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20 января 2024 19:53

💠 hunt where the ducks are

✍🏾 To pursue or look for one's objectives, results, or goals in the place where one is most likely to find them.

If you're looking to expand your customer base, you need to identify who would benefit from your business the most and then hunt where the ducks are
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19 января 2024 12:56

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18 января 2024 07:14

📔 ward off something/someone (ward something/someone off)




📋Meaning
  to try to keep something/someone harmful away



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 This ointment is fantastic for warding off mosquitoes.

🗣 We need all of our citizens to wear masks to help us ward off the Coronavirus.
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17 января 2024 08:43

📔 the dead of winter





📋Meaning
  during the coldest part of the winter



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I hate waking up in the dark in the dead of winter and having to get out of my warm bed.

🗣 I moved to South Florida because even in the dead of winter it doesn't get cold.
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16 января 2024 07:14

📔 walk someone through something




📋Meaning
  to explain how to do something in detail

to guide someone carefully or step-by-step about how to do something



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I wish you would've walked Samantha through the budget process. Now we need to go back and fix some of the coding.

🗣 I've walked Karen through QuickBooks at least seven times in the past two weeks and she's not grasping anything.
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15 января 2024 11:07

📔 when pigs fly




📋Meaning
  Never



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 We use this phrase to say that something is never going to happen.


🗣 It's sometimes also used to describe things that have a very small chance of happening.
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14 января 2024 09:30

📔 On the ball




📋Meaning
  to be alert, focused and able to react to something quickly.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My assistant is amazing. He's always on the ball noticing mistakes and offering valuable suggestions.  

🗣 Although he doesn't have a medical condition he uses the same prescription medication that people who have ADHD use to stay on the ball during exams.
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13 января 2024 12:22

📔 with you back against the wall




📋Meaning
  in a difficult situation without many options



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I wish I could help you, but my back is against the wall because I don’t get paid for two more weeks.

🗣 After failing three quizzes, my son's back is against the wall and he's got to pass all of the rest of them.
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11 января 2024 19:12

📔 Were you born in a tent?


📋Meaning
Have you no basic manners? (Usually said after someone has left open a door to the outside.)


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Shut the door, it's freezing outside! Were you born in a tent?
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10 января 2024 19:49

📔 (the) man/woman of the hour


📋Meaning
A person currently being celebrated, honored, or admired by others, especially for a recent victory, accomplishment, or other cause for celebration.

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🗣 Janet was woman of the hour at the office after securing the biggest customer their business had ever had.

🗣 Ruth: "Hey, what's going on here?" Dave: "It's a surprise birthday party for you, Ruth! You're the woman of the hour!"

🗣 After writing that bombshell exposé about corruption in Washington, Jake was the man of the hour.
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10 января 2024 07:05

📔 stir the pot




📋Meaning
  To deliberately try to make a situation or people more tense and upset.

To unnecessarily create trouble or drama, often to get a reaction from someone.


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🗣 My old girlfriend was always trying to stir the pot and I really hated the drama.

🗣 I look fat in these jeans? Wow, you're really trying to stir the pot.
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09 января 2024 10:31

📔 a race against time




📋Meaning
  A situation where someone has to finish something quickly, in a short or limited amount of time.



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🗣 Last night we were racing against time to put the packets together before the conference started today.

🗣  It's a real race against the clock to prevent the spread of the Zika virus.
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08 января 2024 08:11

📔 unsung hero




📋Meaning
  Someone who has done something heroic or achieved greatness but has not been recognized or celebrated for the achievement



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🗣 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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07 января 2024 10:36

📔 Thank your lucky stars





📋Meaning
  to be grateful and feel lucky (especially that something bad didn't happen)



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 We thanked our lucky stars that the tree that fell on our house did not injure anyone.

🗣 You should thank your lucky stars you didn't get COVID at that crowded party.
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06 января 2024 09:13

📔  The lion's share




📋Meaning
  The largest part (or share) of something.



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🗣My son is upset that his brother got the lion's share of the cake but I explained this was fair because it was his birthday.

🗣My husband does help out at home with some cleaning and cooking, but like most women, I do the lion's share of the housework.
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20 января 2024 10:42

📔 Like a thief in the night




📋Meaning
  something moving quickly, secretly and unexpectedly without being seen.



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🗣 My ex-boyfriend captured my heart like a thief in the night. Although I discovered he was married shortly after meeting him, I was already crazy in love.

🗣 COVID-19 really hit the world like a thief in the night. It's heartbreaking that years later it's still disrupted normal ways of life.
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18 января 2024 20:17

📔 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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17 января 2024 20:46

📔 Peter Pan syndrome



📋Meaning
A psychological state or condition in which a grown person cannot or refuses to act like an adult; a stubborn and persistent immaturity found in an adult person.


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🗣I seem cursed to only find men who have some damned Peter Pan syndrome. I'm tired of going out with guys who act like children!
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16 января 2024 19:31

📔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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15 января 2024 19:44

📔be cleaned out

📋To be emptied or devoid of money, food, resources, etc.

🗣I'd like to play another round of poker, but I'm totally cleaned out!
🗣I wish I could offer you some food to go with your tea, but I'm afraid we're cleaned out.
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14 января 2024 17:02

📔 quake like a leaf



📋Meaning
To tremble violently with fear or nervousness.


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🗣My brother is so strong and scary-looking that he leaves people quaking like a leaf when he threatens them.

🗣I was quaking like a leaf when I went up to deliver my speech.
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13 января 2024 18:38

📔 in the thick of things


📋Meaning
Very busy; in the middle of or preoccupied with something or several things.


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🗣Sorry I couldn't make it to your birthday lunch on Wednesday—I'm afraid I'm really in the thick of things at the moment.

🗣Even when you find yourself in the thick of things, try to take a moment each day and take a deep, calming breath.
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11 января 2024 19:54

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11 января 2024 08:18

📔 crack someone up




📋Meaning
  make someone suddenly laugh a lot / to suddenly laugh a lot



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🗣 My two year old cracks us up because he's so naughty and we try desperately not to laugh.

🗣 Your dad's dancing really cracks me up.  He's a big hip-hop fan I guess?
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10 января 2024 19:47

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09 января 2024 19:06

📔 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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08 января 2024 19:46

📔 brazen it out


📋Meaning
To face a difficult, uncertain, or intimidating situation with brave or impudent self-confidence.

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🗣I'm terrified to give this presentation, but I just have to brazen it out and hope for the best.

🗣Timmy brazened it out when his teacher scolded him for misbehaving.
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07 января 2024 19:13

📔 Potemkin village



📋Meaning
Something that is made to seem very grand, elaborate, or prosperous for the purposes of impressing others, but which in reality has no real worth or substance. Taken from a story about Russian minister Grigory Potemkin (1739–1791), who allegedly erected false, painted façades to mimic a thriving, successful village along the Dnieper River in Crimea to impress the visiting Empress Catherine II.


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🗣The tightly controlled totalitarian country is often accused of creating a Potemkin village each time it televises some event, a meager attempt to convince the outside world that its people are happy under the thumb of the dictatorship.
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06 января 2024 19:43

💠 hair-splittingly

✍🏾 With extremely minute, unimportant, or imperceptible differences or details. (Used before an adjective.)

I think it's clear to see that the defendant's work is only hair-splittingly distinct from that of my client.
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