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30 мая 2017 14:51

🔰warts and all

☑️Meaning: If you show something warts and all, you show it exactly as it is without trying to hide any of its faults or weaknesses.

✨For example:

🔹Are you sure you want to read the first draft? You'll see it warts and all, with all the mistakes and all the bad writing still there.

🔹People don't want to see an idealised version of his life. They want to know the real story, warts and all.

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20 мая 2017 06:33

Bend over backwards— try very hard to please someone

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12 мая 2017 18:33

📗lead the way

☑️Meaning: If you lead the way, you show others where to go or what to do.

💧For example:

🔹When it came to exploring new directions in popular music, the Beatles definitely led the way.

🔹We should ask Carlos to lead the way. He knows this area better than any of us.

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08 мая 2017 17:36

🔰a one-track mind

☑️Meaning: If someone has a one-track mind, they spend most of their time thinking about one subject.

✔️For example:

🔸Brian's had a one-track mind since he started his own company. All he thinks about now is business and making money.

🔸Mark's upset because Jenny said he's got a one-track mind and he's always thinking about sex.

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02 мая 2017 17:33

🔰bear the brunt

☑️Meaning: If you bear the brunt of something, you suffer the worst of its impact or its effects.

〽️For example:

🔹The driver bore the brunt of the crash because he was right at the front of the bus.

🔹The team's coach bore the brunt of the criticism because he'd selected the players who'd performed so badly.

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02 мая 2017 17:30

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🔰blow your own horn | blow your own trumpet

☑️Meaning: If you blow your own horn, or blow your own trumpet, you proudly boast about your own talents and successes.

〽️For example:

🔘I hate the way Barry always blows his own horn, and I get sick of hearing about all the amazing things he's done.

🔘Lorraine says that if you want to be successful in the fashion business, you really have to blow your own trumpet.

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26 апреля 2017 20:45

🔰plain sailing

☑️Meaning: If something is plain sailing, it's very easy to do and there are no problems to overcome.

💧For example:

♦️Golfer Tiger Woods hit a couple of bad shots early in his round, but it was plain sailing after that and he won the match easily.

♦️I answered the first few questions in the exam without any problems, and I knew it'd be plain sailing from then on.

🍭Origin: From sailing, in which plain sailing means to sail at good speed without facing any obstacles.

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24 апреля 2017 08:06

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20 апреля 2017 12:27

🔰get on in years
☑️ Someone who is getting on in years is growing old.
♦️My grandmother is getting on in years. She's no longer able to look after her home without help.


🔰knee-high to a grasshopper
☑️This term refers to a very young and therefore small child.
♦️Look how tall you are! Last time I saw you, you were knee-high to a grasshopper!

🔰silver surfer
☑️A silver surfer is an elderly person who uses the internet.
♦️After just a few questions my grandmother was ready to join the silver surfers.


🔰put years on
☑️If an event or difficult situation puts years on someone, it makes them look or feel much older.
♦️I hardly recognized Mr. Brown. His illness has put years on him.

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16 апреля 2017 13:30

❇️just shy of

⭕️INFORMAL
💢Meaning: You can say something is just shy of an amount if it's just short of that amount.

📌For example:

▪️Luckily our boxer's weight is just shy of 60 kilos. If he was over 60 kilos, he couldn't fight.

▪️We've counted the bricks and there are just shy of a thousand.

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16 апреля 2017 13:20

❇️join the ranks of

☑️Meaning: If someone joins the ranks of a group or class of people, they become part of that group.

📌For example:

🔹Because of the economic slowdown, more and more people are losing their jobs and joining the ranks of the unemployed.

🔹In a few years our country should be able to join the ranks of the world's most developed nations.

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16 апреля 2017 13:13

❇️just in case

☑️Meaning: You can say "just in case" when describing a possible future problem and a precaution that has been, or should be, taken against it.

📌For example:

▪️I'm taking an umbrella, just in case it rains.

▪️You probably won't need to go to a hospital in Europe, but you should get some health insurance anyway, just in case.

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30 мая 2017 14:48

📗a wake-up call

☑️Meaning: An event acts as a wake-up call if it makes people more aware of a danger.

✨For example:

🔹I slipped over on the wet floor in my bathroom. I didn't hurt myself badly, but it was a wake-up call and I went out and bought some non-slip mats to stick on the floor.

🔹Robert had a pain in the chest, and it was a wake-up call for him. Now he's eating much healthier food and he's exercising more.

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20 мая 2017 06:38

10 ROYAL IDIOMS

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20 мая 2017 06:27

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12 мая 2017 18:18

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📗a law unto themselves

☑️Meaning: If somebody is a law unto themselves, they do things their own way and follow their own ideas about how to live instead of following what others do.

📍For example:

🔹Our boy Billy is a law unto himself. Of course he sometimes makes mistakes and gets into trouble, but we're proud of him because he doesn't just follow the herd.

🔹Our boss does things a bit differently to most other managers, so it's no surprise that some people say he's a law unto himself.

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08 мая 2017 17:35

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🔰over the top

☑️Meaning: You can say something is over the top if you think it's too extreme or it's more than a situation needs or deserves.

✔️For example:

▪️I know you love your daughter, Bill, but don't you think giving her a Ferrari for her birthday was a bit over the top?

▪️After he'd calmed down, Brad admitted that punching the photographer and smashing his camera was a little over the top.

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02 мая 2017 17:31

🔰pull out all the stops

☑️Meaning: If you pull out all the stops, you do everything you can to make sure something is successful.

〽️For example:

🔹They pulled out all the stops for the launch of their new range of perfumes, and even paid movie stars to come along.

🔹The Chinese government pulled out all the stops in their efforts to make the Beijing Olympics the best Olympic Games ever.

✔️Origin: Metaphorical, and related to the fact that the volume and timbre of a traditional pipe organ can be controlled in part by pulling out small knobs called "stops". If an organist "pulled out all the stops" on the organ, it would create a very big sound when played.

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26 апреля 2017 20:46

🔰put the brakes on

✔️Meaning: If you put the brakes on something, you stop it or slow it down.

💧For example:

🔸Many companies are putting the brakes on new investment until the economy improves.

🔸The government has to put the brakes on the water treatment project until the corruption enquiry is over.

🔘Origin: This metaphorical idiom is based on the fact that if you're driving a car and you "put the brakes on", the car slows down and stops.

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24 апреля 2017 08:13

10 Travel_inspired Idioms
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24 апреля 2017 08:02

Idioms telling people to hurry up

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✅Age Idioms

🔰long in the tooth
✅A person who is long in the tooth is a bit too old to do something.
♦️She's a bit long in the tooth for a cabaret dancer, isn't she?


🔰mutton dressed as lamb
☑️This expression refers to a middle-aged woman who tries to look younger by dressing in clothes designed for younger people.
♦️The style doesn't suit her - it has a mutton-dressed-as-lamb effect on her!


🔰no spring chicken
☑️To say that someone is no spring chicken means that they are quite old or well past their youth.
♦️How old is the owner? I don't know but she's no spring chicken!

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16 апреля 2017 13:23

❇️joined at the hip

☑️Meaning: If two people or things are joined at the hip, they're so closely linked as to be almost inseparable.

📌For example:

♦️Kim and Meg have been joined at the hip since meeting in high school. They're more like soulmates than friends.

♦️The two clubs were so closely tied after sharing the same ground and the same staff for so long that they were practically joined at the hip.

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16 апреля 2017 13:15

❇️jog your memory

☑️Meaning: If something jogs your memory, it helps you to remember something.

📌For example:

🔸The song really jogged my memory and I could clearly picture the scene thirty years ago when my friends and I first heard it.

🔸The police had a sketch of the suspect drawn and showed it to people in the area in the hope of jogging their memories.

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14 апреля 2017 12:29

📕dig one's own grave

☑️Meaning: If you dig your own grave, you do something unwise that will result in your own failure or downfall in the future.

▶️For example:

🔹Anyone who eats too much and doesn't exercise is digging their own grave.

🔹Jim lost his job, but he dug his own grave by being late all the time.

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