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10 апреля 2023 05:30

📔get wise to (someone or something)

📋To become fully aware or cognizant of someone or something, especially if he, she, or it is suspicious, illegal, or malicious in nature or intention.

🗣We'd better watch our step—I think the police are getting wise to us!
🗣I hope my brother doesn't get wise to my scheme to take over the company.
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09 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 one-up (someone)

📋Meaning
To make a point of outdoing, outperforming, outclassing, etc., someone.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I hate telling stories around Jack because he always tries to one-up you with some fabulous anecdote of his own.
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08 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 pearly whites

📋Meaning
A person's set of teeth.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Be sure to brush your pearly whites twice a day, or you might end up getting a cavity!
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07 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 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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06 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 lay hold of (someone or something)



📋Meaning
To grasp or grip someone or something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Lay hold of that end of the sheet and pull it straight.

🗣I tried to lay hold of her before she fell off the step, but it happened too fast.
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05 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 It's not rocket science


📋Meaning
It is easy to understand or is not difficult to do/understand


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My coach always said, "Basketball is not rocket science. It's about putting the ball in the basket."
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04 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 call it a day


📋Meaning
decide or agree to stop doing something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"after three marriages, many men would have been more than ready to call it a day"
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03 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 A dime a dozen


📋Meaning
  very common and of no particular value.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"experts in this field are a dime a dozen"
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02 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 Go back to the drawing board


📋Meaning
  Start over


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The current system just isn’t working – we need to go back to the drawing board and start afresh.
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01 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 Pull yourself together


📋Meaning
  recover control of one's emotions./ Calm down.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"you've got to pull yourself together and find a job"
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31 марта 2023 17:30

📔 Give someone the benefit of the doubt


📋Meaning
  Trust what someone says


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I didn't know whether his story was true or not, but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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30 марта 2023 17:30

📔 walking on eggshells (eggs)



📋Meaning
to be extremely careful around someone in order not to upset them



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Whenever my mother-in-law visits I'm walking on eggshells in my own home.

🗣We've all been walking on eggshells around my father since he lost his job.

🗣Everyone is walking on eggshells at my firm because the owner is visiting our office this week.
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29 марта 2023 18:37

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29 марта 2023 05:30

📔 with reckless abandon



📋Meaning
With rash, unrestrained impulsiveness, enthusiasm, or zeal.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Ever since my brother got that car for his birthday, he's been motoring around at night with reckless abandon.

🗣The insurgents set upon the town and began firing their weapons with reckless abandon.
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28 марта 2023 05:30

📔be on (one's) best behavior

📋Meaning
To be very polite or exercise exceptionally good manners. Primarily heard in US.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Now, you kids must be on your best behavior for your Auntie this weekend!Good morning, class.

🗣I hope everyone was on their best behavior for the substitute teacher yesterday.
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09 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 Wrap your head around something


📋Meaning
Understand something complicated


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I just couldn't wrap my head around what had happened.
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08 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 ants in your pants




📋Meaning
to be so excited, nervous or anxious about something that it's hard to be still and calm.


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This idiom describes a kind of excitement that can be either positive (excited about something) or more negative (anxious or worried about something).


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🗣Every time we take our children to church they jump around like they've got ants in their pants and I constantly have to ask them to sit down.  

🗣I've got ants in my pants because I have to give a presentation at work tomorrow.      
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07 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 the last straw


📋Meaning
a further difficulty or annoyance, typically minor in itself but coming on top of a series of difficulties, that makes a situation unbearable.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"his affair was the last straw"
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06 апреля 2023 17:30

📔 take after someone




📋Meaning
  to resemble, look like or have the same qualities as a relative



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🗣 My son takes after his grandfather with his musical talent.

🗣  It’s strange but I don’t really take after anyone in my family—everyone is short and has dark hair while I’m tall with blonde hair and green eyes.
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05 апреля 2023 22:21

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05 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 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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04 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 scream (one's) head off



📋Meaning
To scream or yell very loudly and lengthily.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Suzy screamed her head off when I told her she couldn't have an ice cream cone.

🗣The stadium was packed with fans screaming their heads off for the popular band.

🗣Don't bother listening to the crazies who stand on street corners and scream their heads off at passersby.
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03 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 at top speed


📋Meaning
As fast as something or someone can go.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Once Tom caught the ball, he took off at top speed toward the end zone.

🗣I started feeling nauseous on the way home because Kelly was driving at top speed on a windy highway.
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02 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 written all over (one's) face


📋Meaning
Evident by one's facial expression. Said of one's emotions or inner thoughts.


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🗣Jenny said she wasn't scared before we went into the haunted house, but terror was written all over her face.

🗣John said nothing, but his response was written all over his face.
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01 апреля 2023 05:30

📔 the end of (one's) rope


📋Meaning
A point of utter exhaustion or exasperation; a point or state at which one has no more patience, endurance, or energy left.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Joshua started throwing a tantrum this afternoon, and with all the other things I have to get done, I've just reached the end of my rope!

🗣Daniel's been at the end of his rope for weeks now—he has seriously got to get a different job!
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31 марта 2023 05:30

📔 quake like a leaf



📋Meaning
To tremble violently with fear or nervousness.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣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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30 марта 2023 05:31

📔 go to the mattresses


📋Meaning
To enter into or prepare for a lengthy war, battle, or conflict; to adopt a combative or warlike position.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣While Republicans have shown some flexibility over other contentious issues, it looks as though they're ready to go to the mattresses over the issue of gun control.

🗣We'll go to the mattresses if that's what it takes to defend ourselves!
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29 марта 2023 17:30

📔 A blessing in disguise


📋Meaning
  an apparent misfortune that eventually has good results.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"being omitted from the World Cup squad was a blessing in disguise"
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28 марта 2023 17:30

📔 knock one's socks off


📋Meaning
  to impress someone


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This song will knock your socks off.
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27 марта 2023 17:30

📔 be the butt of someone's jokes


📋Meaning
  to be a person who is joked about or laughed at


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣He was sick of being the butt of their jokes.

🗣No one wants to be the butt of a joke.
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