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05 февраля 2023 12:42

📔 alarm bell


📋Meaning
A sudden warning or intimation of danger, risk, or ill fortune. (Often pluralized.)

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Alarm bells were going off in my head when I saw the panicked expression on her face.

🗣The new report set alarm bells ringing among the board members because it forecasts a large decrease in enrollment.

🗣A: "Her new boyfriend's anger management issues don't seem to be setting off an alarm bell for her." B: "Yikes, the situation is worse than I thought."
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04 февраля 2023 05:05

📔 against the collar


📋Meaning
Difficult, exhausting, or problematic. The phrase originates from the collar on a horse's harness, which tightens on the horse's neck when it travels uphill. Primarily heard in UK.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I was doing fine in the marathon, but it was a bit against the collar for the last couple miles.

🗣I don't think I have time to meet you today. Work has been a bit against the collar recently.

🗣against the collar recently.Getting this late-breaking story finished in time for tomorrow's newspaper was somewhat against the collar, but it's done now, thankfully.
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01 февраля 2023 20:34

📔 harrowing experience


📋Meaning
An experience that is frightening, chilling, or disturbing, either due to an implied or actual element of danger, or from being physically or emotionally unpleasant.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣With so much traffic, cycling in this city can be a harrowing experience.

🗣Walking through that graveyard last night was quite the harrowing experience.

🗣The film is very good, but it's a bit of a harrowing experience; it doesn't shy away from intense subject matter.
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01 февраля 2023 03:07

📔 Let the dust settle



📋Meaning
  To allow a situation to become calm or normal again after something exciting or unusual has happened.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “You just had big news yesterday, let the dust settle and don’t make any decisions yet.”
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31 января 2023 04:20

📔 safety in numbers




📋Meaning
being in a group offers security and protection




🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I prefer to go to parties with a group of friends because there’s safety in numbers.


🗣When protesting an authority, there's definitely more safety in numbers.
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30 января 2023 12:57

📔 To be loaded



📋Meaning
  To have a lot of money.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Billy paid his Harvard Law School tuition with cash. His family is loaded.”
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29 января 2023 09:50

📔 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.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 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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28 января 2023 12:37

📔 Stab someone in the back



📋Meaning
  to hurt someone who was close to us and trusted us by betraying them secretly and breaking their trust. We call the person who does this a back stabber.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Did you hear that Sarah stabbed Kate in the back last week?”

“No! I thought they were best friends, what did she do?”

“She told their boss that Kate wasn’t interested in a promotion at work and Sarah got it instead.”

“Wow, that’s the ultimate betrayal! No wonder they’re not friends anymore.”
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26 января 2023 20:56

📔 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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25 января 2023 18:56

📔 Sail close to the wind




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



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “They fired their accountant because he sailed too close to the wind.”
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24 января 2023 22:07

📔 picturesque



📋Meaning
  visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty style.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 the picturesque covered bridges of New England

🗣  the picturesque narrow street s of the old city.
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23 января 2023 21:11

📔 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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22 января 2023 21:37

📔 Rain or shine



📋Meaning
  Used to indicate that something will happen no matter what. This is one of the rare idioms that’s also often used literally, for outdoor events that’ll take place whether it rains or not.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “I’ll see you at the airport, rain or shine.”
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21 января 2023 22:30

📔 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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20 января 2023 20:13

📔 In hot water



📋Meaning
  When someone is in hot water, they’re in a bad situation or serious trouble.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “My brother is in hot water for failing all his college classes.”
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04 февраля 2023 20:35

📔 The grass is greener on the other side



📋Meaning   
other people always seem to be in a better situation than you, although they may not be



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Our bookkeeper always imagined that the grass is greener on the other side. She quit her job to pursue a legal education.

🗣 Bob always thinks the grass is greener elsewhere, which accounts for his constant job changes.
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02 февраля 2023 07:12

📔 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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01 февраля 2023 04:56

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31 января 2023 19:04

📔 a good voice to beg bacon


📋Meaning
Used to mock someone's voice as being strange, unpleasant, or inadequate (e.g., for singing). Bacon, being a dietary staple in older times, was often used as a metaphor for financial stability or wealth; having the voice of one who must "beg bacon," then, means having a harsh voice, like someone who is undernourished.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Did you hear the way that singer was screeching last night? I'm glad we didn't stay too long, he had a good voice to beg bacon.

🗣I love Alice, but, my goodness, the girl has a good voice to beg bacon! Please do not let her sign up for the talent show.

🗣I like to sing, but only in the shower—I know I have a good voice to beg bacon.
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30 января 2023 20:09

📔 talk a mile a minute



📋Meaning
To speak in a very quick or hurried manner; to talk very fast.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When the boss gets excited, she starts talking a mile a minute, and I can never follow everything she's trying to say!
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29 января 2023 17:59

📔 funny feeling


📋Meaning
An intuition or premonition about something; a sense of foreknowledge about a situation, condition, or set of circumstances.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I have a funny feeling that this meeting isn't going to end in our favor.

🗣 I have this funny feeling that I've met this person before.

🗣I'm worried about our relationship. I got this funny feeling when I was talking to her last night.
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28 января 2023 20:04

📔 a free bit of advice


📋Meaning
A suggestion, opinion, or piece of advice that was unrequested or unsolicited by the recipient.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Allow me to give you a free bit of advice, my friend: don't say something you'll end up regretting later.

🗣I know you're worried about your kids, but here's a free bit of advice—you can't protect them from every little thing.

🗣Hey, here's a free bit of advice for you during your internship—always be kind and polite. People remember if you treat them well.
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27 января 2023 17:50

📔 freak of nature


📋Meaning
Something or someone that is unusual, rare, or abnormal in some way; beyond or outside the natural world.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The goat they have at the circus sideshow is a real freak of nature, it was born with two heads!

🗣He can lift over 500 pounds in the gym, he's like some freak of nature.
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26 января 2023 04:24

📔 a cut below


📋Meaning
Of lower quality than or inferior to someone or something else, especially that of the expected norm.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This waiter is really a cut below what I would expect from this restaurant.

🗣Your essay was a cut below, honestly. That's why it didn't win the contest.

🗣I haven't been that impressed with any of the candidates for the sales position—they've just been a cut below.
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25 января 2023 04:19

📔 a cut above the rest


📋Meaning
Better in quality than most others.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This new restaurant is a cut above the rest.

🗣Trust me, Johannes is a cut above the rest. If you want the best legal advice money can buy, he's your man.

🗣An entrant's essay must be a cut above the rest for it to win our top prize.
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24 января 2023 10:55

📔 a cut above the rest


📋Meaning
Better in quality than most others.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This new restaurant is a cut above the rest.

🗣Trust me, Johannes is a cut above the rest. If you want the best legal advice money can buy, he's your man.

🗣An entrant's essay must be a cut above the rest for it to win our top prize.
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23 января 2023 14:19

📔 cushy job


📋Meaning
A job that is easy, stress-free, and/or very well paid.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Since I got this cushy job managing a toy store, I've gotten to sit around playing with toys all day.

🗣Since Sarah got that cushy job with the bank, she has been driving a sports car and is buying a second home!
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22 января 2023 11:56

📔 crushing blow


📋Meaning
A major defeat or setback that is devastating to the goals of a person, group, or organization.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The team's loss last Sunday was a crushing blow to their chances for a championship.

🗣Failing that test was a crushing blow to my hopes for an honors degree.
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21 января 2023 04:34

📔 slanging match



📋Meaning
A bitter argument or dispute in which each side hurls numerous insults, accusations, or verbal abuse at one another. Primarily heard in UK.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣At first, I thought we were just going through a rough patch in our relationship, but lately, it seems like every night Janet and I get into a slanging match with each other. It might be time to end things.
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20 января 2023 09:44

📔 case of the dropsy


📋Meaning
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).

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣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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