English Language

21 Sep 2023 20:37

📒run on (1)


📖Meaning
to use a particular type of fuel or a particular power source

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Why did it take so long for the big car companies to develop and market cars that run on electricity instead of fossil fuels?

💬 My new mobile phone runs on a battery that lasts for a month before it needs recharging.

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20 Sep 2023 19:15

💠 ratty (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
easily annoyed or upset, irritable


❕For example

🔺Laura got drunk last night, and now she's got a hangover and she feels a bit ratty.

🔺I had a really bad day at work today, so sorry if I seem a little ratty tonight.

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19 Sep 2023 20:07

📒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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18 Sep 2023 18:30

💠 empty-nester 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a parent whose children have grown up and left home


❕For example

🔺After spending many years raising their children, Kevin and Joan are now empty-nesters after their youngest daughter went to live with some friends.

🔺We're still getting used to being empty-nesters. The house seems so quiet all the time.

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17 Sep 2023 19:30

📒take up (3)


📖Meaning
to shorten a piece of clothing or a curtain to make it the right size

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 These jeans are a bit too long. Could you take them up for me?

💬 I have to take up the new curtains in the bedroom.

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16 Sep 2023 18:29

💠 zine 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a cheaply produced magazine, usually related to music or the arts

❕For example

🔺This friend of ours has just started putting out his own zine. It's about music and the arts in Melbourne.

🔺How much do you reckon it'd cost to publish a monthly zine?

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14 Sep 2023 20:13

📒embark on


📖Meaning
to begin something, usually something that will be challenging and time-consuming

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 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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14 Sep 2023 09:08

📚lend someone a hand


✍🏾Meaning
If you lend someone a hand, you help them.

❗️For example

🔸Could you lend me a hand with these bags?

🔸Sue's husband is amazing. He'll even lend a hand in the kitchen when she's cooking for a dinner party!

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13 Sep 2023 08:58

📒 All truths are not to be told


📖Meaning
Some truths are better left unspoken. It is not always necessary to repeat something even though it be true.

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12 Sep 2023 07:44

📚a pipe dream


✍🏾Meaning
A pipe dream is a plan or a dream for the future that could never come true or be achieved.

❗️For example

🔸The idea of a perfect world in which everyone lives in peace and harmony is just a pipe dream.

🔸Pipe dreams only ever come true in the movies.

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11 Sep 2023 09:15

📒 Where there's a will there's a way


📖Meaning
If we have the determination to do something, we can always find the path or method to do it.

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10 Sep 2023 07:35

📚zero-sum game


✍🏾Meaning
A zero-sum game is a situation in which any gain by one side or person is at the expense of a loss to another side or person involved in the situation.

❗️For example

🔸The stock market has become a giant zero-sum game in which one investor gains what another investor loses.

🔸In a zero-sum game, if you add the total gains of the participants and the total losses of the participants, the sum will always be zero.

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09 Sep 2023 08:59

📒 Nothing ventured, nothing gained


📖Meaning
We can't expect to achieve anything if we never take any risks.

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07 Sep 2023 08:51

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06 Sep 2023 19:01

💠 sickie 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a day taken off work after calling in sick when one is actually well

❕For example

🔺Paul throws a sickie at least once a month. I wonder if his boss has noticed that he's always "sick" when the weather is beautiful?

🔺Robbo reckons the surf's awesome today, so I'm chuckin' a sickie and headin' down the coast.

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21 Sep 2023 09:36

📚beat the rap


✍🏾Meaning
If someone beats the rap, they avoid being found guilty of a crime.

❗️For example

🔸Everyone knows that Jimmy the Snitch did the robbery in Green St., but he beat the rap because he's in with the cops.

🔸Henry was charged with drunk driving, but his lawyer helped him beat the rap on some technical detail.

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20 Sep 2023 13:01

📒 A still tongue makes a wise head


📖Meaning
Someone who does not talk much, but listens to other people, probably has experience, knowledge and good judgement.

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19 Sep 2023 07:51

📚a voice (crying) in the wilderness


✍🏾Meaning
You're a voice in the wilderness, or a voice crying in the wilderness, if you're expressing an unpopular opinion or insight.


❗️For example

🔸When Galileo stated that the sun was the centre of the solar system, he was a voice crying in the wilderness. Most people thought he was crazy or evil, or possibly both.

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18 Sep 2023 08:26

📒 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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17 Sep 2023 09:13

📚above the law


✍🏾Meaning
If someone is above the law, they are not subject to the laws of a society.

❗️For example

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16 Sep 2023 09:43

📒 Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich


📖Meaning
God makes no distinction between people with money and people without money.

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14 Sep 2023 09:18

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13 Sep 2023 19:32

💠 ecofreak 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a person with strong views on the importance of protecting the natural environment

❕For example

🔺Before becoming Minister for the Environment, Peter was a rock star and an ecofreak.

🔺All these ecofreaks came and lay down in front of the bulldozers to stop them from clearing the forest.

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12 Sep 2023 19:23

📒catch on (2)


📖Meaning
If you catch on, you suddenly understand something that you couldn't understand at first.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Not all of my students understood the idea at first, but before long they all caught on.

💬 Most scientists now accept that global warming is really happening, but it took a while for a lot of them to catch on.

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11 Sep 2023 20:29

💠 fart 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to release gas from the anus (v.) | a release of gas from the anus (n.)

❕For example

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🔺We were driving home when someone did a fart. It smelled so bad that we had to open the windows.

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10 Sep 2023 20:08

📒turn over (2)


📖Meaning
to change your body's position when lying down so that you are facing the opposite direction

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 My back was sore, and every time I turned over it hurt.

💬 I was sound asleep when my wife turned over and accidentally slapped my face.

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09 Sep 2023 18:24

💠 poof | poofter 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
an offensive, derogatory word meaning a gay man

❕For example

🔺Everybody thought Gavin was a poof because he liked classical music and going to the ballet.

🔺Boys in my high school used to go "poofter bashing". They'd find a guy in the park they thought was gay, and they'd beat him up.

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07 Sep 2023 17:52

📒stick with


📖Meaning
to continue with the same thing, instead of changing to something else

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 He's decided to stick with the team he's playing for now, even though another team offered him a lot of money to play for them instead.

💬 Kenny has stuck with the same group of friends ever since high school.

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07 Sep 2023 08:28

📚a new lease on life


✍🏾Meaning
If someone has a new lease on life, they have a new enthusiasm for living.


❗️For example

🔸After recovering from her illness, Kathy had a new lease on life and made lots of plans for the future.

🔸When my uncle quit drinking it gave him a new lease on life and he started doing things he hadn't done for years.

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05 Sep 2023 19:03

📒 As soon as man is born he begins to die


📖Meaning
The process of dying starts at birth. This saying reminds us of our own mortality, whatever our age.

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