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28 апреля 2024 10:31

📔 banker's hours


📋Meaning
A limited work schedule (as banks were once known for having short work days and being closed on holidays and weekends).

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣You won't be able to reach her on a Saturday—she keeps banker's hours.
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27 апреля 2024 09:56

📔 case of the dropsy


📋Meaning
A fictitious "condition" characterized by continually dropping things from one's hands. It is a play on the term "dropsy," which was formerly used to denote the condition now known as edema (or oedema).

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I've broken four or five plates since I started work. I guess I've got a bad case of the dropsy today.
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25 апреля 2024 21:26

📔 the big picture



📋Meaning
  the situation as a whole.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "he's so involved in the minutiae that he often overlooks the big picture"
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24 апреля 2024 22:56

📔 living on the edge



📋Meaning
 To have an adventurous or perilous lifestyle; to behave in a manner which creates risks for oneself.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Despite the apparent respectability, he was a man who liked to live on the edge.
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23 апреля 2024 21:41

📔 a cut above the rest


📋Meaning
Better in quality than most others.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This new restaurant is a cut above the rest.

🗣Trust me, Johannes is a cut above the rest. If you want the best legal advice money can buy, he's your man.

🗣An entrant's essay must be a cut above the rest for it to win our top prize.
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22 апреля 2024 23:17

📔 a cut above the rest


📋Meaning
Better in quality than most others.

🤔For example ⬇️

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🗣Trust me, Johannes is a cut above the rest. If you want the best legal advice money can buy, he's your man.

🗣An entrant's essay must be a cut above the rest for it to win our top prize.
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21 апреля 2024 23:10

📔 a cut below


📋Meaning
Of lower quality than or inferior to someone or something else, especially that of the expected norm.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This waiter is really a cut below what I would expect from this restaurant.

🗣Your essay was a cut below, honestly. That's why it didn't win the contest.

🗣I haven't been that impressed with any of the candidates for the sales position—they've just been a cut below.
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20 апреля 2024 20:37

📔 freak of nature


📋Meaning
Something or someone that is unusual, rare, or abnormal in some way; beyond or outside the natural world.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The goat they have at the circus sideshow is a real freak of nature, it was born with two heads!

🗣He can lift over 500 pounds in the gym, he's like some freak of nature.
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18 апреля 2024 21:51

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18 апреля 2024 08:28

📔 The grass is greener on the other side



📋Meaning   
other people always seem to be in a better situation than you, although they may not be



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Our bookkeeper always imagined that the grass is greener on the other side. She quit her job to pursue a legal education.

🗣 Bob always thinks the grass is greener elsewhere, which accounts for his constant job changes.
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17 апреля 2024 11:33

📔 Mad as a hatter (UK idiom)



📋Meaning
  Completely mad. 


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I know some of my students think I'm as mad as a hatter because of my weird methods.

🗣 I'll be mad as a hatter if I have to deal with these screaming toddlers for much longer.
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16 апреля 2024 07:30

📔 cut corners



📋Meaning
  do something perfunctorily so as to save time or money.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "there is always a temptation to cut corners when time is short"
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15 апреля 2024 08:06

📔 as high as a kite


📋Meaning
  intoxicated with drugs or alcohol.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I tried to talk to her after the party, but she was as high as a kite.
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14 апреля 2024 10:45

📔 picturesque



📋Meaning
  visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty style.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 the picturesque covered bridges of New England

🗣  the picturesque narrow street s of the old city.
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13 апреля 2024 10:53

📔 through thick and thin


📋Meaning
  under all circumstances, no matter how difficult.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "they stuck together through thick and thin"
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27 апреля 2024 22:11

📔 raise the roof



📋Meaning
make or cause someone else to make a great deal of noise, especially through cheering. 



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "when I finally scored the fans raised the roof"
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25 апреля 2024 21:29

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25 апреля 2024 08:44

📔 crushing blow


📋Meaning
A major defeat or setback that is devastating to the goals of a person, group, or organization.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The team's loss last Sunday was a crushing blow to their chances for a championship.

🗣Failing that test was a crushing blow to my hopes for an honors degree.
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24 апреля 2024 10:02

📔 cushy job


📋Meaning
A job that is easy, stress-free, and/or very well paid.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Since I got this cushy job managing a toy store, I've gotten to sit around playing with toys all day.

🗣Since Sarah got that cushy job with the bank, she has been driving a sports car and is buying a second home!
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23 апреля 2024 10:33

📔 the elephant in the room



📋Meaning
  a major problem or controversial issue which is obviously present but is avoided as a subject for discussion.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "they've steadfastly ignored the elephant in the room: the ever-growing debt burden on graduates"
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22 апреля 2024 08:45

📔 The sky is the limit



📋Meaning
  If you say the sky is the limit, you mean that there is nothing to prevent someone or something from being very successful.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 They have found that, in terms of both salary and career success, the sky is the limit. 
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21 апреля 2024 09:59

📔 Time flies



📋Meaning
  used to observe that time seems to pass very quickly.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "people say time flies when you're having fun"
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20 апреля 2024 08:26

📔 Button your lips



📋Meaning
  to not talk about something



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Button your lip. He's coming toward us. Don't tell him what I said, please.
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18 апреля 2024 21:47

📔 a free bit of advice


📋Meaning
A suggestion, opinion, or piece of advice that was unrequested or unsolicited by the recipient.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Allow me to give you a free bit of advice, my friend: don't say something you'll end up regretting later.

🗣I know you're worried about your kids, but here's a free bit of advice—you can't protect them from every little thing.

🗣Hey, here's a free bit of advice for you during your internship—always be kind and polite. People remember if you treat them well.
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17 апреля 2024 20:54

📔 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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16 апреля 2024 20:32

📔 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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15 апреля 2024 22:45

📔 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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14 апреля 2024 23:46

📔 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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13 апреля 2024 21:26

📔 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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12 апреля 2024 21:57

📔 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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