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02 Oct 2024 21:12
📒get away with
📖Meaning
to do something illegal or immoral and not get caught or punished
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Janet got away with shoplifting clothes the first few times, but she soon got caught and now she's stuck with a police record for the rest of her life.
💬 Bobby nearly got away with the robbery, but he spent the money too quickly and local police who knew him got suspicious.
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01 Oct 2024 20:26
📚chickens come home to roost
✍🏾Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.
❗️For example
🔸Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.
🔸The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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30 Sep 2024 21:43
📒follow through
📖Meaning
to continue something to the next stage, or to complete something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We saw hundreds of protesters marching on government house.
💬 Why don't you come and join us as we march on the headquarters of the World Bank?
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29 Sep 2024 22:43
📚save the day
✍🏾Meaning
If you save the day, you do something to ensure success or to solve a serious problem.
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🔸It looked like we were going to lose the game, but Ronaldo saved the day by kicking two late goals.
🔸 Then a guy rides in on a white horse and saves the day by killing the bad guys and rescuing the girl.
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28 Sep 2024 20:27
📒iron out
📖Meaning
If you iron out the last details of a deal, you sort out the final problems or issues.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If we have any differences or issues, we'll have to iron them out before we sign a deal.
💬 Ronaldo's manager and the club are ironing out a couple of final issues, but they should have everything sorted out soon.
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25 Sep 2024 11:20
💠 empty out 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to remove everything from inside something
❕For example
🔺The cops stopped the boys and told them to empty out their pockets.
🔺 I knew I'd been promoted when the boss smiled and told me to empty my old desk out and take everything to the office next to his.
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24 Sep 2024 11:26
📒 The road to hell is paved with good intentions
📖Meaning
1) People who believe they are doing good can end up doing bad (the law of unintended consequences). 2) There is no value in simply planning to do good if you don't actually do it.
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23 Sep 2024 11:03
💠 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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22 Sep 2024 12:58
📒 A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks
📖Meaning
This somewhat sexist saying suggests that men age better than women.
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21 Sep 2024 11:53
💠 mosh pit 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an area in front of the stage at a rock concert where people dance energetically, or "mosh"
❕For example
🔺The best concert I've ever been to was a Nirvana gig in the early nineties when Kurt Cobain jumped into the mosh pit.
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19 Sep 2024 06:19
📒knock over (1)
📖Meaning
to hit somebody with a vehicle and injure or kill them
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 You should wear a mask over your mouth so that you don't pass on the disease.
💬 We were walking along the side of the road when this crazy guy in a truck nearly knocked us over.
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17 Sep 2024 21:57
📚eat humble pie
✍🏾Meaning
If you eat humble pie, you admit that you are in the wrong and behave apologetically.
❗️For example
🔸Jim had to eat humble pie after we proved that what he'd said was wrong.
🔸Some politicians are so arrogant that they won't eat humble pie even when it's clear they've made a mistake. They just say they were "misinformed".
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16 Sep 2024 20:23
📒pull over
📖Meaning
If you're driving a car and you pull over, you move over to the side of the road and stop.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The taxi pulled over to pick up a passenger.
💬 When I saw the police car following me with its lights flashing, I pulled over and turned off the engine.
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15 Sep 2024 10:26
📚a piece of cake
✍🏾Meaning
If you say that something is a piece of cake, you mean that it is extremely easy.
❗️For example
🔸I finished my exam 30 minutes early. It was a piece of cake!
🔸Compared to learning Japanese, learning Indonesian was a piece of cake. It's a much simpler language.
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02 Oct 2024 11:20
📒Rome wasn't built in a day
📖Meaning
All things take time to create. And great things like the city of Rome take a very long time. So we shouldn't expect to accomplish something or achieve success immediately.
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01 Oct 2024 13:18
💠 mosh pit 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an area in front of the stage at a rock concert where people dance energetically, or "mosh"
❕For example
🔺The best concert I've ever been to was a Nirvana gig in the early nineties when Kurt Cobain jumped into the mosh pit.
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30 Sep 2024 10:26
📒None so deaf as those who will not hear
📖Meaning
Nobody is deafer than the person who decides he does not want to listen. Often used in reference to prejudice and intolerance.
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29 Sep 2024 13:23
💠 hang | hang out 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to spend time with
❕For example
🔺I'm goin' down the park to hang with my friends.
🔺 Hey, you girls. Why don't you hang out with me and the guys for a while?
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28 Sep 2024 14:03
📒 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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26 Sep 2024 13:27
📚(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.
❗️For example
🔸 Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.
🔸The police force had egg on its face because they arrested and beat up an innocent guy who had the same name as a suspect they were looking for.
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24 Sep 2024 20:04
📒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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23 Sep 2024 22:37
📚jobs for the boys
✍🏾Meaning
If you say "jobs for the boys" you're referring to the fact that people in positions of power sometimes use their power to give jobs to their friends or family members.
❗️For example
🔸Henry deserved the position, but it was a case of jobs for the boys, as usual, and one of the boss's old school friends got it instead of Henry.
🔸 The new government has promised to stop the old system of jobs for the boys when it comes to appointing departmental heads.
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22 Sep 2024 22:35
📒pass on
📖Meaning
If you pass something on, you give it to another person after receiving it yourself.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 You should wear a mask over your mouth so that you don't pass on the disease.
💬 After taking your piece of cake, pass the plate on to the next person.
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21 Sep 2024 22:11
📚cook the books | cook the accounts
✍🏾Meaning
If someone cooks the books, or cooks the accounts, they keep inaccurate accounts for a business, usually in order to pay less tax.
❗️For example
🔸Their accountant was charged with cooking the books, and now he's in jail.
🔸I found this website that shows you how to cook the accounts, but I'd never try doing it.
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18 Sep 2024 12:11
📒 Still waters run deep
📖Meaning
Some rivers have rough surfaces with waves. That's usually because the water is shallow and there are rocks near the surface. But deep rivers have no rocks near the surface and the water is smooth and still. "Still waters run deep" means that people who are calm and tranquil on the outside, often have a strong, "deep" personality.
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17 Sep 2024 10:46
💠 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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16 Sep 2024 09:08
📒None so deaf as those who will not hear
📖Meaning
Nobody is deafer than the person who decides he does not want to listen. Often used in reference to prejudice and intolerance.
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14 Sep 2024 20:51
💠 indie 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
rock music not released by major music labels
❕For example
🔺The indie scene began back in the late 70's and early 80's with bands like Joy Division and The Slits.
🔺 Steve reckons the best indie band of all time is Radiohead.
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