning
other people always seem to be in a better situation than you, although they may not be
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Our bookkeeper always imagined that the grass is greener on the other side. She quit her job to pursue a legal education.
🗣 Bob always thinks the grass is greener elsewhere, which accounts for his constant job changes.
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02 февраля 2023 07:12
📔 Up to one's eyeballs
📋Meaning
to have a very large amount of something to do or be very busy with something
to emphasize the extreme degree of some undesirable or unwanted thing
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 We've been using our credit cards so much we're now up to our eyes in debt.
🗣 If you don't wash your clothes again this weekend you'll be up to your eyeballs in laundry.
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01 февраля 2023 04:56
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31 января 2023 19:04
📔 a good voice to beg bacon
📋Meaning
Used to mock someone's voice as being strange, unpleasant, or inadequate (e.g., for singing). Bacon, being a dietary staple in older times, was often used as a metaphor for financial stability or wealth; having the voice of one who must "beg bacon," then, means having a harsh voice, like someone who is undernourished.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Did you hear the way that singer was screeching last night? I'm glad we didn't stay too long, he had a good voice to beg bacon.
🗣I love Alice, but, my goodness, the girl has a good voice to beg bacon! Please do not let her sign up for the talent show.
🗣I like to sing, but only in the shower—I know I have a good voice to beg bacon.
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30 января 2023 20:09
📔 talk a mile a minute
📋Meaning
To speak in a very quick or hurried manner; to talk very fast.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣When the boss gets excited, she starts talking a mile a minute, and I can never follow everything she's trying to say!
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29 января 2023 17:59
📔 funny feeling
📋Meaning
An intuition or premonition about something; a sense of foreknowledge about a situation, condition, or set of circumstances.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I have a funny feeling that this meeting isn't going to end in our favor.
🗣 I have this funny feeling that I've met this person before.
🗣I'm worried about our relationship. I got this funny feeling when I was talking to her last night.
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28 января 2023 20:04
📔 a free bit of advice
📋Meaning
A suggestion, opinion, or piece of advice that was unrequested or unsolicited by the recipient.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Allow me to give you a free bit of advice, my friend: don't say something you'll end up regretting later.
🗣I know you're worried about your kids, but here's a free bit of advice—you can't protect them from every little thing.
🗣Hey, here's a free bit of advice for you during your internship—always be kind and polite. People remember if you treat them well.
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27 января 2023 17:50
📔 freak of nature
📋Meaning
Something or someone that is unusual, rare, or abnormal in some way; beyond or outside the natural world.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The goat they have at the circus sideshow is a real freak of nature, it was born with two heads!
🗣He can lift over 500 pounds in the gym, he's like some freak of nature.
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26 января 2023 04:24
📔 a cut below
📋Meaning
Of lower quality than or inferior to someone or something else, especially that of the expected norm.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣This waiter is really a cut below what I would expect from this restaurant.
🗣Your essay was a cut below, honestly. That's why it didn't win the contest.
🗣I haven't been that impressed with any of the candidates for the sales position—they've just been a cut below.
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10 февраля 2023 03:30
📔 steady as she goes
📋Meaning
Describing an activity or situation that is progressing in a stable manner. This nautical phrase was originally used in reference to a ship that was sailing steadily. (Ships were traditionally referred to as female.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 A: "How's your new business coming along?" B: "Steady as she goes! We expect to break even the first year before we start making a profit."
🗣 In the midst of all this social upheaval, I hope our government can maintain a steady-as-she-goes approach.
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08 февраля 2023 04:09
📔 out of humour
📋Meaning
In an irritable, grouchy, or unhappy mood; not feeling well or in good spirits. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I think something is bugging John because he's been rather out of humour lately.
🗣After living in Gibraltar for so long, these awful London winters leave me feeling me out of humour.
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07 февраля 2023 03:42
📔 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
📋Meaning
proverb Compensation or retribution that is (or should be) of an equal amount or degree to the injury or offense that was originally dealt. The saying comes from various passages in the Bible, including in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I cannot be placated by paltry excuses of reparation! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—this I demand from all who have wronged me.
🗣Some countries have laws that punish crimes with an eye for an eye, most often that killing someone will result in one's death.
🗣The world would be a safer place if more people in power would discourage the practice of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
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06 февраля 2023 05:30
📔 help (someone) out of a fix
📋Meaning
To help someone avoid or escape from some troublesome, difficult, or dangerous position or situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My father's always having to go down to the courthouse to help my knuckle-headed brother out of some fix or another.
🗣Thanks so much for staying late with me to finish that report the other day—you really helped me out of a fix!
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05 февраля 2023 12:42
📔 alarm bell
📋Meaning
A sudden warning or intimation of danger, risk, or ill fortune. (Often pluralized.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Alarm bells were going off in my head when I saw the panicked expression on her face.
🗣The new report set alarm bells ringing among the board members because it forecasts a large decrease in enrollment.
🗣A: "Her new boyfriend's anger management issues don't seem to be setting off an alarm bell for her." B: "Yikes, the situation is worse than I thought."
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04 февраля 2023 05:05
📔 against the collar
📋Meaning
Difficult, exhausting, or problematic. The phrase originates from the collar on a horse's harness, which tightens on the horse's neck when it travels uphill. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was doing fine in the marathon, but it was a bit against the collar for the last couple miles.
🗣I don't think I have time to meet you today. Work has been a bit against the collar recently.
🗣against the collar recently.Getting this late-breaking story finished in time for tomorrow's newspaper was somewhat against the collar, but it's done now, thankfully.
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01 февраля 2023 20:34
📔 harrowing experience
📋Meaning
An experience that is frightening, chilling, or disturbing, either due to an implied or actual element of danger, or from being physically or emotionally unpleasant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣With so much traffic, cycling in this city can be a harrowing experience.
🗣Walking through that graveyard last night was quite the harrowing experience.
🗣The film is very good, but it's a bit of a harrowing experience; it doesn't shy away from intense subject matter.
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01 февраля 2023 03:07
📔 Let the dust settle
📋Meaning
To allow a situation to become calm or normal again after something exciting or unusual has happened.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “You just had big news yesterday, let the dust settle and don’t make any decisions yet.”
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31 января 2023 04:20
📔 safety in numbers
📋Meaning
being in a group offers security and protection
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I prefer to go to parties with a group of friends because there’s safety in numbers.
🗣When protesting an authority, there's definitely more safety in numbers.
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30 января 2023 12:57
📔 To be loaded
📋Meaning
To have a lot of money.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Billy paid his Harvard Law School tuition with cash. His family is loaded.”
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29 января 2023 09:50
📔 stir the pot
📋Meaning
To deliberately try to make a situation or people more tense and upset.
To unnecessarily create trouble or drama, often to get a reaction from someone.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My old girlfriend was always trying to stir the pot and I really hated the drama.
🗣 I look fat in these jeans? Wow, you're really trying to stir the pot.
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28 января 2023 12:37
📔 Stab someone in the back
📋Meaning
to hurt someone who was close to us and trusted us by betraying them secretly and breaking their trust. We call the person who does this a back stabber.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Did you hear that Sarah stabbed Kate in the back last week?”
“No! I thought they were best friends, what did she do?”
“She told their boss that Kate wasn’t interested in a promotion at work and Sarah got it instead.”
“Wow, that’s the ultimate betrayal! No wonder they’re not friends anymore.”
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26 января 2023 20:56
📔 Ring a bell
📋Meaning
the idiom means that somebody has mentioned something that sounds familiar to you, perhaps you’ve heard it before. In other words, when someone says something that you believe you’ve heard in the past, alarm bells start ringing and you try to remember how or why that name or place sounds familiar.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “You’ve met my friend Amy Adams, right?”
“Hmmm, I’m not sure, but that name rings a bell. Was she the one who went to Paris last year?”
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25 января 2023 18:56
📔 Sail close to the wind
📋Meaning
To act just within the limits of what’s legal or socially acceptable, to push boundaries.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “They fired their accountant because he sailed too close to the wind.”
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