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22 May 2023 17:30
📒read into
📖Meaning
to believe you've found more meaning in what someone says or does than others have found
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 You're reading too much into what he said. I don't think he meant to insult you.
💬 A lot can be read into what someone says, but it doesn't mean that it's all true.
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21 May 2023 17:30
💠 zip (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
nothing, zero
❕For example
🔺Most people around here don't know zip about economics, but they know when things aren't going too well.
🔺The final score was three goals to zip.
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20 May 2023 17:30
📒level with
📖Meaning
If you level with someone, you tell them the truth about something.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Why won't you level with me and tell me what's really going on?
💬 I'll level with you, Heather. My brother's a lovely guy, but he's got a problem with gambling.
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19 May 2023 17:30
💠 hooked 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
addicted, obsessed
❕For example
🔺Nobody who uses hard drugs like heroin or cocaine thinks they'll ever get hooked, but many do, and it can ruin their life.
🔺My son realised he was hooked on video games when he stayed up all night playing them, and then failed an important exam.
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17 May 2023 19:26
📚a voice (crying) in the wilderness
✍🏾Meaning
You're a voice in the wilderness, or a voice crying in the wilderness, if you're expressing an unpopular opinion or insight.
❗️For example
🔸When Galileo stated that the sun was the centre of the solar system, he was a voice crying in the wilderness. Most people thought he was crazy or evil, or possibly both.
🔸Clara says petrol engines should be banned because of the damage they cause to the environment. She says most people laugh when she says this, and she feels like a voice in the wilderness.
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16 May 2023 18:23
📚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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15 May 2023 17:31
📒keep from (1)
📖Meaning
If something or someone keeps you from doing something, it means you can't do it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Are you busy? I don't want to keep you from your work.
💬 Most parents find it very difficult to keep their kids from eating unhealthy snacks.
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14 May 2023 07:03
📚learn the ropes
✍🏾Meaning
If you learn the ropes, you learn how to do a job properly, or how things work and how to get things done.
❗️For example
🔸Ruth will teach you what to do, and it shouldn't take you too long to learn the ropes.
🔸It can take quite a while for a new lawyer to learn the ropes in a big legal firm.
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12 May 2023 17:31
📒see to
📖Meaning
If you see to something, you take responsibility for it and make sure it's done.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The police chief promised he'd see to it that whoever was behind the attacks would be caught and punished.
💬 That's a nasty cut. You'd better go to the hospital and have it seen to.
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11 May 2023 17:30
📚a raw deal
✍🏾Meaning
If you think that you got a raw deal, you think you weren't treated fairly or as well as other people.
❗️For example
🔸Doctors in small hospitals in country towns get a raw deal. They earn less, and usually work longer hours, than doctors in big-city hospitals.
🔸If it wasn't for the transport workers union, drivers would still be getting low wages and a raw deal all round.
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11 May 2023 05:30
📒 Soon learnt, soon forgotten
📖Meaning
Something that is easy and quick to learn is easy to forget.
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10 May 2023 05:30
💠 empty-nester 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a parent whose children have grown up and left home
❕For example
🔺After spending many years raising their children, Kevin and Joan are now empty-nesters after their youngest daughter went to live with some friends.
🔺We're still getting used to being empty-nesters. The house seems so quiet all the time.
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08 May 2023 17:31
📒 He who pays the piper calls the tune
📖Meaning
The person who pays a musician can decide what music he wants to hear. And the person who pays for any service has the right to say exactly what he wants.
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07 May 2023 05:30
💠 poop 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
excrement (n.) | to defecate (v.)
❕For example
🔺Oh no! I've stepped in some smelly dog poop.
🔺We were driving home when my six year old son said, "Daddy, I need to poop ... badly."
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22 May 2023 05:31
📚read between the lines
✍🏾Meaning
When you read between the lines you try to understand what someone implies, but doesn't openly state, when they say or write something.
❗️For example
🔸I got a letter from Robyn and she isn't happy. She didn't say anything but I could tell by reading between the lines that something's wrong.
🔸A good writer doesn't tell the reader everything directly but leaves it up to the reader to figure things out for themselves by reading between the lines.
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21 May 2023 05:30
📒 Brevity is the soul of wit
📖Meaning
The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.
Note: brevity (noun): shortness of time; use of few but exact words | soul (noun): the spiritual part of something; the essence of something | wit (noun): lively, keen intelligence; ability to use words creatively and for humour
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20 May 2023 05:30
📚keep an eye on
✍🏾Meaning
If you keep an eye on someone, you make sure you know what they're doing.
❗️For example
🔸I'm a bit worried about Hannah's health so could you keep an eye on her while I'm away.
🔸The media has promised to keep an eye on the new government and report anything that seems suspicious.
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18 May 2023 17:30
📒 Variety is the spice of life
📖Meaning
Monotony is bad for us. We need plenty of change. It adds interest to our lives, just as spice adds interest to food.
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18 May 2023 05:30
📒knock back (1)
📖Meaning
to take a drink, usually alcoholic
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Every day after work, Steve and his mates knock back a few beers.
💬 The bartender poured Amy a whisky soda and she knocked it back and asked for another one.
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17 May 2023 09:01
💠 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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16 May 2023 08:15
📒 The greater the sinner, the greater the saint
📖Meaning
1) If a bad person can become good, a very bad person can become very good. Someone with great energy for doing bad, may, when he chooses, apply it equally to doing good.
2) Converts are the most zealous. In a day-to-day sense, for example, someone who has given up smoking may preach more about the virtues of not smoking than someone who never smoked.
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14 May 2023 18:54
💠 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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13 May 2023 17:30
📒 If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
📖Meaning
An employer who pays low wages will have bad staff.
Note: peanut (noun) = a seed like a hard pea, typically eaten by monkeys | peanuts (noun) = a very small sum of money |
pay peanuts (verb) = pay very low wages | monkey (noun) = a small to medium-sized, human-like animal living in trees in tropical countries
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12 May 2023 05:30
💠 KO | kayo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a knockout, especially in boxing (n.) | to knock someone out, usually with a punch (v.)
❕For example
🔺Three of the boxers won their fights with a kayo, and the rest won on points.
🔺The fight was stopped after Tony KOed his opponent in the fourth round.
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10 May 2023 17:30
📒talk over
📖Meaning
to discuss a situation with someone, usually before making a decision
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I'd like to talk it over with my family first.
💬 Before deciding whether to take the job or not, Sandra wanted to talk it over with her husband.
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09 May 2023 17:30
📚(your) hands are tied
✍🏾Meaning
You can say your hands are tied if you're prevented from doing something that you'd normally have the power or the authority to do.
❗️For example
🔸The president says he'd like to spend more on schools in poor districts, but says his hands are tied by what he calls "budgetary restrictions".
🔸I'd really like to give you the contract, Mr Gambino, but my hands are tied because of those laws on giving contracts to people with criminal records.
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07 May 2023 17:30
📒go after (2)
📖Meaning
to try to get something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Are you planning to go after Alex's job when he retires?
💬 If Rupert thinks there's a chance to take over a profitable company, he'll go after it with everything he's got.
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06 May 2023 17:30
📚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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