📔 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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📔 you look a little peaked
📋Meaning
You look ill, especially as if you might vomit.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣You look a little peaked since you got off that roller coaster. Do you want some ginger ale to settle your stomach?
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📔 be not short of a penny (or two)
📋Meaning
To be exceptionally wealthy; to have no concerns regarding money.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣A: "I just heard Sarah just lost her job!" B: "Well, her husband's family isn't short of a penny, so I think they'll be just fine."
🗣I once dated a guy who, though he was never short of a penny or two, was the most miserly person I'd ever met. He wouldn't even tip when we went out to eat!
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📔 flip (one's) wig
📋Meaning
To react to something, good or bad, with strong emotion.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I had to talk to Mr. Myers about the botched report today, and boy, did he flip his wig.
🗣I figured Aunt June would be excited to hear I'm getting married, but she totally flipped her wig!
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📔 Carry (someone) off their feet
📋Meaning
To completely overwhelm someone with enthusiasm, ardor, or passion.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The strength of the senator's oration carried the entire crowd off their feet.
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📔(Go) tell it/that to Sweeney!
📋Meaning
dated A scornful or incredulous response to a story or statement that one does not believe or finds ridiculous.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Chester: "You know, my dad used to play basketball with the President when they were both kids." Dave: "Ah, go tell it to Sweeney, Chester! Why do you tell such fibs?"
A: "I bet you I could eat 20 hot dogs in less than half an hour!" B: "Tell that to Sweeney, pal!"A: "I bet you I could eat 20 hot dogs in less than half an hour!" B: "Tell that to Sweeney, pal!"
🗣Yeah, right, like you're related to that famous astronaut. Tell it to Sweeney.
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📔 cool customer
📋Meaning
Someone who remains even-tempered, especially in stressful situations.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Brad is such a cool customer. Nothing ever seems to bother him.
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📔 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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📔 fine print
📋Meaning
The details of a contract or other document that are important but easily overlooked (often due to very small size of the text.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 If you had read the fine print, we wouldn't be going to court over this, now would we?
🗣 Be sure to read the fine print before you sign any contracts!
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📔 ripen up
📋Meaning
To grow ripe; to become mature enough to harvest or pick.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Make sure you plant your tomatoes in a spot that gets plenty of sunshine, or else it will take a whole lot longer for them to ripen up.
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📔 drive (one's) pigs to market
📋Meaning
To snore.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I can't get any sleep with Will driving his pigs to market every night—I think it's time for him to see a doctor about his snoring.
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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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📔 catch the sun
📋Meaning
To get sunburned.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I caught the sun at the beach last weekend, and now my back hurts so much that I have to sleep on my side!
🗣I made sure to pack you some extra sunscreen so that you don't catch the sun on your trip.
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📔 not say boo to a goose
📋Meaning
To be particularly shy, diffident, or timid by nature. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My brother is a very sweet, warm-hearted man who can't say boo to a goose. How can you suspect that he committed this crime?
🗣The neighbour's daughter is just the cutest little thing, but she won't say boo to a goose.
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📔 not as black as (one) is painted
📋Meaning
Not as evil, malicious, or malignant as one is described or believed to be.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Everyone is afraid of the old hermit who lives on the edge of town, but after having a few conversations with him, he's not nearly as black as he's painted.
🗣The biker gang plays up its tough demeanor and hellish reputation, but they're really just a bunch of regular guys and not as black as they're painted.
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📔 As cold as stone
📋Meaning
Being very cold and unemotional.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “In the Victorian times, many women were told to suppress their feelings and, thus, appeared as cold as stone.”
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📔 Make waves
📋Meaning
To cause trouble, to change things in a dramatic way.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “She likes to make waves with her creative marketing campaigns. They get a lot of attention from customers.”
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📔 a drop in the bucket
📋Meaning
a very small or unimportant amount, especially when compared to something else.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 For years businesses have dumped toxic waste into the ocean thinking it was just a drop in the bucket but that behavior has destroyed many ecosystems.
🗣 I raked leaves all afternoon but I know it's just a drop in the bucket and the lawn will be covered again tomorrow.
🗣 "Two cans of beer at lunch?" "Yes. That's actually just a drop in the bucket of what I usually drink."
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📔 Barking up the wrong tree
📋Meaning
Doing something that won’t give you the results you want.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “If you think she’s going to lend you money, you’re barking up the wrong tree. She never lends anyone anything.”
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📔 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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📔 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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📔 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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📔 Out of the woods
📋Meaning
The situation is still difficult but it’s improved or gotten easier. The hardest part of something is over.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “The surgery went very well and he just needs to recover now, so he’s officially out of the woods.”
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📔 Get into deep water
📋Meaning
To be in trouble. Very similar to the idiom in hot water that we discussed above.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “He got into deep water when he borrowed a lot of money from a loan shark.”
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📔 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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📔A dead-end job
📋Meaning
a job that has no prospect and will mean that one does the same kind of ( low_grade) work for ever
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣She was worried she was stuck in a dead-end job.
🗣"Unless we boost opportunities and pay we risk losing a generation of young workers to dead-end jobs."
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📔 Barking up the wrong tree
📋Meaning
Doing something that won’t give you the results you want.
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📔 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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📔 living on the edge
📋Meaning
To have an adventurous or perilous lifestyle; to behave in a manner which creates risks for oneself.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Despite the apparent respectability, he was a man who liked to live on the edge.
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📔 Cut to the chase
📋Meaning
If you’re speaking to a group of people, like your employees, and say I’m going to cut to the chase, it means that there are a few things that need to be said but there’s very little time, so you’ll skip to the important parts so everyone understands.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Hi guys, as we don’t have much time here, so I’m going to cut to the chase. We’ve been having some major problems in the office lately.”
🗣 "cut to the chase—what is it you want us to do?"
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