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10 декабря 2023 08:04
📔 up for grabs
📋Meaning
possible for anyone to have
available and ready for anyone to take
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Apple just announced a contest and a new MacBook is up for grabs.
🗣 There are some gently-used ski jackets up for grabs in the staff lounge if anyone is interested.
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09 декабря 2023 09:16
📔 wait tables
📋Meaning
to serve customers food and beverages in a restaurant or cafe
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I waited tables for five years to pay expenses while I was in college.
🗣 Waiting tables is a popular job for students and artists.
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07 декабря 2023 17:33
📔 spit (out) the dummy
📋Meaning
To have a childish overreaction or angry outburst to a negative situation or outcome; to act in a bad-tempered manner, likened to a temper tantrum of a child. "Dummy" here refers to a plastic teat used to soothe teething infants (also called a "pacifier" in the U.S. or a "soother" elsewhere), which they may spit when in the middle of a tantrum. Primarily heard in Australia.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣John spat the dummy when I told him I'd sold his old comic book collection.
🗣Don't go spitting out the dummy just because Cheryl got the promotion instead of you.
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06 декабря 2023 18:48
📔 go to wrack and ruin
📋Meaning
cliché To fall into severe or total decay, degradation, or ruination, as from disuse or lack of upkeep. ("Wrack," a now-archaic word meaning wreckage or destruction, is also often spelled "rack.")
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣It greatly pains me that my grandfather's estate has been left to go to wrack and ruin. If only we'd been able to afford for someone to look after it all these years.
🗣The neighbor's property has really gone to wrack and ruin lately. I'm thinking about filing a complaint with the neighborhood association!
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05 декабря 2023 17:56
📔 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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04 декабря 2023 17:37
📔on the upswing
📋Showing or experiencing a noticeable or conspicuous increase, improvement, or expansion.
🗣The last few years were hard on our company, but we're finally starting to get back on the upswing.
🗣The small country has been one of the few economies in the region to be on the upswing since the recession.
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03 декабря 2023 17:12
📔 run a temperature
📋Meaning
To have an abnormally high body temperature (a fever), which is indicative of or caused by illness.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Dan: "How's Pete feeling?" Marshall: "Well, he ran a temperature last night, but he seemed a lot better this morning after some rest."
🗣I think I've started running a temperature. Maybe I should go lie down.
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02 декабря 2023 19:12
📔 lap up
📋Meaning
To ingest something, usually a liquid, by licking. A noun or pronoun can be used between "lap" and "up."
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Those kittens must have been hungry—they've already lapped up all the milk in the saucer.
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29 ноября 2023 17:35
📔 talk twenty to the dozen
📋Meaning
To talk (to someone) very rapidly, hurriedly, and/or energetically.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My aunt can get talking twenty to the dozen if you get her on a topic she's passionate about.
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28 ноября 2023 18:37
📔 within arm's reach
📋Meaning
Close enough to touch, either literally or hypothetically. Easily attainable.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Can you pass me that book over there? It's within arm's reach of you.
🗣Once I found out I had an A in Chemistry, I knew that 4.0 GPA was within arm's reach.
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27 ноября 2023 15:28
📔 be in pursuit
📋Meaning
Following or chasing someone or something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The burglar got away, but I called the police, and now they're in pursuit.
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26 ноября 2023 19:20
📔 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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25 ноября 2023 18:35
📔 the terrible twos
📋Meaning
A developmental stage of children, generally at or around the age of two, marked by increased rebelliousness and frequent tantrums.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Becca's been having really bad temper tantrums lately and just keeps saying "no" to everything we say to her. I guess she's going into the terrible twos.
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09 декабря 2023 19:00
📔 brace of shakes
📋Meaning
Instantly, quickly, or in an extremely short amount of time, as of a task or event. "Brace," taken from the old French for the arms' breadth from hand to hand, means twice; the phrase as a whole refers either to an old nautical term, meaning the time it takes the sail to shake twice as it takes up the wind, or else the short time it takes to shake a dice-box twice. Often used in the phrase "in a brace of shakes."
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'll have that ready for you in a brace of shakes.
🗣We'll be there in a brace of shakes.
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07 декабря 2023 07:53
📔 squirrel away
📋Meaning
To hide, save or put things away to use in the future.
To put in a safe or secret place for future use.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 She squirreled away money each month to buy a new car.
🗣 If you're just squirreling away various English learning materials instead of using them, you'll never improve your English.
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06 декабря 2023 10:36
📔 wear the pants
📋Meaning
to be the person who makes all of the decisions or is the dominant partner in a relationship
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My grandma was a tiny little lady but she definitely wore the pants in her marriage.
🗣 Everyone thinks the director's so tough but his secretary wears the pants in their work relationship.
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05 декабря 2023 08:33
📔 tighten one's belt
📋Meaning
to spend less than usual in order to save money.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I have a feeling my son will be tightening his belt this semester since we decided to give him a strict allowance rather then sending him money every time he asked.
🗣 We had to tighten our belts when my husband lost his job.
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04 декабря 2023 08:05
📔 sweater up
📋Meaning
to put on a sweater in order to stay warm in cold weather
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I really love to sweater up in the winter. I can't wait to go shopping at LL Bean for a few new sweaters.
🗣 My brother took a really cute picture of our kids sweatered up and playing in the leaves. I think I'll use that one for our Christmas cards this year.
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03 декабря 2023 09:18
📔 little slice of heaven
📋Meaning
Something or someone that a person loves so much that they have the feeling they can't live without it.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Listening to her playing the piano is a slice of heaven.
🗣 Staying in on a cold winter night and watching TV is a slice of heaven for me.
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02 декабря 2023 08:00
📔 hungry eye
📋Meaning
experiencing pain, weakness, or nausea through lack of food.
A glare that a man or woman gives to someone of the opposite sex, characterized by extreme sexual lust and desire.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 She stared at me with hungry eyes.
🗣 That creepy man over there looks like he has the hungry eye for that hot lady at the bar.
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30 ноября 2023 09:50
📔 jam session
📋Meaning
an often impromptu performance by a group especially of jazz musicians that is characterized by improvisation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 The musical siblings then invite Lisa over to Billie’s studio for a special jam session.
🗣 Playing some favorites by The Allman Brothers Band during a jam session led to the birth of tribute group Midnight Rider.
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29 ноября 2023 09:42
📔 fork in the road
📋Meaning
Literally, the point at which one road splits or separates off into other roads.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 There's a fork in the road up ahead—which way should I go?
🗣 OK, keep going straight until you reach the fork in the road, then turn right.
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28 ноября 2023 09:30
📔 hit the books
📋Meaning
this is a commonly used expression among students, especially American college students who have a lot of studying to do. It simply means “to study,” and is a way of telling your friends that you’re going to study.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣“Sorry but I can’t watch the game with you tonight, I have to hit the books. I have a huge exam next week!”
🗣 “Danny was in danger of failing, so before his last math test he left the show early to go home and hit the books.”
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27 ноября 2023 12:03
📔 Twist someone’s arm
📋Meaning
If your arm has been twisted it means that someone has done a great job of convincing you to do something you might not have wanted to to do.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Jake, you should really come to the party tonight!”
“You know I can’t, I have to hit the books (study).”
“C’mon, you have to come! It’s going to be so much fun and there are going to be lots of girls there. Please come?”
“Pretty girls? Oh all right, you’ve twisted my arm, I’ll come!”
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26 ноября 2023 09:55
📔 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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25 ноября 2023 08:56
📔 Lose your touch
📋Meaning
to lose your touch actually means that you lose an ability or talent you once had when dealing with things, people or situations.
We use this when you’re usually good at a certain skill or talent, but then things start to go wrong.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “I don’t understand why none of the girls here want to speak to me.”
“It looks like you’ve lost your touch with the ladies.”
“Oh no, they used to love me, what happened?”
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23 ноября 2023 19:44
📔 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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