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25 мая 2023 17:30

📔 knock one's socks off


📋Meaning
  to impress someone


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This song will knock your socks off.
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25 мая 2023 09:50

📔 pitch a fit


📋Meaning
To become very or unreasonably angry or upset; to have an outburst of rage, frustration, or ill temper.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My mom's going to pitch a fit when she sees what happened to the car!

🗣I was so embarrassed when Danny started pitching a fit in the grocery store.
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24 мая 2023 05:30

📔 with all (one's) might


📋Meaning
Utilizing all of one's power and strength to do something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I pulled at the rope with all my might, but we still lost the tug-of-war.

🗣I swear, your dog pulls at these toys with all his might. He'll drag us through the yard one day!
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23 мая 2023 11:48

📔 the outside world



📋Meaning
The people, culture, ideas, or experiences beyond an enclosed, sheltered, or remote place, situation or environment.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Being raised out on the farm meant Jacob had little knowledge of the outside world.

🗣Anthropologists came upon an indigenous society that had had no previous contact with the outside world.
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22 мая 2023 05:30

📔 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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21 мая 2023 05:31

📔 snow on the mountain



📋Meaning
Silver, grey, or white hair on one's head, as due to aging.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Sure, there's a bit of snow on the mountain, but I still lead as adventurous a life as I ever have!
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20 мая 2023 05:30

📔 take ill



📋Meaning
To be or become sick or unwell.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I heard your sister has taken ill recently. I hope that it isn't anything too serious?
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18 мая 2023 17:31

📔 with reckless abandon



📋Meaning
With rash, unrestrained impulsiveness, enthusiasm, or zeal.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Ever since my brother got that car for his birthday, he's been motoring around at night with reckless abandon.

🗣The insurgents set upon the town and began firing their weapons with reckless abandon.
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18 мая 2023 05:30

📔at stake


📋Meaning
If something is at stake, it is being risked and might be lost or damaged if you are not successful.

🤔For example ⬇️


🗣two lives are at stake.

🗣The tension was naturally high for a game with so much at stake.
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17 мая 2023 09:15

📔 Look like a million dollars/bucks



📋Meaning
 If someone tells you that you look like a million bucks, you should take it as a huge compliment because it means you look absolutely fabulous and really attractive.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Wow, Mary, you look like a million dollars/bucks this evening. I love your dress!”
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16 мая 2023 08:17

📔 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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14 мая 2023 18:57

📔 squirrel away



📋Meaning
To hide, save or put things away to use in the future.
To put in a safe or secret place for future use.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 She squirreled away money each month to buy a new car. 

🗣 If you're just squirreling away various English learning materials instead of using them, you'll never improve your English.
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13 мая 2023 17:30

📔 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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12 мая 2023 05:30

📔 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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11 мая 2023 05:44

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24 мая 2023 17:31

📔 cut corners



📋Meaning
  do something perfunctorily so as to save time or money.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "there is always a temptation to cut corners when time is short"
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23 мая 2023 17:30

📔 Sail close to the wind




📋Meaning
  To act just within the limits of what’s legal or socially acceptable, to push boundaries.



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🗣 “They fired their accountant because he sailed too close to the wind.”
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22 мая 2023 17:30

📔 To go from rags to riches




📋Meaning
  To go from being poor to having a lot of money.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Actor Jim Carrey went from rags to riches. At one time, he was living in a van, but he continued to work hard and eventually became one of the highest-paid comedians in the world.”
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21 мая 2023 17:30

📔 tickle the ivories / ivory




📋Meaning
  play the piano



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🗣 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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20 мая 2023 17:30

📔 go with the flow


📋Meaning
be relaxed and accept a situation, rather than trying to alter or control it.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Just relax and go with the flow!
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19 мая 2023 17:31

📔 Blow off steam



📋Meaning
  If you’re feeling angry, stressed or are experiencing some strong feelings and you want to get rid of them so you feel better again, you will blow off steam by doing something such as exercising to get rid of the stress.



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“He had a fight with his brother, so he went for a run to blow off steam.”


🗣 "I just needed to walk to blow off steam"
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18 мая 2023 09:18

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17 мая 2023 19:21

📔 screw (one's) courage to the sticking place



📋Meaning
To remain bold, resolute, determined, and courageous, especially in the face of possible danger, difficulty, hardship, or adversity. Taken from a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth: "We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail."


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🗣I'm really nervous about asking Sarah out on a date, but I'm going to screw my courage to the sticking place and ask her by the end of the day.
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16 мая 2023 18:24

📔(Go) tell it/that to Sweeney!


📋Meaning
dated A scornful or incredulous response to a story or statement that one does not believe or finds ridiculous.


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A: "I bet you I could eat 20 hot dogs in less than half an hour!" B: "Tell that to Sweeney, pal!"A: "I bet you I could eat 20 hot dogs in less than half an hour!" B: "Tell that to Sweeney, pal!"

🗣Yeah, right, like you're related to that famous astronaut. Tell it to Sweeney.
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15 мая 2023 17:31

📔 romp home



📋Meaning
To deftly or easily win a race, contest, or competition. Primarily heard in UK.


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🗣With her arch-rival out of commission with a pulled hamstring, the defending champion romped home at the Olympics once again.

🗣Showing their utter superiority on the pitch, the boys in blue look set to romp home to a 6–2 victory.
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14 мая 2023 06:59

📔 shank's nag



📋Meaning
One's legs and feet, used for walking; travel by foot. Also "shanks' nag." A reference to the shank— the lower leg between the knee and the ankle—and the use of ponies or horses for travel.


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🗣My bicycle fell apart three miles away from home, so I had to use shank's nag to go the rest of the way.

🗣Unfortunately, with the sedentary lifestyle many lead today, shank's nag has largely become an obsolete mode of travel.
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12 мая 2023 17:31

📔 curse a blue streak


📋Meaning
To use profane language with great rapidity and intensity.


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🗣My dad cursed a blue streak after he found out I'd put a dent in his car.
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11 мая 2023 17:30

📔 send a shiver down (one's) spine



📋Meaning
To cause an intense feeling of excitement, exhilaration, nervousness, or fear in someone.


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🗣The way that sonata swells always sends a shiver down my spine.

🗣It sent a shiver down my spine when Dorothy gave me such an amorous look.

🗣Can we get out of here? This creepy old house is sending a shiver down my spine!
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11 мая 2023 05:30

📔 bear fruit




📋Meaning
to yield a positive result
to produce a desired result



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 You've been going to the library everyday for the past two months so I really hope your studying bears fruit this semester.

🗣  We were pleased to see that our management training program bore fruit when staff retention and productivity both increased by more than 50% over the past year.
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