📔 a ballpark figure | a ballpark estimate
📋Meaning
If you give a ballpark figure or a ballpark estimate, you give a number which you think is fairly close to the actual one.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣We don't know the exact cost, but a ballpark figure would be around six million dollars.
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📔 At the drop of a hat (part of a sentence)
📋Meaning
To do something without any hesitation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 If Tara hears her favorite song, she’ll belt out the lyrics at the drop of a hat.
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📔 Drink like a fish
📋Meaning
to drink too much alcohol at one time.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I'm worried about Paul—he's been drinking like a fish again.
🗣 I hate going to fraternity parties—it's not very fun when I'm sober and everyone else is drinking like a fish.
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📔 Down in the dumps
📋Meaning
sad, unhappy, discouraged and/or depressed.
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🗣I've been down in the dumps since I realized my boyfriend is not in love with me.🥺💔
🗣I've been down in the dumps since my cat died.
🗣Every winter I feel down in the dumps when it gets dark really early in the evening.
🗣She's been down in the dumps since her parents announced they are getting divorced.
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📔 quake like a leaf
📋Meaning
To tremble violently with fear or nervousness.
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🗣I was quaking like a leaf when I went up to deliver my speech.
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📔 blow (one's) stack
📋Meaning
To become very angry, often quickly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Oh man, Dad is going to blow his stack when he sees that I wrecked his car!
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📔 plastic grin
📋Meaning
A forced, artificial smile; a smile someone wears despite having no feelings of happiness or joy.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣John seemed fine at first glance, but before long I could tell that he was wearing a plastic grin and that something was bothering him.
🗣Look at his big plastic grin—he's such a con man! I sure hope he doesn't win the election.
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📔 be in pursuit
📋Meaning
Following or chasing someone or something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The burglar got away, but I called the police, and now they're in pursuit.
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📔 give (someone) the stink eye
📋Meaning
To make a facial expression of unreserved disgust, contempt, disapproval, distrust, or general ill will toward someone.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Some guy across the bar has been giving me the stink eye since we came in. It must be something to do with my outfit.
🗣I must have done something wrong on Friday because the boss gave me the stink eye as soon as I came into work on Monday.
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📔 stuffed to the gills
📋Meaning
Completely full; teeming; having no room to spare.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I've got so many meetings and deadlines these days that my schedule is stuffed to the gills!
🗣Her mind was stuffed to the gills with ideas for her new book.
🗣I felt stuffed to the gills after my grandmother's Thanksgiving meal.
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📔odd duck
📋Meaning
A rather unusual, strange, or peculiar person.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣His new girlfriend is nice enough, but she's a bit of an odd duck, don't you think?
🗣Jake is a bit of an odd duck, a zealous survivalist who has trained his son in the arts of camouflage, self-defense and living off the grid.
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📔 knock one's socks off
📋Meaning
to impress someone
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣This song will knock your socks off.
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📔 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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📔 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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📔 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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📔 not utter a word
📋Meaning
To be completely silent; to remain discreet (about something); to not tell anyone (about something).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣All the while our father was shouting at us, my sister and I didn't utter a word.
🗣Tom, don't you dare utter a word about this! I would die of embarrassment if anyone were to find out.
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📔 sleep like a baby
📋Meaning
To experience a very deep and restful sleep; to sleep soundly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I can't believe you finished a triathlon! You're going to sleep like a baby tonight.
🗣I have to set numerous alarms for the morning because I sleep like a baby every night!
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📔 close as the bark to the tree
📋Meaning
As connected as is possible. Often used to describe a particularly intimate relationship or friendship.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Jenna and Elise are as close as the bark to the tree—I rarely see one without the other!
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📔 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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📔 At a snail's pace
📋Meaning
Very slowly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I'm never coming to this restaurant again. They serve the food at a snail's pace.
🗣I recommend you bring a book when you go to the post office. It's the holidays and they always work at a snail's pace this time of year.
🗣 Traffic was moving at a snail's pace so I arrived 45 minutes late for work.
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📔 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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📔 Lost at sea
📋Meaning
To be confused about something or to feel unsure about what to do.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “I am lost at sea with this new system at work. I just can’t understand it.”
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📔 To have sticky fingers
📋Meaning
To be a thief.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “The manager fired the cashier because he had sticky fingers. He stole more than $200 in a month.”
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📔 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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📔know the ropes
📋Meaning
To know how to do something properly; from novice crew members on sailing ships having to learn what all the ropes were for and how to handle them.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣“You won't have to train the new computer operator; she already knows the ropes.”
🗣He tried hiring more salesmen to push his radio products, but they took too much time to learn the ropes.
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📚give the green light
✍🏾Meaning
If you give something the green light, you give permission for it to be done, or allow it to happen.
❗️For example
🔸The government has given the green light to our tree-planting project, so we can go ahead and start organizing things.
🔸As soon as our CEO gives the new product the green light, we'll start planning production.
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📔 cut corners
📋Meaning
do something perfunctorily so as to save time or money.
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📔 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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