📔 A piece of cake
📋Meaning
A piece of cake refers to a task or job that’s easy to complete or accomplish.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “I expected the English test to be difficult but it was a piece of cake.”
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📔 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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📔 sleep rough
📋Meaning
To sleep outside at night, usually because one has no home or shelter. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The government's aim is to have the number of people sleeping rough halved in five years' time.
🗣I slept rough for a couple of years after my house was repossessed. It's not something I would wish on anyone.
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📔 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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📔 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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📔on the hush-hush
📋Meaning
In a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge; being known only by a select few people.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I need to tell you some important news, but you have to keep it on the hush-hush, OK?
🗣Apparently it's on the hush-hush, but I just found out John and Tracey are getting married soon!
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📔 a sticky situation
📋Meaning
A particularly awkward, embarrassing, precarious, or difficult situation or circumstance. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I found myself in a bit of a sticky situation when the boss saw me kissing his daughter at the movies.
🗣I'll be in quite a sticky situation if I arrive at the train station and don't have enough money for the tickets!
🗣We have to fire the headmaster's son for sleeping on the job? Oh great, there's a sticky situation.
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📔measure the drapes
📋To begin planning or preparing to replace someone in a job or position before one has actually secured the role, especially during a political election.
🗣The senator has been criticized for measuring the drapes in the Oval Office with a month still to go before the votes will be tallied.
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📔 A bad apple
📋Meaning
Imagine a basket of apples with one rotten apple inside. This picture will help you remember that a bad apple is someone who creates problems or trouble, or is a bad influence on the other people in a group.
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📔 Buy a lemon
📋Meaning
To buy a lemon means to buy something (usually a motor vehicle) that doesn’t work well and is therefore worthless.
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🗣 “The car looked so new and shiny I had no way of knowing I was buying a lemon.”
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📔 Have a sweet tooth
📋Meaning
Do you like eating cakes, candy and other sweet-tasting food? If you do, then you can say you have a sweet tooth.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Yes, I definitely have a sweet tooth. I can never walk past a bakery and not stop to buy myself a slice of chocolate cake.”
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📔 A storm is brewing
📋Meaning
There will be trouble or emotional upset in the near future.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “She decided to go ahead with their wedding, even though all they’ve been doing lately is arguing. I can sense a storm is brewing.”
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📔 Calm before the storm
📋Meaning
An unusually quiet period before a period of upheaval (problems, chaos).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “The strange quietness in town made her feel peaceful. Little did she know, it was just the calm before the storm.”
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📔 Weather a storm
📋Meaning
To survive a dangerous event or effectively deal with a difficult situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Last year, they had some financial difficulties when her husband was fired. Together, they weathered the storm and figured out how to keep going.”
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📔 cross (one's) bows
📋Meaning
To annoy or irritate.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Boy, you are really crossing my bows today. Why can't you just do what I ask without arguing about it?
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📔 Compare apples and oranges
📋Meaning
Apples are very different from oranges both in looks and taste. It’s hard to compare two things that are so unlike each other. So then, to compare apples and oranges is to compare two very different things.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “I’m not sure which I enjoy more—pottery or dancing. It’s like comparing apples and oranges.”
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📔 Not one’s cup of tea
📋Meaning
If something is not your cup of tea, it’s an activity you have no interest in, don’t enjoy or don’t do well in.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Camping is really not my cup of tea so I’m going to visit my friend in New York instead.”
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📔 Eat like a bird
📋Meaning
How much does a bird eat? Not very much, right? So to eat like a bird is to eat very little.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Don’t trouble yourself cooking such a big meal. I eat like a bird.”
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📔 Eat like a horse
📋Meaning
Now, a horse is much bigger than a bird. So how much do you think a horse eats? That’s right, to eat like a horse is to eat a large amount of food.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “My mother has to cook a lot of food when my brother comes to visit. He eats like a horse.”
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📔 A smart cookie
📋Meaning
Here’s an easy one. A smart cookie is an intelligent person.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “It shouldn’t be hard too hard for a smart cookie like you to learn Spanish.”
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📔 Packed like sardines
📋Meaning
What do you see when you open up a can of sardines? Yes, the fish crammed inside the can. So packed like sardines describes a place or situation that’s very crowded with people (or animals)—for example, a concert hall or sports event.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Were you at the football game last night? The stadium was packed like sardines.”
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📔 be tied (up) in knots
📋Meaning
To be confused, anxious, worried, and/or upset (about something).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I've been tied up in knots trying to come up with a good topic for my term paper, but I just can't think of anything!
🗣James is tied in knots over how to break up with Danielle, but I think he needs to bite the bullet and just do it.
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📔money laundering
📋Meaning
The criminal act or practice of processing large amounts of money obtained through illegitimate or illegal means, often in small increments through banks or other legitimate businesses, so as to conceal its source or origins.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣One of the clubs downtown was shut down last week on charges of suspected money laundering for a local criminal enterprise.
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📔 salad years
📋Meaning
A carefree time of youthful innocence, ingenuousness, and inexperience. A variant of the more common term "salad days," which comes from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I thought that I had experienced true romantic love back in my salad years, before I graduated. Now, however, I think love is largely an elaborate delusion.
🗣Whenever I ask my grandfather the meaning of a word I hear on TV, he always laughs and says he'll tell me when I'm no longer in my salad years.
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📔 shed a tear
📋Meaning
To cry or weep, especially from grief; to grieve or mourn in general.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Everyone in the room was shedding tears by the end of the ceremony.
🗣Their relationship had soured so much over the years that John didn't shed a tear when he heard of his brother's death.
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📔 now (someone) has gone and done it
📋Meaning
Someone has just done something very grave, foolish, and/or irreparable.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"Now you've gone and done it! My mother's gonna tan our hides for breaking that!
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📔 ball the jack
📋Meaning
Speed up. Go fast. This phrase came from the American rail industry, in which a train was nicknamed a "jack," while "highball" meant to proceed.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣A: "Come on Tom, pick up the pace, ball the jack, let's move!" B: "Ugh, I can't run any faster this early in the morning!"
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