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24 марта 2024 17:45
📔bluff (one's) way
📋Meaning
To achieve or accomplish something through deceit or by making a false display. (Usually followed by "into," "out of," or "through.")
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣We tried to bluff our way into the party, but we were immediately recognized as freshmen and told to leave.
🗣My brother is a good liar, but even he couldn't bluff his way out of that speeding ticket.
🗣I managed to bluff my way through the presentation with a lot of vague ideas and corporate buzz words.
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23 марта 2024 09:27
📔the tip of the iceberg
📋Meaning
Only a small, often unrepresentative portion of something much larger or more complex that cannot yet be seen or understood.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣If congress doesn't vote to extend the debt limit, a government shutdown will only be the tip of the iceberg.
🗣The flooding is bad, but we're dealing with just the tip of the iceberg—a huge spate of environmental disasters are on the horizon because of climate change.
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21 марта 2024 22:07
📔 a good voice to beg bacon
📋Meaning
Used to mock someone's voice as being strange, unpleasant, or inadequate (e.g., for singing). Bacon, being a dietary staple in older times, was often used as a metaphor for financial stability or wealth; having the voice of one who must "beg bacon," then, means having a harsh voice, like someone who is undernourished.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Did you hear the way that singer was screeching last night? I'm glad we didn't stay too long, he had a good voice to beg bacon.
🗣I love Alice, but, my goodness, the girl has a good voice to beg bacon! Please do not let her sign up for the talent show.
🗣I like to sing, but only in the shower—I know I have a good voice to beg bacon.
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20 марта 2024 09:38
📔 harrowing experience
📋Meaning
An experience that is frightening, chilling, or disturbing, either due to an implied or actual element of danger, or from being physically or emotionally unpleasant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣With so much traffic, cycling in this city can be a harrowing experience.
🗣Walking through that graveyard last night was quite the harrowing experience.
🗣The film is very good, but it's a bit of a harrowing experience; it doesn't shy away from intense subject matter.
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19 марта 2024 10:19
📔 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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17 марта 2024 22:42
📔 alarm bell
📋Meaning
A sudden warning or intimation of danger, risk, or ill fortune. (Often pluralized.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Alarm bells were going off in my head when I saw the panicked expression on her face.
🗣The new report set alarm bells ringing among the board members because it forecasts a large decrease in enrollment.
🗣A: "Her new boyfriend's anger management issues don't seem to be setting off an alarm bell for her." B: "Yikes, the situation is worse than I thought."
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16 марта 2024 18:21
📔 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
📋Meaning
proverb Compensation or retribution that is (or should be) of an equal amount or degree to the injury or offense that was originally dealt. The saying comes from various passages in the Bible, including in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I cannot be placated by paltry excuses of reparation! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—this I demand from all who have wronged me.
🗣Some countries have laws that punish crimes with an eye for an eye, most often that killing someone will result in one's death.
🗣The world would be a safer place if more people in power would discourage the practice of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
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14 марта 2024 11:50
📔 behind the eight ball
📋Meaning
In a challenging situation; at a disadvantage. An "eight ball" is one of the numbered balls used in the game of pool, and the last one supposed to be hit into a pocket. If the eight ball is accidentally hit into a pocket prematurely, the player will lose, and it therefore needs to be avoided.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣If we don't leave early tomorrow, we'll be behind the eight ball, and I doubt we'll reach the cabin by dusk.
🗣Because I got the flu, I'm behind the eight ball with my Christmas shopping.
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12 марта 2024 21:22
📔 ride the rail(s)
📋Meaning
To travel on a vehicle mounted on rails (especially a train or streetcar).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I know it takes a lot longer than flying, but I love riding the rail from Portland to Vancouver.
🗣People often romanticize riding the rails across the country as hobos did during the Great Depression, but I doubt many would actually find much pleasure in it.
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11 марта 2024 21:03
📔 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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10 марта 2024 20:33
📔nose into (something)
📋Meaning
To investigate something; to try to find information about something, especially private, secret, or sensitive matters.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The last thing we need right now are tax auditors nosing into our accounts.
🗣You really need to stop nosing into other people's affairs, or you're going to start losing friends.
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09 марта 2024 07:41
📔 Wear your heart on your sleeve
📋Meaning
To show your feelings openly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My boyfriend's never been too shy to wear his heart on his sleeve but I'm the opposite.
🗣That's the last time I'm going to wear my heart on my sleeve. As soon as I show my feelings guys act arrogant with me.
🗣My father was raised to be a tough guy so he could never wear his heart on his sleeve.
🗣Sometimes in business it’s not great to wear your heart on your sleeve.
🗣You’d never be good a poker. You always wear your heart on your sleeve.
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07 марта 2024 20:25
📔on (someone's) wrong side
📋Meaning
Displeasing to someone; provoking someone's anger, contempt, or dismissal.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The best way to get through this class is to say nothing unless called upon, and to make sure you don't get on the teacher's wrong side!
🗣I thought it was all in good fun, but I might have gotten on her wrong side with my sarcastic comments.
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06 марта 2024 20:49
📔 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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24 марта 2024 10:35
📔 funny feeling
📋Meaning
An intuition or premonition about something; a sense of foreknowledge about a situation, condition, or set of circumstances.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I have a funny feeling that this meeting isn't going to end in our favor.
🗣 I have this funny feeling that I've met this person before.
🗣I'm worried about our relationship. I got this funny feeling when I was talking to her last night.
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21 марта 2024 03:06
📔run out of steam
📋Meaning
To lose one's energy, motivation, or enthusiasm to continue doing something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣After spending hours working on this project, I'm running out of steam—can we take a break?
🗣I decided to paint the bathroom ceiling but ran out of steam halfway through.
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19 марта 2024 19:45
📔at stake
📋Meaning
If something is at stake, it is being risked and might be lost or damaged if you are not successful.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣two lives are at stake.
🗣The tension was naturally high for a game with so much at stake.
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18 марта 2024 14:39
📔 hit the jackpot
📋Meaning 1
To win a large amount of money, especially in a lottery.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Stop wasting your money on lottery tickets—it's not like you'll ever hit the jackpot.
📋Meaning 2
To acquire or come into possession of something very beneficial or perfectly suited for one.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Marcy hit the jackpot with her new job—it's basically her dream job, plus a huge salary.
🗣When it comes to boyfriends, Tina hit the jackpot—Dean is basically the perfect guy.
📋Meaning 3
To find exactly what was sought or desired, especially in a large quantity.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣We needed poster board and hit the jackpot at the art supply store down the street.
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17 марта 2024 15:31
📔 the luck of the draw
📋Meaning
Chance, especially that which is solely responsible for determining a result or outcome.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣It was just the luck of the draw that my roommate in college ended up being one of my closest friends for the rest of my life.
🗣No one gets to choose the family they're born into—it's just the luck of the draw.
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16 марта 2024 09:33
📔 kick the bucket
📋Meaning 1
To die.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣If they invent a hoverboard before I kick the bucket, I'm definitely going to try it, no matter how old I am.
🗣Any plant under my care kicks the bucket in about a week.
📋Meaning 2
To stop working completely; to break down.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I had this truck for nearly 30 years before it finally kicked the bucket.
🗣Is the printer jammed again, or has it kicked the bucket this time?
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14 марта 2024 21:25
📔 fly in the ointment
📋Meaning
A flaw or imperfection that detracts from something positive./ a single thing or person that is spoiling.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The only fly in the ointment in an otherwise perfect wedding day was the fact that the bride tripped when walking down the aisle.
🗣I'm looking forward to Sunday, the only fly in the ointment being the fact that I'll have to sit next to my mother-in-law.
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13 марта 2024 09:18
📔 leave a bad taste in mouth
📋Meaning
To give one a negative impression (based on something that has already happened).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I don't know, man, the fact that he lied to you just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
🗣The way they conducted the interview left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't think I'd accept the job even if they offered it.
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12 марта 2024 08:55
📔 Catch with one's pants down
📋Meaning
to surprise someone in an embarrassing situation;
to find someone while they're doing something wrong.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣When I came home early I caught my son with his pants down, smoking one of my husband's cigars with his friends.
🗣My parents caught me with my pants down stealing beer from the keg in the garage.
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11 марта 2024 10:49
📔 Spill the beans
📋Meaning
to tell someone a secret or tell information before you were supposed to.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I accidentally spilled the beans when I told my friend we're painting the baby's room pink.
🗣I cannot believe you spilled the beans about our party tomorrow—now I'll have to invite Nancy.
🗣Mark and I got engaged last night but don't spill the beans to anyone—I want to tell mom and dad in person tomorrow night.
🗣If I spill the beans will you promise not to tell anyone else?
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10 марта 2024 07:20
📔 a needle in a haystack
📋Meaning
something that is very difficult to find (especially because the area you have to search is so large)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I looked everywhere for my earring at the beach but it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
🗣We've been looking for an apartment in Geneva for six weeks and it's like finding a needle in a haystack.
🗣We honestly spent two hours looking for you at the music festival but it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
🗣There's an error somewhere in our sales log and it's a needle in a haystack. We can't find it.
🗣Rescue teams searched the canyon for three days but locating the missing hikers was like finding a needle in a haystack.
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07 марта 2024 09:55
📔 barking up the wrong tree
📋Meaning
We use the expression “barking up the wrong tree” as a metaphor to describe when someone is trying to achieve something but they're doing it in the wrong way (or they are trying to get something but they will not be successful).
1) doing something that will not get you the result you want;
2) to be wrong about the reason for something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I tried to get information from the receptionist about the director but she was just a temporary employee so I was barking up the wrong tree.
🗣My roommate has been flattering her professor to try to become a teaching assistant but she's barking up the wrong tree since the department chair makes those decisions.
🗣My brother keeps bugging my sister for money but he's barking up the wrong tree because she's broke.
🗣You're barking up the wrong tree if you think you'll get into Harvard with your grades.
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06 марта 2024 09:04
📔 cross that bridge when (one) comes to it
📋Meaning
To address something only when it actually happens or becomes an issue.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 A: "Should we reach out to our distributors and let them know there may be a problem down the line?" B: "No, let's just cross that bridge when we get there."
🗣The job interview is a week away, so I'm not worried about it yet—I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
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