📒leave up to
📖Meaning
If you leave something up to someone, you let them do it or you give them responsibility for it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We need to upgrade our computer network, and Harry is our computer expert so we'll leave it up to him.
💬 We'll leave it up to the accountant to decide how to invest the money.
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💠 out (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to be openly gay
❕For example
🔺Clive is one of the few gay sportsmen with the courage to be out. Most still try to keep their sexuality a secret.
🔺When I was seventeen, I told my family I was gay and I'm glad I came out when I did.
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📒 Graves are of all sizes
📖Meaning
People die at all ages; no one is too young to die.
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💠 bling 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
flashy jewellery worn to create the impression of wealth
❕For example
🔺Check out all the bling around that guy's neck. It must weigh a ton!
🔺Most people have gold bling or silver bling, but they don't usually mix it up.
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📒 A watched pot never boils
📖Meaning
If you want to heat water until it boils, and you watch it while you wait, then it seems to take a very long time. In the same way, anything that we wait for with eager attention seems to take a very long time: like waiting for someone to arrive, waiting for the phone to ring, waiting for a letter to come.
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💠 funk 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
(in phrase be in a funk) an unhappy, depressed mood
❕For example
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🔺Everyone in the office has been in a funk since we heard that our company might be going bankrupt.
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📚talk turkey
✍🏾Meaning
If you talk turkey, you discuss something seriously, usually to do with business or money.
❗️For example
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📒queue up
📖Meaning
If you queue up, you join a line of people waiting for their turn to do something.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 When we went to the bank we had to queue up at the counter.
💬 Don't you hate it when you've been queuing up for a ticket, and they run out just before you get to the counter?
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📒 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
📖Meaning
Different people see beauty in different ways. What one person finds beautiful may not appeal to another person.
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💠 mega 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
very big; extremely
❕For example
🔺Those guys who started software companies back in the seventies are mega rich by now.
🔺The Beatles were one of the mega bands of the century, for sure.
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📒 If you play with fire you get burned
📖Meaning
If you fool around with something that is potentially dangerous, you must expect to get harmed.
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📚like a fish out of water
✍🏾Meaning
You feel like a fish out of water if you're surrounded by people who are different to you, and it's making you feel a little uncomfortable.
❗️For example
🔸I was the only black person in a church full of white people, and I felt like a fish out of water at first. But lots of people came up and talked to me after the service, and I soon felt quite at home.
🔸Sayoko travels to a lot of unusual places. She says feeling like a fish out of water is sometimes interesting.
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📚elbow grease
✍🏾Meaning
If something needs elbow grease, it needs a lot of hard physical work.
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🔸The secret of a really shiny car is turtle wax and elbow grease.
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📒run away (1)
📖Meaning
If you run away from something or someone, you run as fast as you can to escape.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 As soon as he heard the sound of the police car coming, Benny ran away so that the cops wouldn't catch him.
💬While I was coming home a dog growled and barked at me, but it ran away after I yelled at it.
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📚dressed (up) to the nines
✍🏾Meaning
If you are dressed to the nines, or dressed up to the nines, you are wearing very smart clothes for a special occasion.
❗️For example
🔸Have you seen Harry? He's dressed to the nines and he looks amazing.
🔸Everyone was dressed up to the nines for the Academy Awards, with the men in tuxedos and the women in evening gowns.
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📒kick off (2)
📖Meaning
to force someone to leave something like a team or a committee
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Anyone who is caught using performance-enhancing drugs will be kicked off the team.
💬 When they saw the evidence, they kicked Dan off the committee for accepting bribes.
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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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💠 louse up 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to spoil something or make it fail
❕For example
🔺She really wants this job, so I hope she doesn't louse up the interview.
🔺Don't worry. He won't louse it up. He's been doing these deals for years.
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📚stick out like a sore thumb | stand out like a sore thumb
✍🏾Meaning
If someone sticks out like a sore thumb, or stands out like a sore thumb, everyone notices them because they're not the same as the people around them.
❗️For example
🔸Kenny stuck out like a sore thumb at the party. He was the only person wearing a suit and a tie.
🔸When I was in the Nigerian countryside I stood out like a sore thumb. I was the only white person around.
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📒buy out
📖Meaning
to buy somebody's share of a company or a partnership in order to take control of it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Many workers weren't happy when a group of new investors bought the majority shareholder out and took control of the company.
💬 My sister wants to buy out my share of the family business.
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📚a ballpark figure | a ballpark estimate
✍🏾Meaning
If you give a ballpark figure or a ballpark estimate, you give a number which you think is fairly close to the actual one.
❗️For example
🔸We don't know the exact cost, but a ballpark figure would be around six million dollars.
🔸I know you can't tell me exactly when it'll be finished, but can you give me a ballpark estimate?
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📒fill up (2)
📖Meaning
to fill someone's stomach with food
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Sam says there's nothing like a big bowl of hot porridge to fill you up in the morning.
💬 Whenever I visit my mum, she fills me up with all the things she made for us when we were kids.
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💠 bent 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
dishonest, corrupt
❕For example
🔺We always knew those cops were bent, but we've never had the evidence to prove it.
🔺Even though she'd been cheating on her taxes for years, Cathy didn't consider herself bent. She said everybody did it.
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📒 First things first
📖Meaning
1) Be patient: do things in the logical order. 2) Do the most important things before the less important things.
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