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📒 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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📚a ray of sunshine


✍🏾Meaning
Something is a ray of sunshine if it brings happiness to someone.

❗️For example

🔸The birth of Debra's first grandchild less than a year after her husband died came as a much-needed ray of sunshine in her life.

🔸After years of struggling to get established as a writer, the publication of her first short story was a ray of sunshine for Ruth.

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📒 Graves are of all sizes


📖Meaning
People die at all ages; no one is too young to die.

Note: grave (noun) = (usually) a hole in the ground for a dead body | Compare: "In Golgotha are skulls of all sizes." "Death devours lambs as well as sheep."

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📚a tall order


✍🏾Meaning
If you say something's a tall order, you mean that it'll be hard to do or difficult to achieve.

❗️For example

🔸Winning six gold medals at the Olympic Games is a tall order, but not impossible. Mark Spitz won seven at the 1972 Olympics.

🔸Getting kids to read 600-page books is a tall order these days, but the writer of the Harry Potter books has managed to do it.

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📒muscle in


📖Meaning
to use your power or influence to force your way into a situation even if you're not wanted

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 As soon as oil was discovered in the country, the big oil companies muscled in and soon had most of the exploration rights.


💬 When the major airlines saw how well the new route was doing, they muscled in on it and got a piece of the action.

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💠 veejay | VJ 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a presenter of music videos, usually on television

❕For example

🔺My niece has just got a job as a veejay on MTV.

🔺People who work as VJ's don't have to know much about music, but they have to look good on TV and know the latest teenage slang.

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📒come into


📖Meaning
to be given something after its owner dies

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 She's very rich, so her children expect to come into a lot of money when she dies.


💬 Do you think Samantha made all that money herself, or do you think she came into a fortune when a wealthy relative died?

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💠 whack 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to murder, esp. within the context of organised crime

❕For example

🔺There's a contract out to whack Tony B. because he'd whacked Jimmy S., and he'd whacked Jimmy because Jimmy had whacked Paulie T., and so on.

🔺If those Mafia informers don't get protection, they'll be whacked for sure.

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📒 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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📚the ins and outs


✍🏾Meaning
If you know the ins and outs of something, you know all the details about it and understand how it works.

❗️For example

🔸Louis knows how to drive a car, but he knows nothing about the ins and outs of how they work.

🔸It seems that Yoko and Sato are having problems, though I don't really understand the ins and outs of their relationship.

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📒 Fair exchange is no robbery


📖Meaning
Swapping one thing fairly in return for another is not the same as stealing.

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📚yellow journalism


✍🏾Meaning
Journalism in which sensational stories are used to boost sales, or biased reporting is used to change the reader's views on an issue. Both of these are unethical.

❗️For example

🔸Have you noticed how, during a war, normally trustworthy professionals start writing the worst sort of yellow journalism to justify their government's actions?

🔸Joe: "Is there any difference between yellow journalism and propaganda?" Kate: "I think yellow journalism can be even more dangerous than propaganda if it's being presented as objective reporting by well-known journalists."

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📒 Great oaks from little acorns grow


📖Meaning
The normal order of words would be "Great oaks grow from little acorns." We understand: sometimes small and modest things can become very large and impressive things with time.

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📚think the world of


✍🏾Meaning
If you think the world of someone, you admire and respect them very much.

❗️For example

🔸If there's one person most of us think the world of, I guess it'd be Nelson Mandela.

🔸You're a wonderful teacher Miriam, and your students think the world of you, so please don't quit your job.

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📒bring out (1)


📖Meaning
to release a new product

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 They'll be bringing out their latest range of graphic software in the spring.

💬 It's not enough to bring good products out. You also need to market them properly.

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💠 knackered (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
very tired, exhausted

❕For example

🔺After climbing up and down hills and mountains all day, we were totally and completely knackered.

🔺Trevor is incredibly fit. Everyone else was knackered after running ten kilometers, but Trevor looked like he was just warming up.

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📒interest in


📖Meaning
If you interest somebody in something, you make them want to know more about it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Companies try to interest people in their products by promoting and advertising them.

💬 It's amazing how a well-made documentary can interest people in a subject that they've never been interested in before.

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💠 make out 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to hug and kiss, possibly with some petting

❕For example

🔺Lots of couples were making out at the party, but there was no real sex going on.

🔺Mandy saw her boyfriend making out with another girl. She was very upset.

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📒 Don't bite the hand that feeds you


📖Meaning
It is not be a good idea to hurt the person (or company) that pays you or takes care of you.

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📚if push comes to shove


✍🏾Meaning
You can say "if push comes to shove" before saying what you'll do if things don't go as well as you'd like, and you're forced to do something that you'd rather not do.

❗️For example

🔸I've made up my mind and I'm going to have a career in music. I'd love to be in a successful band, but if push comes to shove I can earn money by teaching guitar.

🔸Sandy says she really wants to stay in her apartment, but if push comes to shove she'll just have to move out and find somewhere cheaper.

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📒 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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📚talk through your hat


✍🏾Meaning
If you're talking through your hat, you're talking about something without knowing much about it, or you claim something is true when it isn't.

❗️For example

🔸Evan says that quantum physics proves that space and time don't really exist, but Kathy says he's talking through his hat.

🔸I proved that George was talking through his hat by checking on the internet to find out if what he said is true - and it isn't.

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📒take after


📖Meaning
If you take after an older member of your family, you look like them or you have a similar personality to them.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Alan takes after his mum in personality, but he looks more like his dad.


💬 Do you think Sandy takes after her father or her mother?

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💠 blast (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a great experience, a very enjoyable time

❕For example

🔺You should have come to Neil's birthday party. It was a blast!

🔺The Sydney Gay Mardi Gras was such a blast that we're going again next year, for sure.

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📒chat up


📖Meaning
to talk to someone in the hope of beginning a romantic relationship with them

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Juan is very good at chatting up girls. He knows how to make them laugh.


💬 Mark finds it difficult to chat guys up because he often feels shy, and he doesn't know what to say.

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💠 goof off | goof around 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
waste time, play around

❕For example

🔺Whenever the teacher leaves the classroom she tells her students to keep working, but as soon as she leaves they start goofing off.

🔺It's the kids who goof around in college instead of taking their studies seriously who'll be in trouble when they try to join the workforce.

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📒factor in


📖Meaning
to include a certain item when calculating or planning something

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Don't forget to factor in transport costs when you make the quotation.


💬 You need to factor the political situation in when deciding on a country to invest in.

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💠 limo 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
limousine

❕For example

🔺Are we going to rent a limo and a driver for the wedding?

🔺The limo's got a TV, a computer, and a bar in the back, and about six people can sit in there.

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