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19 сентября 2023 07:53

📔 Break the ice



📋Meaning
  To attempt to become friends with someone.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “He made a weather joke to break the ice.”
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18 сентября 2023 08:28

📔 Sell ice to Eskimos



📋Meaning
  To be able to sell anything to anyone; to persuade people to go against their best interests or to accept something unnecessary or preposterous.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “He’s a gifted salesman, he could sell ice to Eskimos."
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17 сентября 2023 09:11

📔 Let the dust settle



📋Meaning
  To allow a situation to become calm or normal again after something exciting or unusual has happened.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “You just had big news yesterday, let the dust settle and don’t make any decisions yet.”
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16 сентября 2023 09:44

📔 Clear as mud



📋Meaning
  Not clear at all, not easy to understand.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “He’s a great scientist, but I find his explanation of bacteria and microbes as clear as mud.”
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14 сентября 2023 09:18

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13 сентября 2023 19:32

📔 have known better days


📋Meaning
To be or look particularly shabby, ill-kept, or in poor condition.


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12 сентября 2023 19:23

📔receive (one's) just deserts

📋To receive that which one deserves, especially a punishment or unfavorable outcome. (Note: The phrase is often misspelled as "just desserts," due to the pronunciation of "deserts" and "desserts" being the same in this context.)

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11 сентября 2023 20:29

📔 Potemkin village



📋Meaning
Something that is made to seem very grand, elaborate, or prosperous for the purposes of impressing others, but which in reality has no real worth or substance. Taken from a story about Russian minister Grigory Potemkin (1739–1791), who allegedly erected false, painted façades to mimic a thriving, successful village along the Dnieper River in Crimea to impress the visiting Empress Catherine II.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The tightly controlled totalitarian country is often accused of creating a Potemkin village each time it televises some event, a meager attempt to convince the outside world that its people are happy under the thumb of the dictatorship.
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10 сентября 2023 20:08

📔knock (one's) head against a/the wall

📋To attempt continuously and fruitlessly to accomplish some task or achieve some goal that is or seems ultimately hopeless.

🗣Some people are never going to agree with you on this, so it's no use knocking your head against a wall trying to convince everyone.
🗣I feel like I've been knocking my head against the wall trying to understand this math equation.
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09 сентября 2023 18:24

📔 out there

📋Meaning
Somewhat unusual, unconventional, crazy, or eccentric. Sometimes hyphenated.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Our manager is always coming up with some out-there ideas on how to improve productivity.

🗣My uncle Jerry is a little out there, but he's a really sweet guy.
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07 сентября 2023 17:50

📔need (something) (about) as much as (one) needs a hole in the head

📋To have absolutely no need or use for something.

🗣I'm perfectly happy having a cell phone that just makes phone calls—I need a fancy new smartphone about as much as I need a hole in the head.
🗣We have enough problems with the business as it is, so we need an audit as much as we need a hole in the head.
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07 сентября 2023 08:34

📔 go through the roof



📋Meaning
  to become very angry or upset


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 When they realized he'd lied to them, his parents went through the roof.
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05 сентября 2023 19:04

📔 sitting duck



📋Meaning
a person or thing with no protection against an attack or other source of danger.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Nancy knew she'd be a sitting duck when she raised the trap door. 

🗣The senator was a sitting duck because of his unpopular position on school reform. 
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04 сентября 2023 20:13

📔 Storm in a teacup (UK idiom)



📋Meaning
   A small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 The whole controversy turned out to be a storm in a teacup.
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03 сентября 2023 17:55

📔 Sitting on the fence



📋Meaning
  a person's lack of decisiveness, neutrality or hesitance to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition, or inability to decide due to lack of courage. 



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18 сентября 2023 18:30

📔lap of the gods

📋A state beyond possible human control, intervention, or responsibility; a state or condition that is or will be decided by nature or fate. Usually used in the phrase "in the lap of the gods."

🗣I'm afraid we've done all we can to treat your father's heart attack. His recovery is in the lap of the gods, now.
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17 сентября 2023 19:28

💠collect dust

✍🏾To be in a state of disuse for a prolonged period of time.
Why do you want another video game console? You already have three collecting dust under the television!
My father has lots of old trinkets and memorabilia collecting dust in the attic.
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16 сентября 2023 18:27

📔live and kicking

📋Alive, healthy, and alert. (A truncated version of "alive and kicking.")

🗣Sam: "How are you feeling, John? I heard you were quite sick recently." John: "I'm still live and kicking!"
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14 сентября 2023 20:13

📔 pester (someone) for (something)


📋Meaning
To continually annoy someone with requests for something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I wish you would stop pestering me for a new bicycle; your birthday will be here soon enough!
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14 сентября 2023 09:09

📔 As cold as stone



📋Meaning
  Being very cold and unemotional.



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13 сентября 2023 09:00

📔 Between a rock and a hard place



📋Meaning
  In difficulty, faced with a choice between two unsatisfactory options.


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12 сентября 2023 07:48

📔 Nip something in the bud



📋Meaning
  To stop a bad situation from becoming worse by taking action at an early stage of its development.


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🗣 “When the kid shows the first signs of misbehaving, you should nip that bad behavior in the bud.”
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11 сентября 2023 12:11

📔 Barking up the wrong tree



📋Meaning
  Doing something that won’t give you the results you want.



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10 сентября 2023 07:37

📔 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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09 сентября 2023 09:00

📔 a heart of gold



📋Meaning
  a kind and generous disposition


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 A woman with a heart of gold gives us lodging for the night.  
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06 сентября 2023 19:01

📔 wide berth


📋Meaning
A good distance (between things, people, etc.). Originally referred to ships.


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05 сентября 2023 07:51

📔 be not short of a penny (or two)



📋Meaning
To be exceptionally wealthy; to have no concerns regarding money.


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04 сентября 2023 08:07

📔on the fiddle


📋Meaning
Engaged in deceitful, fraudulent, or dishonest means of obtaining money.


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03 сентября 2023 07:43

📔 be tipping (it) down


📋Meaning
To be raining very heavily. Primarily heard in UK.


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🗣We have a football match scheduled for tomorrow, but if it keeps tipping down like it is today, I'm sure that it will be cancelled.

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