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12 октября 2023 08:13
📔 When it rains, it pours
📋Meaning
Bad things occur in large numbers, but many big things happen all at once.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “First he was laid off, then his wife got into a car accident. When it rains, it pours.“
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11 октября 2023 10:45
📔 Chasing rainbows
📋Meaning
Following dreams, trying to do something that can’t be achieved.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “His paintings have neither style nor imagination, but he insists on being a professional painter. He’s always chasing rainbows.”
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10 октября 2023 07:51
📔 Rain or shine
📋Meaning
Used to indicate that something will happen no matter what. This is one of the rare idioms that’s also often used literally, for outdoor events that’ll take place whether it rains or not.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “I’ll see you at the airport, rain or shine.”
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09 октября 2023 11:24
📔 Under the sun
📋Meaning
Refers to everything on Earth, usually used as part of a superlative.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Gili Trawangan must be one of the most beautiful islands under the sun.”
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08 октября 2023 10:33
📔 Once in a blue moon
📋Meaning
Very rarely.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “He used to call his grandma once in a blue moon. Now that she has passed away, he regrets not making more of an effort to keep in touch.”
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07 октября 2023 10:38
📔 Every cloud has a silver lining
📋Meaning
There’s a good aspect to every bad situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Don’t worry about losing your job. It’ll be okay. Every cloud has a silver lining!“
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05 октября 2023 19:48
📔 weep (one's) heart out
📋Meaning
To weep copiously; to cry intensely and for a long time.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Lauren wept her heart out at the news of her father's sudden death.
🗣What did you say to upset your brother? He's been weeping his heart out upstairs for the last half hour!
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04 октября 2023 19:44
📔have a nodding acquaintance (with someone or something)
📋Meaning
To have a slight or precursory knowledge of someone or something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Jim asked me to help fix his computer for him, but I'm afraid I only have a nodding acquaintance with how his machine works.
🗣Ruth and I had only a nodding acquaintance before going to the party, but once we got talking, it was like we'd been friends our whole lives.
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03 октября 2023 04:55
📔on the fiddle
📋Meaning
Engaged in deceitful, fraudulent, or dishonest means of obtaining money.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My career will be over if anyone ever finds out I was on the fiddle during my time as the company treasurer.
🗣There are always politicians on the fiddle, looking for ways to use their positions of power to earn a bit more money.
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02 октября 2023 10:09
📔 have known better days
📋Meaning
To be or look particularly shabby, ill-kept, or in poor condition.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Well, this car has known better days, but it's been reliable for me since the day I bought it 20 years ago.
🗣The poor guy who runs the building is a sweet fellow, but he has certainly known better days by the looks of him.
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01 октября 2023 06:32
📔 pull an all-nighter
📋Meaning
To remain awake all night long, especially so as to study or to complete something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was a bit of a procrastinator in college, so I tended to pull a lot of all-nighters.
🗣Jeff pulled an all-nighter on Thursday to get his report finished for work by the deadline today, so I don't think he'll be coming out with us tonight.
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30 сентября 2023 09:16
💠rarer than hens' teeth
✍🏾Incredibly scarce or rare; extremely difficult or impossible to find.
Support for the president is rarer than hens' teeth in this part of the country.
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28 сентября 2023 18:09
📔 Lost at sea
📋Meaning
To be confused about something or to feel unsure about what to do.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “I am lost at sea with this new system at work. I just can’t understand it.”
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27 сентября 2023 20:21
📔 Sail close to the wind
📋Meaning
To act just within the limits of what’s legal or socially acceptable, to push boundaries.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “They fired their accountant because he sailed too close to the wind.”
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12 октября 2023 17:10
📔 take a bawling out
📋Meaning
To receive a very severe rebuke, chastisement, or scolding (from someone).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I sure took a bawling out from my parents after I smashed up their car.
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11 октября 2023 20:17
📔 be smashed to smithereens
📋Meaning
To be broken apart or otherwise destroyed into tiny, fragmentary pieces. "Smithereens," first appearing in English in 1829 as "smiddereens," is likely derived from the Irish word "smidirín" or "smidiríní," meaning "fragment."
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I wish I could still go visit our old family home, but it's already been smashed to smithereens by the demolition crew.
🗣The village was smashed to smithereens by the typhoon's gale-force winds.
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10 октября 2023 20:46
💠 hunt where the ducks are
✍🏾 To pursue or look for one's objectives, results, or goals in the place where one is most likely to find them.
If you're looking to expand your customer base, you need to identify who would benefit from your business the most and then hunt where the ducks are
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09 октября 2023 19:04
📔high muckety muck
📋slang An especially important, influential, and authoritative person, especially someone who is overbearingly or arrogantly so.
🗣We're just waiting for the high muckety muck to give us the green light before we get the project started.
🗣"All hail the high muckety muck," Jerry muttered under his breath as the dictator's motorcade rolled by.
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08 октября 2023 20:36
📔 close as the bark to the tree
📋Meaning
As connected as is possible. Often used to describe a particularly intimate relationship or friendship.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Jenna and Elise are as close as the bark to the tree—I rarely see one without the other!
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07 октября 2023 20:06
📔 pound sand
📋Meaning
To engage in pointless, menial efforts or labor. Used especially as an imperative to express disdain, contempt, or dismissal.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I can't believe Sam told his teacher to go pound sand. Where does that kid get such attitude?
🗣Charles, why don't you pound sand instead of coming around here hassling me about my business?
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05 октября 2023 08:46
📔 A rising tide lifts all boats
📋Meaning
When an economy is performing well, all of the people involved will benefit from it.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “When the economy showed the first signs of recovering, everyone started investing and spending more. A rising tide lifts all boats.“
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04 октября 2023 07:53
📔 Get into deep water
📋Meaning
To be in trouble. Very similar to the idiom in hot water that we discussed above.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “He got into deep water when he borrowed a lot of money from a loan shark.”
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02 октября 2023 18:32
📔 Pour oil on troubled waters
📋Meaning
To try to make people feel better and become friendly again after an argument.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “She hated seeing her two best friends arguing, so she got them together and poured oil on troubled waters.”
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01 октября 2023 20:02
📔 Make waves
📋Meaning
To cause trouble, to change things in a dramatic way.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “She likes to make waves with her creative marketing campaigns. They get a lot of attention from customers.”
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30 сентября 2023 19:46
📔 Go with the flow
📋Meaning
To relax and go along with whatever’s happening.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Quite often in life, good things happen when you don’t make plans. Just go with the flow and see what happens!”
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28 сентября 2023 09:58
📔 window-shop
📋Meaning
To visit stores, typically only looking in their windows, to see what is available without buying anything.
🤔For example ⬇️
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27 сентября 2023 10:46
📔 against the collar
📋Meaning
Difficult, exhausting, or problematic. The phrase originates from the collar on a horse's harness, which tightens on the horse's neck when it travels uphill. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was doing fine in the marathon, but it was a bit against the collar for the last couple miles.
🗣I don't think I have time to meet you today. Work has been a bit against the collar recently.
🗣against the collar recently.Getting this late-breaking story finished in time for tomorrow's newspaper was somewhat against the collar, but it's done now, thankfully.
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