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09 Nov 2024 10:19
💠 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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07 Nov 2024 08:58
📒catch on (1)
📖Meaning
If something catches on, it becomes popular.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Mobile phones took a while to catch on, but now everybody's got one.
💬 More and more people are learning how to meditate. It's really catching on.
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06 Nov 2024 10:17
📚worth its weight in gold
✍🏾Meaning
If something is worth its weight in gold, it is extremely valuable or extremely useful.
❗️For example
🔸 Your grandmother's stories are worth their weight in gold, so you should try to record them or write them down.
🔸A personal recommendation from someone like Professor Clark is worth its weight in gold. You'll be able to get a job anywhere you like with that.
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05 Nov 2024 09:15
📒smell of
📖Meaning
to have a particular smell
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Steve says that his clothes always smell of cigarettes after a night at the pub.
💬 His girlfriend was suspicious when he came home smelling of perfume.
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04 Nov 2024 11:13
📚quaking in your boots
✍🏾Meaning
If you're quaking in your boots, you are very frightened.
❗️For example
🔸 This big, ugly dog was growling at me and baring its teeth. I was quaking in my boots, I can tell you!
🔸Our sergeant was a scary guy. He could make a new army recruit quake in his boots just by looking at him.
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03 Nov 2024 10:00
📒drop in
📖Meaning
If you drop something in somewhere, you stop to leave it there and then keep going.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If you're going past the post office, could you drop these letters in for me?
💬 I'll drop the report in on my way to the office.
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02 Nov 2024 09:58
📚an axe to grind (2)
✍🏾Meaning
If you have an axe to grind, you have a strong opinion about something and you express this opinion whenever you can.
❗️For example
🔸Billy's had this axe to grind about globalisation recently and he's always going on about it.
🔸 These people always seem to have an axe to grind and whenever someone interviews them they see it as a chance to push their ideas.
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31 Oct 2024 10:36
💠 ace (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
very skillful, very good at something
❕For example
🔺My little brother was never interested in sports when he was young, but now he's an ace basketball player.
🔺 If you want to be an ace fighter, you should learn hand-to-hand combat skills like karate or Muay Thai.
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30 Oct 2024 10:30
📒 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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29 Oct 2024 07:35
💠 dis | diss 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to show disrespect to someone by saying or doing something insulting
❕For example
🔺Make sure you don't dis any of these guys or they could get really mad with you.
🔺 This guy said I dissed him, but I didn't show him any disrespect. I just didn't treat him like he was better than me.
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28 Oct 2024 12:33
📒 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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27 Oct 2024 12:08
💠 yakuza 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a Japanese criminal organisation, or a member of such an organisation
❕For example
🔺Many members of the yakuza have amazing tattoos that cover nearly every part of their body.
🔺 Everyone knew Hideki was a yakuza because the tip of his left little finger had been cut off.
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26 Oct 2024 13:36
📒 Every dog has his day
📖Meaning
1) Even the lowest of us at some time has a chance to get revenge on an oppressor, no matter how powerful that oppressor may be.
2) We will all have good luck or success at some point in our lives.
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24 Oct 2024 13:00
📚under the weather
✍🏾Meaning
If you are under the weather, you're not feeling well.
❗️For example
🔸Hiroko's feeling a bit under the weather. He thinks he might have the flu.
🔸Sorry, but I don't think I'll be able to make it to work today. I'm feeling a bit under the weather.
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23 Oct 2024 14:12
📒turn out (1)
📖Meaning
to make a light go off
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Don't forget to turn out the lights before you leave the office.
💬 The bathroom light was on this morning. Who forgot to turn it out?
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06 Nov 2024 21:03
📒No man is an island
📖Meaning
Human beings do not (or should not) live in isolation. All people are interconnected. A person is not like an island, standing alone and surrounded by sea.
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05 Nov 2024 19:38
💠 app 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a computer software application
❕For example
🔺Check out this killer app I downloaded last night!
🔺 Karen found this amazing app that makes you look really good in photos. It's great for Facebook photos and stuff.
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04 Nov 2024 19:51
📒Death pays all debts
📖Meaning
Dying cancels everything, including anything that we owe to other people.
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03 Nov 2024 20:31
💠 bloody 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an intensifying expletive used before an adjective, adverb or noun; very, really; total, complete
❕For example
🔺It's bloody hot in here. And now the bloody air conditioner won't work. Bloody hell!
🔺 You'd have to be a bloody idiot to vote for a party that's just ruined the economy.
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02 Nov 2024 20:53
📒 A bad penny always turns up
📖Meaning
Bad or nasty people have a habit of showing up or returning.
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30 Oct 2024 19:48
📒set back (2)
📖Meaning
If something has set you back fifty dollars, it has cost you fifty dollars.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 His new TV must have set him back at least $2,000.
💬 How much would a ticket to The Bahamas set me back?
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29 Oct 2024 21:53
📚whet your appetite
✍🏾Meaning
If something whets your appetite, it makes you want something, or it stimulates your desire for something.
❗️For example
🔸My wife has been listening to reggae music all day. She heard a song by Bob Marley on the radio this morning, and it really whetted her appetite for reggae.
🔸Those ads on TV really whet my appetite for pizza. I even ordered one once, just because of the ad. And I wasn't even hungry!
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28 Oct 2024 21:36
📒rope in
📖Meaning
If somebody ropes you in, they persuade you to do something you don't really want to do.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We're having a charity fun run, so I'm trying to rope in as many of my friends as I can.
💬 Our manager got nearly everybody to say they'd perform in the Christmas talent show. I can't believe he roped so many of us in.
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27 Oct 2024 20:18
📚quid pro quo
✍🏾Meaning
If you do something as a quid pro quo, you do it on the understanding that something will be done for you in return.
❗️For example
🔸I have this quid pro quo with my flatmate where I do his washing for him and he lets me use his computer for an hour a day.
🔸Let's make it a quid pro quo in which you contribute to our party's election fund and we give you a big government contract if we win the election.
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26 Oct 2024 22:23
📒sign in
📖Meaning
to sign a register when you visit a place, or to log in when you visit a website
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Don't forget to sign in when you get to the office in the morning.
💬 If you want to upload a picture to your EnglishClub page, you'll have to sign in first.
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23 Oct 2024 22:12
💠 savvy 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
awareness of how to succeed in competitive pursuits such as politics or business
❕For example
🔺Do you think he has the political savvy needed to get elected party chairman?
🔺 She used her business savvy to finance her political ambitions, and now she's a very powerful politician.
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22 Oct 2024 21:58
📒 A word to the wise is enough
📖Meaning
A very brief warning or explanation is enough for an intelligent person.
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