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12 Dec 2023 18:49
💠 geezer 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an old person
❕For example
🔺I'm late because I got stuck behind some old geezer at the bank who took ages to sort out his stuff.
🔺One day I'll be one of those old geezers who sit in the park all day playing chess and checkers.
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11 Dec 2023 19:58
📒act out
📖Meaning
If you act out, you express your feelings through acts or words.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Jim often gets into trouble because he acts out his emotions without thinking about the consequences.
💬 We can all have violent thoughts and aggressive feelings sometimes, but society doesn't usually allow us to act them out.
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10 Dec 2023 19:47
💠 Yuck! 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an expression of disgust
❕For example
🔺Did you see that guy spit into his ashtray? Yuck!
🔺Aw, yuck! This toilet smells terrible.
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09 Dec 2023 19:02
📒cheer on
📖Meaning
to shout loudly to encourage someone, especially someone who's playing sport or competing in a race
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 As the players tried hard to score a goal, their fans jumped up and cheered them on.
💬 We all cheered on our favourite horse as they galloped towards the finishing line.
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07 Dec 2023 07:53
📒 Look upon death as a going home
📖Meaning
We may consider dying to be a kind of returning to house and family.
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06 Dec 2023 10:36
📚the icing on the cake | the frosting on the cake
✍🏾Meaning
If something is the icing on the cake, or the frosting on the cake, it makes a good situation or a good result even better.
❗️For example
🔸The fifty thousand dollars the government will give to every athlete who wins a gold medal in the Olympics will be the icing on the cake for them.
🔸AI was happy just to get my book published, so winning the young writer's prize as well is the frosting on the cake.
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05 Dec 2023 08:32
📒 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
📖Meaning
Different people see beauty in different ways. What one person finds beautiful may not appeal to another person.
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04 Dec 2023 08:05
📚keep it under your hat
✍🏾Meaning
If someone tells you a secret and you keep it under your hat, you don't tell anyone.
❗️For example
🔸I'll only tell you if you promise to keep it under your hat.
🔸Aunt Biddy said she couldn't possibly tell me the family secrets because she'd pledged on her mother's grave to keep them under her hat.
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03 Dec 2023 09:16
📒 When the devil cannot come, he will send
📖Meaning
The implication is that the devil is very persistent. He will always find a way to tempt us. If the devil cannot bring temptation to us himself, he will find someone else to bring it.
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02 Dec 2023 08:00
📚um and ah
✍🏾Meaning
If you "um and ah" you're having trouble deciding what to say, or you're having trouble telling somebody something.
❗️For example
🔸Stop umming and ahing and just tell me what happened!
🔸James ummed and ahed for a while, but he eventually agreed to help us get the deal.
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30 Nov 2023 09:49
💠 bimbo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a pretty, but empty-headed, young lady
❕For example
🔺Linda says most of the women who marry professional golfers or footballers look like bimbos whose main interest in life is shopping.
🔺Cindy said she wasn't a bimbo, and proved it by saying the word itself reflected the oppressive stereotyping that attractive women were still subject to despite the gains made by the feminist movement.
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29 Nov 2023 09:42
📒come to (2)
📖Meaning
to add up to a particular total
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The total cost came to over two thousand dollars.
💬 The bill comes to $140.
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28 Nov 2023 09:29
💠 rug 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a man's hairpiece, a toupee
❕For example
🔺Is that guy wearing a rug, or does he just have a really bad haircut?
🔺When Stan started to go bald, he decided to get a rug.
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27 Nov 2023 12:02
📒go after (2)
📖Meaning
to try to get something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Are you planning to go after Alex's job when he retires?
💬 If Rupert thinks there's a chance to take over a profitable company, he'll go after it with everything he's got.
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12 Dec 2023 09:52
📒 Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself
📖Meaning
A bad person will sooner or later be the cause of his own downfall.
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11 Dec 2023 07:29
📚talk turkey
✍🏾Meaning
If you talk turkey, you discuss something seriously, usually to do with business or money.
❗️For example
🔸After the owner had shown him around the apartment, Shane decided it was just what he wanted, so he said, "OK, I'm interested. Let's talk turkey."
🔸I started to say something about the deal, but Mr Hamilton said, "Not now, my boy. We never talk turkey at the dinner table."
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10 Dec 2023 08:04
📒 People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
📖Meaning
This saying warns us against hypocrisy. We should not criticize other people for things we do ourselves.
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09 Dec 2023 09:20
📚answer the call of nature
✍🏾Meaning
If you answer the call of nature, you go to the toilet.
❗️For example
🔸Could we stop somewhere? I need to answer the call of nature.
🔸Does anyone need to answer the call of nature before we set off?
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07 Dec 2023 17:32
💠 git 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a fool, a stupid person
❕For example
🔺When the waiter brought him the wrong dish, Bill lost his cool and shouted, "This is not what I ordered, you stupid git!"
🔺Those gits who work for the government never seem to get it right.
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06 Dec 2023 18:46
📒get over
📖Meaning
to recover from something like an illness or a shock
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 How long did it take you to get over the illness?
💬 Tony was heartbroken when his girlfriend left him, and it took him ages to get over it.
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05 Dec 2023 17:56
💠 mash-up 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a recording that mixes together tracks from two or more different songs or instrumental pieces
❕For example
🔺You can find heaps of great mash-ups on Facebook sites and download them for free.
🔺I just did this mash-up of Fela Kuti and Steve Reich and put some spacey electro stuff over the top.
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04 Dec 2023 17:37
📒stand for (1)
📖Meaning
If letters or symbols stand for something, they represent that thing.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The letters "MBA" stand for Master of Business Administration.
💬 Do you know what the letters "BA" stand for?
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03 Dec 2023 17:12
💠 nick (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to arrest somebody
❕For example
🔺Billy was caught speeding on his motorbike. It's his second offence, so if he gets nicked again he'll lose his licence.
🔺Our neighbours were nicked last night for selling illegal drugs. We used to see lots of people going in and out, but we had no idea they were dealing in drugs.
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02 Dec 2023 19:12
📒run after
📖Meaning
If you run after someone, you chase them and try to catch up with them by running.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I wish my dog wouldn't run after cars. He nearly got hit by one today.
💬 After the thief grabbed my wife's handbag, I ran after him but he got away. He was really fast.
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29 Nov 2023 17:33
📒 He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still
📖Meaning
If you force someone to do something or agree with something, it doesn't mean that they really agree.
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28 Nov 2023 18:37
📚the last straw
✍🏾Meaning
Something is the last straw if it's the latest in a series of annoying or upsetting events, and it's the one that finally makes you do something about the situation.
❗️For example
🔸I was already close to resigning, but the last straw was being bossed around by some kid twenty years younger than me. After that, I quit the job.
🔸I saw my girlfriend flirting with another guy at the party, and that was the last straw. I told her our relationship was over and I left.
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27 Nov 2023 15:28
📒 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
📖Meaning
An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.
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26 Nov 2023 19:19
📚a sight for sore eyes
✍🏾Meaning
If something or someone is a sight for sore eyes, you are glad to see them.
❗️For example
🔸It's been raining here for a week, so it sure was a sight for sore eyes when we saw the sun this morning.
🔸Hey, Ozzie! You're a sight for sore eyes, man. Haven't seen you for ages.
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