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* to resign = to give up a job or position by telling your employer that you are leaving
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By the way:
Spot Burn
1. When someone ruins your secret fishing spot.
2. When someone is doing something that is annoying you (spot burning you)
"I can't believe they found out where my fishing spot was from my Instagram pic and those nasty guys spot burned me".
"We're through the worst of the recession - we're out of the woods now."
"That pneumonia was serious, but Charles is finally out of the woods."
That's the new topic for the week.
"You should see Bob's living room. It's as big as all outdoors! The new movie theater is as big as all outdoors.
vicious circle = a negative situation that is constantly maintained or worsened, rather than resolved.
The fatter I get, the unhappier I am, so I eat to cheer myself up, which makes me fatter yet - it's a vicious circle .
One post a day keeps laziness away!
Everything will fall right into place starting this Monday. Good luck :)
(yep, the idiom refers to the fact that the weather is usually very hot in July)
Finally, we are back in the saddle with exuberant vocabulary.
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you don't get me = you don't understand me
what is the matter with you = is there something wrong with you?
la-la land:
1. Los Angeles, California (often abbreviated L.A.). This expression pokes fun at the alleged eccentricities of the city's inhabitants. For example, What do you expect? Frederick has lived in la-la land for ten years and it has rubbed off on him . [Slang; c. 1980]
2. A state of being out of touch with reality, as in "I don't know what's going on with Amy - she seems to be in la-la land'. [Slang; c. 1980]
The most anticipated series has just revealed its official trailer. We can do nothing but share :)
https://youtu.be/giYeaKsXnsI?utm_content=kuku.io&utm_medium=social&utm_source=telegram&utm_campaign=kuku.io
to watch:
1. To look or observe attentively or carefully; be closely observant: watching for trail markers.
2. To look and wait expectantly or in anticipation: watch for an opportunity.
3. To act as a spectator; look on: stood by the road and watched.
4. To stay awake at night while serving as a guard, sentinel, or watcher.
5. To stay alert as a devotional or religious exercise; keep vigil.
Get the show on the road! We have just posted a new idiom.
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Here, sit down and relax so that you can regain your composure and share our new posts with friends.
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Probably the most impressing video of the day is here for you:
https://youtu.be/MBRqu0YOH14?utm_content=kuku.io&utm_medium=social&utm_source=telegram&utm_campaign=kuku.io
It's a bit sad till the middle but has quite a motivating ending.
"to have green fingers" is from British & Australian language, while "to have a green thumb" is for the Americans.
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bed of roses = a comfortable or luxurious position, as in "Taking care of these older patients is no bed of roses. This metaphor, first recorded in 1635, is often used in a negative context, as in the example.
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That's just into the topic.
to stab - to wound with a pointed weapon
"I know it's September, but don't get out your winter clothes just yet — this area often has an Indian summer. I hate the cold weather, so I'm hoping for an Indian summer."
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...Oh yes, I will summer and winter him during this probationary period, to determine if we should hire him full-time.
*probation = a process or period in which a person's fitness, as for work or membership in a social group, is tested
...sharing the most useful idioms with you!
You never know what you will have to do in the future. Maybe it will be corn growing.
OK, now it's a right time to share the new Game of Thrones trailer with you.
The trailer itself is here: https://goo.gl/a8VZGe
Here are the official subtitles:
0:01 ♪ (PIANO PLAYING) ♪
0:04 PETYR BAELISH: Don't fight in the north,
0:06 or the south.
0:09 Fight every battle everywhere.
0:13 Always...
0:16 in your mind.
0:17♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
0:26♪ (WOMAN VOCALIZING) ♪
0:43 JON SNOW: For centuries, our families fought together
0:47 against their common enemy.
0:50 Despite their differences. Together.
0:54 We need to do the same if we're gonna survive.
0:58 'Cause the enemy is real.
1:00♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪
1:05JON SNOW: It's always been real.
1:10(MEN SHOUTING)
1:15(DRAGON GROWLING)
1:24♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES, STOPS) ♪
1:28(WIND WHISTLING)
1:30 SANSA STARK: When the snows fall
1:33 and the white winds blow,
1:37 the lone wolf dies,
1:39 but the pack survives.
1:42♪ (PIANO PLAYS) ♪
root for someone or something = to cheer and encourage someone or something
...let's root for the admin to cope with all the deadlines and post new cheerful idioms :)
"Houston, we have a problem" is a popular but erroneous (=incorrect) quote from the radio communications between the Apollo 13 astronauts and the NASA Mission Control Center ("Houston") during the Apollo 13 spaceflight, as the astronauts communicated their discovery of the explosion that crippled (=corrupted) their spacecraft. The erroneous wording was popularized by the 1995 film Apollo 13, a dramatization of the Apollo 13 mission, in which actor Tom Hanks, portraying Mission Commander Jim Lovell, uses that wording, which became one of the film's taglines (=slogans).
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a nail-biter is:
1. Literally, someone who bites off his or her fingernails, especially due to nervousness or agitation.
I was a nail-biter at a young age, and, try as I might, I've never managed to shake the habit completely.
2. By extension, a situation, especially a competitive one, whose outcome is particularly close or uncertain and marked by nervous apprehension.
Did you catch the football match last Sunday? Man, what a nail-biter!
Well... "To develop" has numerous meanings, yet these two are the most interesting:
To bring out the possibilities of; bring to a more advanced, effective, or usable state;
To process (a photosensitive medium such as exposed film) in order to produce a photographic image.
Well, that's a great way to move from the "victory" topic to the "films" one.
take something over = to take control of something / to assume responsibility for a task / to acquire all of an asset; [for a company] to acquire another company / to deliver someone or something to someone or something