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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.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣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.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣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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26 марта 2023 17:30
📔 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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25 марта 2023 16:30
top-notch
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24 марта 2023 16:30
📔 pull your socks up
📋Meaning
make an effort to improve one's work, performance, or behaviour.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣He's going to have to pull his socks up if he wants to stay in the team.
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23 марта 2023 16:30
📔 go to waste
📋Meaning
•to not be used
•to squander or miss an opportunity
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 When the Native American Indians killed a buffalo absolutely nothing went to waste.
🗣Our new apartment has a small refrigerator so now we can't buy many groceries and nothing goes to waste.
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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 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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27 марта 2023 05:30
📔 dead asleep
📋Meaning
In a deep, immovable sleep.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was dead asleep after my 12-hour shift; I didn't even hear the neighbor's car alarm going off!
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26 марта 2023 05:31
📔 shaken up
📋Meaning
Greatly startled, shocked, or upset.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was very shaken up after the car accident. I couldn't even speak properly to the police for about an hour.
🗣I remained shaken up for most of the day after hearing about my grandfather's death.
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25 марта 2023 04:30
📔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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24 марта 2023 04:30
📔 romp home
📋Meaning
To deftly or easily win a race, contest, or competition. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣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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