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12 Sep 2024 10:10
📒Make hay while the sun shines
📖Meaning
If we want to make hay, we need sunny weather, so when the sun comes we should take the opportunity to make hay. Thus the proverb suggests that we should make good use of any opportunity while it lasts.
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11 Sep 2024 09:43
💠 psycho 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
crazy, insane
❕For example
🔺This boxer went totally psycho after the referee said he'd lost the fight. He tried to punch the referee and then he was punching anyone who came near him.
🔺 Lots of people get crazy thoughts and fears after smoking marijuana. Anyone who gets these fears shouldn't use it, or it could make them go psycho for real.
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09 Sep 2024 22:44
📒 All things are difficult before they are easy
📖Meaning
The implication is that we should be patient with learning, and with learners. It takes time to learn to do things. What seems easy to us now may have been difficult at first.
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08 Sep 2024 20:55
💠 yob | yobbo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an aggressive, impolite, crude person
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🔺Be careful if you go to a pub on Friday or Saturday night. The yobs will be out and lots of them will be looking for a fight.
🔺 Lots of yobbos travel to places like Spain and Greece and get drunk, behave badly, and damage the image of Britain and the British.
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07 Sep 2024 20:43
📒 When the going gets tough, the tough get going
📖Meaning
When a situation is difficult or dangerous, strong people work harder to resolve the problem. This saying relies on a difficult play on words; it could be rephrased word-for-word as: "When the situation becomes hard, strong people start working."
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04 Sep 2024 22:33
📒figure out (1)
📖Meaning
If you figure something out, you find the solution to a problem or the answer to a question.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 To complete the puzzle, study the clues and try to figure out the solution.
💬 He soon figured out what the problem with his computer was.
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03 Sep 2024 22:26
📚an end in itself
✍🏾Meaning
If something is an end in itself, it's done for its own pleasure or benefit rather than for some other purpose like making money.
❗️For example
🔸Billy says playing music in a band is an end in itself for him, but I think he does it to meet girls.
🔸People used to think education was an end in itself, but these days kids study in order to make lots of money when they graduate.
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02 Sep 2024 21:49
📒dig up
📖Meaning
If you dig up something, you get it from under the ground by digging.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The police dug up the murder victim's body and took it away for examination.
💬 My dog loves digging up bones that I bury in the garden for him.
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01 Sep 2024 21:36
📚dressed (up) to the nines
✍🏾Meaning
If you are dressed to the nines, or dressed up to the nines, you are wearing very smart clothes for a special occasion.
❗️For example
🔸Have you seen Harry? He's dressed to the nines and he looks amazing.
🔸Everyone was dressed up to the nines for the Academy Awards, with the men in tuxedos and the women in evening gowns.
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31 Aug 2024 19:49
📒apply to
📖Meaning
If something applies to you, it is relevant to you or you are affected by it.
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💬 Some young people from rich families seem to think that the law doesn't apply to them.
💬 The company's new regulations on sexual harassment apply to everybody, from the CEO to the cleaners.
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28 Aug 2024 21:10
💠 jollies 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
fun, thrills, enjoyment
❕For example
🔺I can't see the attraction myself, but Bill says he gets his jollies from building and flying model planes and helicopters.
🔺A lot of young people get their jollies from doing adventure stuff like white-water rafting and bungee-jumping.
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27 Aug 2024 20:40
📒 Dumb dogs are dangerous
📖Meaning
People who say little or nothing are more dangerous than people who speak a lot.
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26 Aug 2024 22:28
💠 mo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
moment
❕For example
🔺I'll be back in a mo.
🔺 Hang on a mo!
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11 Sep 2024 22:32
📚x-rated
✍🏾Meaning
If something is x-rated, it is classified as pornographic and therefore not suitable for young people.
❗️For example
🔸One of the first x-rated movies to get a general release was "Last Tango in Paris" with Marlon Brando.
🔸I checked the brower's history and saw that my teenage son had been looking at x-rated websites, as all healthy, normal boys do.
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10 Sep 2024 11:14
📒knock out (1)
📖Meaning
If you are knocked out, you are hit so hard that you lose consciousness.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round and won the fight.
💬 He slipped over in the bathroom and knocked himself out.
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09 Sep 2024 11:22
📚let your hair down
✍🏾Meaning
If you let your hair down, you enjoy yourself by doing whatever you feel like doing and not worrying about what other people might think.
❗️For example
🔸It's hard to imagine Francine letting her hair down and having fun, but Helen said she's like another person when she's not at work. She's funny and lively and she knows how to have a good time.
🔸Come on, George! It's Saturday night so why don't you stop being so serious and sensible and let your hair down for a change?
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08 Sep 2024 09:54
📒head off (1)
📖Meaning
to leave a place
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We'll have to head off early if we want to get there by midday.
💬 I'd better head off. It's getting late and I've got an early start in the morning.
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07 Sep 2024 08:40
📚water under the bridge | water over the dam
✍🏾Meaning
You can say a problem or an experience is water under the bridge, or water over the dam, if it happened in the past and it no longer affects the present to a degree that is worth worrying about.
❗️For example
🔸 I wish people would stop talking about my problems with the law. It all happened a long time ago and it's water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned.
🔸Rhonda says her marriage to Mark is water over the dam and it's time to move on with her life.
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05 Sep 2024 08:43
💠 ripped (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to have well-defined muscles
❕For example
🔺After I'd been working out in the gym for a year or so, people started saying, "You're gettin' ripped, dude."
🔺 We watched a show about prisons last night, and I swear every single guy in there was ripped.
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04 Sep 2024 09:14
📒 Speech is silver, silence is golden
📖Meaning
Speaking is good but saying nothing is better. Discretion can be worth more than even eloquent words.
Note: speech (noun): the act of speaking | silver (noun): a greyish-white precious metal | gold (noun): a yellow precious metal (more valuable than silver) | This proverb is also found as: "Speech is silver but silence is golden."
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03 Sep 2024 09:56
💠 airhead 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a silly, stupid person
❕For example
🔺Joel says only airheads watch the shopping channel.
🔺Just because I'm a blonde woman who likes shopping and going to the gym some people call me an airhead, and I'm not!
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02 Sep 2024 09:23
📒 Give credit where credit is due
📖Meaning
The implication is that even if we are reluctant to praise someone, we should do so if the praise is deserved.
Note: credit (noun) = public praise or acknowledgment | due (adj.) = merited; deserved
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01 Sep 2024 10:40
💠 kickback 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a payment made, often secretly or illegally, to someone who has helped to arrange a deal or a job
❕For example
🔺Several corrupt politicians were arrested for getting kickbacks from companies that were given huge government contracts.
🔺We'll have to pay a $50,000 kickback to the school's principal if we want to get the job of building their new assembly hall.
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31 Aug 2024 08:14
📒 He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea
📖Meaning
The sea is supremely powerful, and can be a terrifying and awe-inspiring place.
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29 Aug 2024 08:19
📚(have) egg on your face
✍🏾Meaning
You will have egg on your face if you've said or done something wrong, and it's made you feel embarrassed or stupid.
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🔸 Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.
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28 Aug 2024 08:24
📒embark on
📖Meaning
to begin something, usually something that will be challenging and time-consuming
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💬 After quitting her job as a teacher, Sam embarked on a new career as a clothes designer.
💬 We're embarking on a campaign to encourage our young people to eat healthy food.
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27 Aug 2024 09:02
📚year dot | year one
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "the year dot", or "the year one", when you're talking about a very, very long time ago.
❗️For example
🔸There have been people living in Australia since the year dot, but Europeans have only been there for about two hundred years.
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26 Aug 2024 07:10
📒hide away
📖Meaning
If you hide away, you go to a place where very few people can find you.
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💬 After writing a very popular book, Paul hid away in a small town in Mexico to escape all the media attention.
💬 There was a small band of rebel soldiers hidden away in the mountains outside the city.
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