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19 декабря 2023 17:42

📔 Kick in




📋Meaning  
1) to start to operate or become effective;
2) to contribute something (especially money).



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Doctor, please do something! The pain killer still hasn't begun to kick in yet.

🗣 The excitement still hasn't kicked in that I got into Stanford University—I'm still in shock.
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18 декабря 2023 09:58

📔 Dog Eat Dog



📋Meaning
  ruthless competition where people will do anything (even harm other people) to succeed at doing something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  I hated living in New York City because even riding the subway to work in the morning was dog eat dog to get a seat.

🗣 Politics is a dog eat dog world.
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17 декабря 2023 10:32

📔 under scrutiny




📋Meaning
  being closely watched, examined or investigated


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 The police had three people under close scrutiny for the theft of the art gallery’s paintings.

🗣 My children have been under a lot of scrutiny since I ran for public office.
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16 декабря 2023 09:38

📔 a fly on the wall



📋Meaning
  to be able to secretly hear and observe something


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My manager just got called into the director’s office.  Oh, how I’d love to be a fly on the wall!

🗣  Our teacher just got called into the principal's office and I wish I could be a fly on the wall!
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14 декабря 2023 19:10

💠case of the dropsy
✍🏾A fictitious "condition" characterized by continually dropping things from one's hands. It is a play on the term "dropsy," which was formerly used to denote the condition now known as edema (or oedema).
I've broken four or five plates since I started work. I guess I've got a bad case of the dropsy today.
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13 декабря 2023 19:32

📔 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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12 декабря 2023 18:37

📔 up the walls


📋Meaning
Extremely busy or overworked; having many things to contend with at once. Primarily heard in UK, Ireland.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Sorry I haven't been in touch, but between work and our new baby, I've just been up the walls lately!

🗣Thank goodness you're here, Mary, we're up the walls in here! Could you take this order out to table 10 straight away, please?
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11 декабря 2023 19:59

📔 poetry in motion


📋Meaning
Something that is very elegant, graceful, and/or beautiful to observe, especially dance or the performing arts.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The ballet was sublime to watch, truly poetry in motion.
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10 декабря 2023 19:48

📔an/the olive branch

📋Meaning
A symbol, expression, or gesture of peace, reconciliation, truce, etc. Used most commonly in the phrase "hold out/offer (someone) an/the olive branch."

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The conservatives in Congress seem to be offering the olive branch to Democrats on the issue of raising the debt ceiling.

🗣If you find yourself in a spat with a friend, try to be the bigger person and be the one to hold out the olive branch.
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09 декабря 2023 19:00

📔 brace of shakes


📋Meaning
Instantly, quickly, or in an extremely short amount of time, as of a task or event. "Brace," taken from the old French for the arms' breadth from hand to hand, means twice; the phrase as a whole refers either to an old nautical term, meaning the time it takes the sail to shake twice as it takes up the wind, or else the short time it takes to shake a dice-box twice. Often used in the phrase "in a brace of shakes."

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'll have that ready for you in a brace of shakes.

🗣We'll be there in a brace of shakes.
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07 декабря 2023 17:43

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07 декабря 2023 07:53

📔 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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06 декабря 2023 10:36

📔 wear the pants



📋Meaning
  to be the person who makes all of the decisions or is the dominant partner in a relationship



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My grandma was a tiny little lady but she definitely wore the pants in her marriage.

🗣 Everyone thinks the director's so tough but his secretary wears the pants in their work relationship.
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05 декабря 2023 08:33

📔 tighten one's belt



📋Meaning
  to spend less than usual in order to save money.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I have a feeling my son will be tightening his belt this semester since we decided to give him a strict allowance rather then sending him money every time he asked.

🗣 We had to tighten our belts when my husband lost his job. 
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04 декабря 2023 08:05

📔 sweater up



📋Meaning
  to put on a sweater in order to stay warm in cold weather


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I really love to sweater up in the winter. I can't wait to go shopping at LL Bean for a few new sweaters.

🗣 My brother took a really cute picture of our kids sweatered up and playing in the leaves. I think I'll use that one for our Christmas cards this year.
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19 декабря 2023 07:47

💠 honest to pete

✍🏾 Honestly; truly; genuinely. An expression used to emphasize the veracity of one's statement, "Pete" here is a substitution of the word "God," so as to avoid potential blasphemy.

I swear it wasn't me who broke the lamp, honest to Pete!
Honest to Pete, how are we supposed to finish this project on time with half of our staff laid off?
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17 декабря 2023 18:00

📔 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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16 декабря 2023 18:52

📔a night out

📋Meaning
An evening spent having an enjoyable time away from home, as in a restaurant, theater, bar, or other such locations.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Hey John, some people in the office are planning a night out this Friday. Would you like to join us?
🗣I never knew how much I would miss being able to have a night out once we had kids.
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14 декабря 2023 08:25

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13 декабря 2023 09:17

📔 boxed in




📋Meaning
  feeling restricted or stuck due to one's limited options


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🗣 Sandra felt boxed in after having her third child because she couldn't afford child care.

🗣 Once I started working for myself as a freelancer I didn't feel so boxed in about what type of clients I could work with.
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12 декабря 2023 09:43

📔 in demand



📋Meaning
 something that is needed or desired by many people

popular and wanted



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🗣 What kinds of new college graduates are in demand with private companies these days?

🗣 Full-figured and ethnic models are more and more in demand each year.
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11 декабря 2023 07:30

📔 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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10 декабря 2023 08:04

📔 up for grabs




📋Meaning
 possible for anyone to have

available and ready for anyone to take


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Apple just announced a contest and a new MacBook is up for grabs.

🗣 There are some gently-used ski jackets up for grabs in the staff lounge if anyone is interested.
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09 декабря 2023 09:16

📔 wait tables



📋Meaning
  to serve customers food and beverages in a restaurant or cafe


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I waited tables for five years to pay expenses while I was in college.


🗣 Waiting tables is a popular job for students and artists.
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07 декабря 2023 17:33

📔 spit (out) the dummy



📋Meaning
To have a childish overreaction or angry outburst to a negative situation or outcome; to act in a bad-tempered manner, likened to a temper tantrum of a child. "Dummy" here refers to a plastic teat used to soothe teething infants (also called a "pacifier" in the U.S. or a "soother" elsewhere), which they may spit when in the middle of a tantrum. Primarily heard in Australia.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣John spat the dummy when I told him I'd sold his old comic book collection.

🗣Don't go spitting out the dummy just because Cheryl got the promotion instead of you.
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06 декабря 2023 18:48

📔 go to wrack and ruin



📋Meaning
cliché To fall into severe or total decay, degradation, or ruination, as from disuse or lack of upkeep. ("Wrack," a now-archaic word meaning wreckage or destruction, is also often spelled "rack.")


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣It greatly pains me that my grandfather's estate has been left to go to wrack and ruin. If only we'd been able to afford for someone to look after it all these years.

🗣The neighbor's property has really gone to wrack and ruin lately. I'm thinking about filing a complaint with the neighborhood association!
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05 декабря 2023 17:56

📔 lay hold of (someone or something)



📋Meaning
To grasp or grip someone or something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Lay hold of that end of the sheet and pull it straight.

🗣I tried to lay hold of her before she fell off the step, but it happened too fast.
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04 декабря 2023 17:37

📔on the upswing

📋Showing or experiencing a noticeable or conspicuous increase, improvement, or expansion.

🗣The last few years were hard on our company, but we're finally starting to get back on the upswing.
🗣The small country has been one of the few economies in the region to be on the upswing since the recession.
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03 декабря 2023 17:12

📔 run a temperature



📋Meaning
To have an abnormally high body temperature (a fever), which is indicative of or caused by illness.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Dan: "How's Pete feeling?" Marshall: "Well, he ran a temperature last night, but he seemed a lot better this morning after some rest."

🗣I think I've started running a temperature. Maybe I should go lie down.
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