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06 Apr 2023 17:30
📒miss out
📖Meaning
to miss the chance to get something you'd like to have, or do something you'd like to do
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We tried to buy tickets to the Nick Cave concert, but they'd sold out. If we'd tried to buy them earlier, we wouldn't have missed out.
💬We all feel sorry for Tim. He missed out on a spot in the Olympic team because he injured his foot during the selection trials.
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05 Apr 2023 05:30
📒 Facts are stubborn things
📖Meaning
We cannot avoid the truth, even when it is not what we want to hear or express.
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04 Apr 2023 05:31
💠 up 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
full of positive feelings; hopeful
❕For example
🔺The lively music and colourful lighting made everyone feel positive and up.
🔺Jane's been having a hard time lately, but she's feeling up today.
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03 Apr 2023 05:30
📒 Where there's muck there's money
📖Meaning
There is money to be made in dirt and dirty jobs. For example, many people have made fortunes by processing rubbish or waste materials.
Note: Another version of this saying is: "Where there's muck there's brass."
Origin: This saying originated in England in or before the 19th century. The 17th-century book "A collection of English proverbs" (Rev. John Ray) includes a similar idea: "Muck and money go together."
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02 Apr 2023 05:30
💠 knackered (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
severely damaged
❕For example
🔺My car is knackered. I was driving home last night when it coughed and spluttered and started smoking, and then it groaned and died.
🔺My printer was fine yesterday, but when I turned it on this morning, nothing happened. I think it's knackered.
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01 Apr 2023 05:30
📒 Zeal, when it is a virtue, is a dangerous one
📖Meaning
According to this saying, "good zeal" cannot exist. It seems that zeal is inherently dangerous. When zeal is not a virtue, by definition it is not good. When zeal is a virtue, according to this saying it is dangerous, which is also not good. This saying relies heavily on paradox for its effect.
Note: zeal (noun) = enormous energy or enthusiasm for a cause or an objective
virtue (noun) = quality regarded as morally good in a person
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31 Mar 2023 05:30
💠 ratty (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
easily annoyed or upset, irritable
❕For example
🔺Laura got drunk last night, and now she's got a hangover and she feels a bit ratty.
🔺I had a really bad day at work today, so sorry if I seem a little ratty tonight.
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30 Mar 2023 05:30
📒 The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
📖Meaning
Many women have won a man's love by cooking delicious meals for him. They fed his stomach and found love in his heart.
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29 Mar 2023 17:31
📒patch up (2)
📖Meaning
to mend ties or repair a relationship after a disagreement or a dispute
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My sister and her husband argue a lot, but they always patch things up before long.
💬 The leaders of the two countries patched up their differences and avoided a war.
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28 Mar 2023 17:30
📚quite a bit of | quite a lot of
✍🏾Meaning
If you've got quite a bit of something, or quite a lot of something, you have a fairly large amount of it.
❗️For example
🔸George made quite a bit of money in his first business, but instead of retiring young, he went on to make quite a lot more.
🔸If you want to learn to play the piano, you'll need to spend quite a lot of money on lessons, and spend quite a bit of time practising.
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27 Mar 2023 17:30
📒rule out
📖Meaning
If you rule something out, you don't think it's possible.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Sally will probably win, but don't rule out Carol. She's got a good chance too.
💬 We thought she might have cancer, but after seeing the latest test results, I think we can rule that out.
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26 Mar 2023 17:30
📚bite your tongue | hold your tongue
✍🏾Meaning
If you bite your tongue, or hold your tongue, you force yourself not to say something you really want to say.
❗️For example
🔸I wanted to tell Carlos he was being stupid, but I bit my tongue and just sat there.
🔸You're going to have to learn to hold your tongue instead of saying whatever comes into your head.
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25 Mar 2023 16:30
📒put forward (1)
📖Meaning
to offer an idea, an opinion, a suggestion, etc. for other people to consider
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 He put forward an interesting argument, but no-one was really convinced by it.
💬 If you have any ideas or suggestions, please feel free to put them forward and they'll be given our full consideration.
💬 Many of the suggestions that have been put forward are excellent.
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24 Mar 2023 16:30
📚around the clock
✍🏾Meaning
If something occurs around the clock, it goes on all day and all night.
❗️For example
🔸I have to finish this report by Tuesday, so I'll be working around the clock until I get it done.
🔸What the young people of this town need is a drop-in centre that's open around the clock.
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06 Apr 2023 05:30
💠 oddball 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a strange or eccentric person (n.) | strange, weird (adj.)
❕For example
🔺Our new accountant is a real oddball. He's always squeezing this little rubber ball, and he even takes it into the toilet!
🔺My girlfriend took me to see one of those oddball European movies she likes. I can never understand them.
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05 Apr 2023 17:30
📚back to square one
✍🏾Meaning
If you have to go back to square one, you have to stop and start again, usually because something isn't working as well as expected.
❗️For example
🔸We were going to start the new company next month, but it's back to square one now that Omar has changed his mind about investing in it.
🔸After they lost the election, the Liberal Party had to go back to square one and come up with some new policies and some new ideas.
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04 Apr 2023 17:30
📒lose out
📖Meaning
If you lose out, you fail to benefit from something that others are benefitting from.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Thanks to my stockbroker, I've lost out big time. He told me to sell all my telecom shares - and now they're worth a fortune!
💬 The Education Ministry has lost out again in this year's budget because the government needs the money to pay for the war.
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03 Apr 2023 17:31
📚a white lie
✍🏾Meaning
If you tell a white lie, you say something that isn't true in order to be polite or so as not to hurt someone's feelings.
❗️For example
🔸Sometimes it's better to tell a white lie than to tell someone a painful truth.
🔸I really didn't want to go to my boss's dinner party, so I told a white lie and said I had to go to a friend's wedding party that night.
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02 Apr 2023 17:30
📒order up (1)
📖Meaning
to issue an order for something to be done, usually in relation to the government or the military
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 After the press released details of torture in military prisons, the President ordered up a full report on the situation.
💬Let's pray that no leader ever decides it's necessary to order up a nuclear attack.
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01 Apr 2023 17:30
📚a head start
✍🏾Meaning
If you have a head start, you start something ahead of others or with an advantage over others.
❗️For example
🔸If you're born into a rich family, and you've had a good education, you're lucky enough to have had a head start in life, so don't waste it.
🔸Marylin's beauty and natural grace gave her a big head start in the modelling and acting business.
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31 Mar 2023 17:30
📒bring about
📖Meaning
If you bring about something, you cause it to happen or you make it happen.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The greed of a few people in the financial world brought about the global financial crisis.
💬 The president wanted reform of the healthcare system but he wasn't sure how to bring it about.
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30 Mar 2023 17:30
📚nerves of steel
✍🏾Meaning
If you have nerves of steel, you are very brave and not many things make you scared or nervous.
❗️For example
🔸I could never work on one of those high-rise building sites where you walk along beams about twenty stories up. You'd need nerves of steel to do that job.
🔸Those people who sing the national anthem before one of those big sporting events must have nerves of steel.
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29 Mar 2023 05:31
💠 eye-popping 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
amazingly large or impressive
❕For example
🔺Last year Microsoft made an eye-popping twenty billion dollars.
🔺The opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics was such an eye-popping spectacle.
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28 Mar 2023 05:30
📒 Neither a borrower nor a lender be
📖Meaning
Do not borrow things. Do not lend things.
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27 Mar 2023 05:36
💠 sharp 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
well-dressed
❕For example
🔺Bernie looks real sharp in his new suit.
🔺If Glen spent a bit more on clothes, he could look really sharp.
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26 Mar 2023 05:30
📒 Rules are made to be broken
📖Meaning
This saying implies that there are times when we should think for ourselves and not obey every rule blindly.
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25 Mar 2023 04:30
💠 racket (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a dishonest or illegal activity that makes money
❕For example
🔺The mafia has been running a protection racket in our neighbourhood for at least eighty years.
🔺A gang that runs a people-smuggling racket has been busted by the federal police.
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24 Mar 2023 04:30
📒 Nothing is impossible to a willing heart
📖Meaning
Someone who is eager, keen and determined can achieve anything.
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