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20 Apr 2023 17:30
📒hand back
📖Meaning
to give something back to someone by hand
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If the immigration official doesn't hand back your passport straight away, don't worry. He's probably just seeing which countries you've visited.
💬 If someone gives you their business card, don't hand it back. Keep it and give them yours in return.
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19 Apr 2023 17:30
📚the gift of the gab | the gift of gab
✍🏾Meaning
If you've got the gift of the gab, or the gift of gab, you have the natural ability to talk in a way that people find entertaining or persuasive.
❗️For example
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All good salespeople have the gift of the gab, so people trust them and believe whatever they say.
🔸If you want to be a politician, you'll do much better if you were born with the gift of gab.
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18 Apr 2023 17:30
📒dying for
📖Meaning
If you're dying for something, you really feel like it or you want it very much.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I'm dying for a cup of tea. Let's have a break and I'll make one.
💬 After working non-stop for a month, Charles said he was dying for a day off so he could stay home and do nothing.
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17 Apr 2023 17:30
📚elbow grease
✍🏾Meaning
If something needs elbow grease, it needs a lot of hard physical work.
❗️For example
🔸We'll need a bit more elbow grease to get these walls really clean.
🔸The secret of a really shiny car is turtle wax and elbow grease.
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16 Apr 2023 17:30
📒slip up
📖Meaning
to make a small mistake, usually because of carelessness
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I'm usually pretty reliable, but sometimes I slip up, like everybody.
💬If our goalkeeper hadn't slipped up, we would have won the match.
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15 Apr 2023 17:30
📚a matter of life and death
✍🏾Meaning
If something is a matter of life and death, it's extremely important and it could involve someone's survival.
❗️For example
🔸Education about HIV and AIDS is a matter of life and death. If people aren't told to protect themselves with condoms, they could die from the disease.
🔸Getting someone to hospital quickly after an accident or a heart attack is a matter of life and death. Just a few minutes can make all the difference.
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14 Apr 2023 17:30
📒pull down (2)
📖Meaning
to lower one's pants or trousers
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My doctor told me to pull down my jeans so he could examine my leg.
💬 Molly pulled her pants down and showed us the new tattoo on her bottom.
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13 Apr 2023 05:30
📒 The Devil sometimes speaks the truth
📖Meaning
1) Sometimes what Satan says is true, to make us more ready to believe his lies. 2) Don't believe everything at face value. Be aware that liars can use the truth to trick us.
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12 Apr 2023 05:30
💠 kickback 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a payment made, often secretly or illegally, to someone who has helped to arrange a deal or a job
❕For example
🔺Several corrupt politicians were arrested for getting kickbacks from companies that were given huge government contracts.
🔺We'll have to pay a $50,000 kickback to the school's principal if we want to get the job of building their new assembly hall.
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11 Apr 2023 05:30
📒 Fortune knocks once at every man's door
📖Meaning
We all get at least one good opportunity in life; everybody has the opportunity to be successful in life.
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10 Apr 2023 05:30
💠 quarterback 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to lead and make decisions
❕For example
🔺We need someone who can quarterback the sales team when they go to trade fairs.
🔺Who's going to quarterback Monday's staff meeting?
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09 Apr 2023 05:30
📒 Opportunity seldom knocks twice
📖Meaning
Take any opportunity or chance when it comes - it may not come again.
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08 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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21 Apr 2023 05:30
📒 Least said soonest mended
📖Meaning
When we do or say something bad to someone, a long apology and discussion does not help. In such a case, the less we say the better.
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20 Apr 2023 05:33
💠 ute 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a pickup truck
❕For example
🔺After shooting two kangaroos, Bruce threw them into the back of his ute and drove back to town.
🔺Nearly every farmer in Australia owns a ute.
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19 Apr 2023 06:30
📒 A good payer is master of another's purse
📖Meaning
Someone who is known to always pay exactly as promised can borrow money from other people at any time.
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18 Apr 2023 06:00
💠 meathead 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a stupid person
❕For example
🔺How did a meathead like that guy get elected to represent the people in his state?
🔺I was watching the tennis yesterday and some meathead yelled out just as Rafael was serving. The security guys found him and threw him out.
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17 Apr 2023 05:30
📒 Seeing is believing
📖Meaning
The idea here is that we usually think something is true when we see it with our own eyes. We have to see something before we can accept its real value, or that it exists at all.
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16 Apr 2023 05:42
💠 gasbag 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a person who talks too much
❕For example
🔺Are you sure we should invite Betty? She's such a gasbag that no-one else will have a chance to say anything.
🔺My wife's friend Gillian is such a gasbag. I swear, from the moment she arrives until the moment she leaves, she talks non-stop.
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15 Apr 2023 05:30
📒 Give credit where credit is due
📖Meaning
The implication is that even if we are reluctant to praise someone, we should do so if the praise is deserved.
Note: credit (noun) = public praise or acknowledgment
due (adj.) = merited; deserved
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14 Apr 2023 05:30
💠 ivories (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
piano keys
❕For example
🔺Lay down a groove on those skins, my man, and I'll start tinklin' the ivories when the baby's rockin'.
🔺And that's Mr. Ron Carter on double bass, Mr. Wayne Shorter on saxophone, and the cool cat on the ivories over there is Mr. Joe Zawinul!
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13 Apr 2023 17:30
📚know where you stand
✍🏾Meaning
If you know where you stand, you know exactly where you fit in a social or work situation, or in someone's life.
❗️For example
🔸Nobody bothered to ask Ken for his opinion, so he says he now knows where he stands in the company.
🔸Shelley didn't even invite me to her party, so I know where I stand with her now.
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12 Apr 2023 17:30
📒print out
📖Meaning
to make a printed copy of a document
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Could you print out the contract and leave it on my desk, please?
💬 Print a test copy out and let me check it before you send the file to the printers.
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11 Apr 2023 17:30
📚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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10 Apr 2023 17:30
📒send for
📖Meaning
to ask for someone to come to you, or to ask for something to be sent to you
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If someone gets hurt, send for an ambulance and a doctor straight away.
💬 After her car broke down, Lisa sent for a tow truck to come and take it to a garage.
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09 Apr 2023 17:30
📚face the music
✍🏾Meaning
If someone has to face the music, they have to accept the consequences of doing something wrong.
❗️For example
🔸To avoid facing the music and accepting his punishment for doing something bad, our little boy will tell lies with the skill of a well-trained actor.
🔸Henry stole some money and bought a car, and when he realised he'd have to face the music he drove across the border to escape.
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08 Apr 2023 17:30
📒die out
📖Meaning
If something like a species of animal or a language is dying out, it is disappearing and could soon be lost forever.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Several languages will die out soon if more people don't start learning them and speaking them.
💬 Some people believe polar bears could die out within twenty or thirty years because of global warming.
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07 Apr 2023 17:30
📚friends in high places
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If you have friends in high places, you know people in powerful positions in business or government.
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🔸You'll need friends in high places if you want to get to the top.
🔸Martin mightn't be the most brilliant man, but he'll do well because he's got plenty of friends in high places.
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