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04 января 2024 07:18
📔 safe and sound
📋Meaning
not hurt or injured
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My dog disappeared for two days and I was so worried but today she showed up safe and sound.
🗣 Drive safely, and when you get home don’t forget to call us to let us know you’ve arrived safe and sound.
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03 января 2024 06:50
📔 that ship has sailed
📋Meaning
an opportunity has already passed and is no longer possible
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I've thought about going back to college but I feel like that ship has sailed.
🗣 We bought a different house because by the time we decided on the other one, that ship had already sailed.
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02 января 2024 10:57
📔 take after someone
📋Meaning
to resemble, look like or have the same qualities as a relative
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My son takes after his grandfather with his musical talent.
🗣 It’s strange but I don’t really take after anyone in my family—everyone is short and has dark hair while I’m tall with blonde hair and green eyes.
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01 января 2024 10:12
📔 make off with something
📋Meaning
to steal something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Unbelievable. Someone made off with the new bottle of hand lotion I put on my desk.
🗣 I had a party Friday night and one of the guests made off with several of my bracelets.
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31 декабря 2023 09:21
📔 the world is your oyster
📋Meaning
used to say that you can do anything or go anywhere you want in life.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 That's awesome you're learning English. With English, the world is your oyster!
🗣 You're young and beautiful. Don't be sad, the world is your oyster.
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30 декабря 2023 10:47
📔 warm up to (someone/something)
📋Meaning
to begin to like someone/something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My mother is so afraid of everything she’s just beginning to warm up to using the microwave.
🗣 Since our baby was born, my father is finally starting to warm up to my husband.
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28 декабря 2023 19:19
📔on the down low
📋Meaning 1
In a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge; being known only by a select few people.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Keep this on the down low, but Janet is planning to break up with Kevin next week.
🗣My parents know about the pregnancy, but I'd like it to stay on the down low otherwise.
📋Meaning 2
In a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge pertaining to the activities of a man who has sex with other men but considers himself to be heterosexual.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I never thought he was gay, but then I started to hear rumors that he's on the down low.
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27 декабря 2023 19:02
📔 be put out of business
📋Meaning
To be caused or forced to cease carrying on commercial trading or transactions.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Our bookstore has been a part of the neighborhood for nearly 50 years, but we're being put out of business by these new electronic books that you can download.
🗣I hear that Mike's company has been put out of business due to allegations of insider trading.
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26 декабря 2023 18:27
📔(the) next thing (one) knows
📋Meaning
All of a sudden; out of nowhere; without warning.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was standing in line, minding my own business, when the next thing I know, a gunman runs into the bank and starts screaming at us to get on the ground!
🗣Tammy had only been on a few dates with Mark, but this one had been going smoothly. Next thing she knew, he got on one knee and proposed to her.
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25 декабря 2023 17:28
📔like cheese at four pence
📋In an idle, awkward, and/or out-of-place state; being ignored, abandoned, or left to wait awkwardly. Primarily heard in UK.
🗣The receptionist was called away before I was done telling her what I needed, leaving me standing there like cheese at four pence.
🗣Well, don't just sit there like cheese at four pence—speak up and say what's on your mind!
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24 декабря 2023 07:47
📔 seep away
📋Meaning
Literally, of a gas or liquid, to flow out and escape from (something) gradually but steadily, as through a leak, crack, puncture, etc.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Make sure you close the valve tight on that jar—we don't want any of the gas to seep away.
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23 декабря 2023 09:52
💠he-man
✍🏾A particularly strong, tough, and/or virile male, especially one who likes to flaunt his strength.
Janet's always dated these bulked up he-men, so there's no way she'd be interested in a scrawny guy like me.
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21 декабря 2023 17:33
📔 In a nutshell
📋Meaning
a brief / short summary of something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 In a nutshell, my parents grounded me for five weeks after they caught me smoking behind the house.
🗣 I'm sorry to interrupt you but could you please give us your point in a nutshell?
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20 декабря 2023 19:54
📔 third time lucky / third time's the charm
📋Meaning
the third time you try to do something you succeed
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I applied for a job with the United Nations three years in a row and finally got offered a job. As they say third time lucky!
🗣Most people give up the first time they fail. Too bad they forget that third time's the charm.
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04 января 2024 20:38
📔 in the middle of nowhere
📋Meaning
In a very distant, remote, and isolated location.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'll never understand why they built this campus out here in the middle of nowhere.
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03 января 2024 18:50
💠 use up
✍🏾To deplete an entire supply or amount of something.
I can't believe you used up all of my shampoo and just left the empty bottle in the shower!
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02 января 2024 19:44
📔 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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01 января 2024 19:21
💠 house cooling party
✍🏾 A party thrown to commemorate when someone leaves an apartment, flat, or house.
We've loved living in this place, so we've decided to throw a house cooling party for all our friends to celebrate all the good times we've had here.
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31 декабря 2023 20:30
📔 in front of (one's) very eyes
📋Meaning
Right in plain sight or while one is watching.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Someone smashed into my parked car in front of my very eyes.Each day, in front of our very eyes, we see signs of poverty and need on our city's streets.
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30 декабря 2023 18:37
📔 one-up (someone)
📋Meaning
To make a point of outdoing, outperforming, outclassing, etc., someone.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I hate telling stories around Jack because he always tries to one-up you with some fabulous anecdote of his own.
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28 декабря 2023 07:01
📔 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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27 декабря 2023 09:51
📔 Beat the pants off
📋Meaning
to easily win against someone by a large margin or score; to surpass or be more successful than another.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My son was so embarrassed when his younger sister beat the pants off him in chess.
🗣When it comes to ticket sales the Harry Potter movies beat the pants off the Twilight series.
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26 декабря 2023 09:10
📔 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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24 декабря 2023 20:01
📔 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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23 декабря 2023 19:04
📔 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 декабря 2023 10:53
📔 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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20 декабря 2023 09:49
📔 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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