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02 марта 2023 16:30
📔 canary in a/the coal mine
📋Meaning
Something or someone who, due to sensitivity to his, her, or its surroundings, acts as an indicator and early warning of possible adverse conditions or danger. Refers to the former practice of taking caged canaries into coal mines. The birds would die if methane gas became present and thereby alert miners to the danger.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Wildlife in disaster movies assumes the role of the canary in the coal mine, fleeing the scene when catastrophe is imminent.
🗣Unaware that he had been given the test drug, John was used as a canary in the coal mine to see its effects on the human mind.
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02 марта 2023 04:30
📔 back away from (something/someone)
📋Meaning
to move away from something or stop supporting something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Our supervisor wanted us to start working on Sundays but after everyone complained he backed away from the idea.
🗣 The government has backed away from plans to increase taxes.
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01 марта 2023 04:32
📔out of the frying pan (and) into the fire
📋Meaning
From a bad, stressful, or dangerous situation into one that is even worse.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Those poor refugees escaped the famine but ended up in a war zone—out of the frying pan into the fire.
🗣I thought my old job was stressful, but my new one is 10 times worse. It's like going out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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28 февраля 2023 04:33
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27 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 a sticky situation
📋Meaning
A particularly awkward, embarrassing, precarious, or difficult situation or circumstance. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I found myself in a bit of a sticky situation when the boss saw me kissing his daughter at the movies.
🗣I'll be in quite a sticky situation if I arrive at the train station and don't have enough money for the tickets!
🗣We have to fire the headmaster's son for sleeping on the job? Oh great, there's a sticky situation.
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26 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 between dog and wolf
📋Meaning
Between dusk and daylight.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣What were you guys doing out between dog and wolf? You better not have been getting into trouble last night!
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25 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 lap up
📋Meaning
To ingest something, usually a liquid, by licking. A noun or pronoun can be used between "lap" and "up."
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Those kittens must have been hungry—they've already lapped up all the milk in the saucer.
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24 февраля 2023 17:03
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24 февраля 2023 05:50
📔 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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22 февраля 2023 18:13
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22 февраля 2023 04:32
📔 tickle the ivories / ivory
📋Meaning
play the piano
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I learned to tickle the ivories from a very young age so I've been dreaming of getting a grand piano for most of my life.
🗣 My grandfather used to tickle the ivories for a living.
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21 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 bore the pants off
📋Meaning
to be extremely boring or uninteresting to someone else.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Spending the weekend with my in-laws really bored the pants off me.
🗣 Not only do my grandfather's good-old-days stories bore the pants off me but he also tells the same stories over and over again.
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20 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 unsung hero
📋Meaning
Someone who has done something heroic or achieved greatness but has not been recognized or celebrated for the achievement
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Two men were unsung heroes rescuing several puppies from the fire after the police determined it was too dangerous to enter the burning house.
🗣 My colleague was really the unsung hero for the development of our most successful product this year.
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19 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 Break the bank
📋Meaning
To be very expensive.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Taking a week-long vacation would break the bank. There’s no way I could afford to do it.”
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01 марта 2023 16:30
📔 bystander effect
📋Meaning
A social psychological phenomenon in which the more people there are viewing a crisis or crime, the less likely they are to offer aid to the victim(s). Also known as bystander apathy.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Over 30 people saw the mugging take place, but due to the bystander effect, none of them intervened.
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28 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 by stealth
📋Meaning
In an undetected way; silently and secretly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The cat burglar entered the office by stealth, and the only evidence he was there was the missing document.
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28 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 Gain ground
📋Meaning
To become popular, to make progress, to advance.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “As Airbnb gains ground in many cities all over the world, many locals complain that they can no longer find a place to live. Landlords would rather rent their places out to tourists and earn more money.”
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27 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 make someone sick
📋Meaning
to make someone appalled, shocked or disgusted.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I can’t believe you ate that entire bucket of fried chicken—you make me sick.
🗣 Listening to my sister talk to her boyfriend in her whiny baby voice makes me so sick.
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26 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 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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25 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 break the ice
📋Meaning
To do or say something to make people more relaxed in a social situation and get people talking to each other (e.g., party, business meeting, conference, first day of class).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 At the conference will have several activities to help people break the ice.
🗣 It’s always easiest to break the ice with a few drinks.
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24 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 cloud the issue
📋Meaning
To obfuscate or distract from the topic at hand by introducing irrelevant or misleading information.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Politicians are always clouding the issue during debates by pointing out their opponents' history in other issues.
🗣Don't cloud the issue with talk about your past achievements, stick to the question I'm asking you.
🗣His muddled explanation only served to cloud the issue further for his students.
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23 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 with (one's) head held high
📋Meaning
Displaying pride and confidence, often (but not always) after something has gone wrong.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Even though I knew I blew the presentation, I walked out of the conference room with my head held high… and then cried in my car.
🗣After hearing that he had been named to the all-star team, Paul walked through the halls with his head held high.
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23 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 be snowed under
📋Meaning
To be very busy or overwhelmed with something. This phrase evokes the image of being buried under an avalanche.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Kate's not coming tonight because she's snowed under with research for her thesis.
🗣 I'd love to go out to dinner tonight, but I'm totally snowed under at the office right now.
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22 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 brood over
📋Meaning
To worry anxiously or be despondent about something or someone, especially at great length and in isolation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I know you're upset about failing your exam, but don't brood over it all weekend.
🗣Tom's been brooding over our financial situation ever since he got laid off last month.
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21 февраля 2023 16:31
📔 broken record
📋Meaning
A person or thing that repeats itself over and over again. Likened to vinyl records that when severely scratched (i.e., "broken") can loop over the same recorded segment endlessly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I feel like a broken record having to tell you this each day, but please clean your room!
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20 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 a bridge too far
📋Meaning
cliché An act or plan whose ambition overreaches its capability, resulting in or potentially leading to difficulty or failure. Taken from the 1974 book A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan, which details the Allies' disastrous attempts to capture German-controlled bridges in the Netherlands during World War II.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The multi-million-dollar purchase of the small startup proved a bridge too far for the social media company, as the added revenue couldn't make up for the cost in the end.
🗣Look, I'm happy to help you guys out, but I'm not willing be the primary investor in your invention—that's just a bridge too far.Apparently, signing an A-list player is just a bridge too far for this team! They'd rather wallow in their mediocrity, I guess.
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19 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 break into a smile
📋Meaning
To start smiling.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Even though she scolded me for disrupting class, I'm pretty sure I saw Ms. Miller break into a smile for a second.
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18 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 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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