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18 февраля 2023 04:30
📔dig your heels in
📋Meaning
to refuse to change your plans or ideas, especially when someone is trying to persuade you to do so.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Even though the developer offered them more than their houses were worth, the owners dug their heels in and refused to sell up and make way for the office block.
🗣When their record company told the band to change their style and make more commercial music, the band dug their heels in and refused to change.
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17 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 Cut the mustard
📋Meaning
To meet acceptable standards.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Unless you raise the stair treads up, this project won’t cut the mustard.
🗣 "I didn't cut the mustard as a hockey player"
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15 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 Better late than never
📋Meaning
It is better to be late than to never arrive or never complete a task.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "it took them the majority of the campaign to come to that conclusion, but better late than never"
🗣 It's been a long time coming but better late than never.
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14 февраля 2023 14:32
😃What do you want?
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14 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 Beat around the bush
📋Meaning
To avoid the difficult part of the conversation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Quit beating around the bush.
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13 февраля 2023 06:39
🤑How much money do you want to earn?
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12 февраля 2023 16:31
📔(one's) other half
📋Meaning
One's spouse, romantic partner, or boyfriend/girlfriend.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'd love to come out to the bars with you after work, but I'd better check in with my other half to make sure we don't have any plans for this evening.
🗣The work retreat is meant to be for couples, so be sure to bring your other half!
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11 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 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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10 февраля 2023 17:30
📔 bare (one's) teeth
📋Meaning
To display an angry, violent, or threatening reaction to or against something or someone, as does a dog or wolf when threatened.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I will bare my teeth to anyone who tries to take away my land.
🗣We seemed to be getting along just fine, but she suddenly bared her teeth when I brought up religion.
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10 февраля 2023 03:30
📔 steady as she goes
📋Meaning
Describing an activity or situation that is progressing in a stable manner. This nautical phrase was originally used in reference to a ship that was sailing steadily. (Ships were traditionally referred to as female.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 A: "How's your new business coming along?" B: "Steady as she goes! We expect to break even the first year before we start making a profit."
🗣 In the midst of all this social upheaval, I hope our government can maintain a steady-as-she-goes approach.
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08 февраля 2023 04:09
📔 out of humour
📋Meaning
In an irritable, grouchy, or unhappy mood; not feeling well or in good spirits. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I think something is bugging John because he's been rather out of humour lately.
🗣After living in Gibraltar for so long, these awful London winters leave me feeling me out of humour.
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07 февраля 2023 03:42
📔 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
📋Meaning
proverb Compensation or retribution that is (or should be) of an equal amount or degree to the injury or offense that was originally dealt. The saying comes from various passages in the Bible, including in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I cannot be placated by paltry excuses of reparation! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—this I demand from all who have wronged me.
🗣Some countries have laws that punish crimes with an eye for an eye, most often that killing someone will result in one's death.
🗣The world would be a safer place if more people in power would discourage the practice of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
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06 февраля 2023 05:30
📔 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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17 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 blood in the water
📋Meaning
The exposure of a competitive weakness in an opponent that arouses increased competitive aggression in others. Likened to the literal presence of blood in water that causes aquatic predators (such as sharks) to seek out and attack prey.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣After their opponents' star striker left the match with an injury, the home team smelled blood in the water and brought on their attack with everything they had.
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15 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 big break
📋Meaning
A fortuitous moment, opportunity, or turn of events of great consequence, especially as relates to one's career.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣A fortuitous moment, opportunity, or turn of events of great consequence, especially as relates to one's career.
🗣I had a big break when a movie director saw me in an improv group and offered me an audition for his new film.
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14 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 beauty queen
📋Meaning
A woman who has won, or looks as if she could win, a beauty pageant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣When that beauty queen walked in, everyone's heads turned.
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14 февраля 2023 04:51
❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥 ❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥Happy Valentine's day ❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥❤️❤️🔥
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13 февраля 2023 16:30
📔 a bit of a stretch
📋Meaning
A mild exaggeration beyond the truth or what is likely the case.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'm not too fond of taxes either, but it's a bit of a stretch to claim they are the cause of all our problems.
🗣A: "The government is covering up all sorts of extraterrestrial activity." B: "Come on now, don't you think that's a bit of a stretch?"
🗣He still doesn't have the votes? Then I guess it was a bit of a stretch for him to say he'd get the bill passed this week.
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13 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 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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12 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 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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11 февраля 2023 04:30
📔 Add insult to injury (part of a sentence)
📋Meaning
To add another bad situation on top of an existing one.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 To add insult to injury, it started to rain after I locked my keys in my car.
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09 февраля 2023 20:26
📔 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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08 февраля 2023 18:37
📔 bad hair day
📋Meaning
a bad day in general; a day when many things seem to go wrong
a day when you can't style your hair well and this makes you feel unattractive
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Yesterday, my mom was having a bad hair day so I decided to show her my report card this evening.
🗣 Avoid the boss if you can. He's having yet another bad hair day and is taking his frustrations out on everyone.
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07 февраля 2023 17:51
📔a chip off the old block
📋Meaning
someone who resembles their parent in character or appearance.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"she smiled at Jimmy, a chip off the old block with his gray eyes and a bit of his dad's twinkle"
🗣When we saw the alcoholic's son enter the liquor store, we assumed that he was a chip of the old block.
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06 февраля 2023 20:58
📔 Go with the flow
📋Meaning
To relax and go along with whatever’s happening.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Quite often in life, good things happen when you don’t make plans. Just go with the flow and see what happens!”
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05 февраля 2023 20:56
📔 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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