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📚chew the fat | chew the rag


✍🏾Meaning
If you chew the fat, or chew the rag, you have a long, friendly chat with someone.


❗️For example

🔸I sometimes call Wendy late at night and we chew the fat for an hour or so before going to sleep.

🔸Why don't you come over on Sunday morning and I'll make some breakfast and we can chew the rag for a couple of hours?

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📒go down (3)




📖Meaning
When the sun or the moon goes down, it gets lower and lower in the sky until it disappears below the horizon.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 What time does the sun go down?

💬 We sat on the beach and watched the sun go down.
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📚wide of the mark



✍🏾Meaning
If something is wide of the mark, it isn't true or accurate, or it misses the target.


❗️For example

🔸The manager expected sales to double this year, but his prediction was wide of the mark. They only increased by ten per cent.

🔸Ronaldo's first shot was wide of the mark, but his second one went right into the back of the net for a goal.
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📒turn into



📖Meaning
to change from one thing into another

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Isn't it incredible how caterpillars turn into butterflies, and tadpoles turn into frogs? Nature really is amazing!

💬 This guy is a great businessman. He turned a small company into a huge global corporation.
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📚come a cropper



✍🏾Meaning
If you come a cropper, you fall over, or you make a mistake which has serious consequences for you.


❗️For example

🔸The prime minister came a cropper while coming down the steps and hurt his backside.

🔸A radio announcer really came a cropper when he made a racist remark. He lost his job and now he can't get another one.
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📒delve into



📖Meaning
to try to find information by examining something thoroughly

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Reporters will often delve into a famous person's past, hoping to find something sensational like an arrest record or a history of drug abuse.

💬One of the hospital's nurses has been arrested for giving secret medical records to a lawyer who was delving into someone's medical history.
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📚a fair-weather friend



✍🏾Meaning
A fair-weather friend is a person who will only be your friend when things are going well for you.


❗️For example

🔸I had lots of friends when I was rich and successful, but when the money was gone it became clear that most were only fair-weather friends.

🔸Would she still want to know you if you were sick or in trouble, or is she just one of those fair-weather friends?
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📒move up (2)



📖Meaning
to move someone to a higher position, a higher level, a higher ranking, etc.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Debbie's teacher said she'd made great progress this term, so she's moving Debbie up to the next grade.

💬 After winning the French Open, Rafael moved up in the rankings.
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🤑How much money do you want to earn?

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📒 There's no such thing as a free lunch



📖Meaning
We cannot get something for nothing. We must pay for everything. Nothing in life is free.

Origin
 Often attributed to the American economist and Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman (1912-2006), this saying was around at least by the 1950s. Friedman popularized but did not originate it.

Variety
This saying is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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❓Which is the correct answer?

These old jeans ... . It's time I got a new pair.
1. have done it
2. have got it
3. have had it

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📚have your work cut out (for you)



✍🏾Meaning
If you have your work cut out for you, you have a difficult task to do or a challenging situation to face.


❗️For example

🔸Our son has left it to the last minute to write his essay, so now he really has his work cut out for him to get it done on time.

🔸Have you seen how good their team looks? You guys are really going to have your work cut out to beat them.
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💠 chicken out 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
to change one's mind about doing something because of fear


❕For example

🔺I was going to go sky diving, but I chickened out at the last minute.

🔺Gary said he felt too sick to go bungee jumping, but his friends said he was just chickening out.

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📒 The road to hell is paved with good intentions



📖Meaning
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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💠 turps 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
alcohol, alcoholic drinks


❕For example

🔺My mate Barry was on the turps for years before he started going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

🔺When I saw Bruce, I said "Geez mate, you don't look too hot. Get stuck into the turps last night, did ya?"
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📒 Patience surpasses learning



📖Meaning
1) The ability to wait for a long time without getting angry is even better than education. 2) the capacity to accept delay without getting upset will achieve more than study in the end
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💠 old school | old-school 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
from a previous period, and usually highly-regarded


❕For example

🔺I like the Nintendo games that are old school the best, like Mario.

🔺That song is an example of old-school rap at its best!
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📒 Brevity is the soul of wit



📖Meaning
The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.
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💠 take 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
stolen money or goods


❕For example

🔺The take from the bank robbery was about ten thousand dollars.

🔺The cops have caught the thieves, but they're still looking for the take.
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📒 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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❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥 ❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥Happy Valentine's day ❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥

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💠 ivories (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
teeth


❕For example

🔺Those Hollywood movie stars have beautiful ivories. They must spend a fortune on dentists.

🔺I've been brushing my teeth twice a day for forty years, but my ivories don't look anything like Brad's. What have I been doing wrong?
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📚a done deal



✍🏾Meaning
A done deal is an agreement or a decision that is final.


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🔸It's a done deal so we can go ahead and start planning the details.

🔸No-one knew about it, but the contract has been a done deal since the senator spoke to the minister last month.
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📒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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💠 junkie | junky 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a drug addict; a person obsessed with something


❕For example

🔺A lot of junkies are still being sent to jail instead of being given treatment to overcome their addiction.

🔺It's sad to see people who start out in politics with high ideals turn into power junkies. They'll do anything to stay in power, from rigging elections to arranging violence to intimidate their opponents.
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📒 Soon learnt, soon forgotten



📖Meaning
Something that is easy and quick to learn is easy to forget.
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