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06 Jun 2023 05:30
📒model on
📖Meaning
to use something or someone as an example to copy when making something or doing something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The Indian legal system was modelled on the British system.
💬 Many young singers and dancers still model themselves on Michael Jackson.
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05 Jun 2023 05:31
💠 lardass 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an overweight person, esp. one with large buttocks
❕For example
🔺Madge has become such a lardass since she stopped exercising and started eating too much.
🔺Bill and Jill get on really well. They're both lardasses who love watching TV all day and eating snacks non-stop.
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04 Jun 2023 07:36
📒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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03 Jun 2023 05:31
💠 turps 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
alcohol, alcoholic drinks
❕For example
🔺My mate Barry was on the turps for years before he started going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
🔺When I saw Bruce, I said "Geez mate, you don't look too hot. Get stuck into the turps last night, did ya?"
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01 Jun 2023 05:31
📚dirt cheap
✍🏾Meaning
You can say something is dirt cheap if it costs very little money.
❗️For example
🔸Be careful when you buy dirt cheap clothes. They could shrink easily or the colours could run when you wash them.
🔸Kevin is very tight with his money. If he has to buy someone a present, it's always something dirt cheap.
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31 May 2023 05:30
📒 If you can't beat 'em, join 'em
📖Meaning
If you cannot win against someone or something, it may be easier or better to join forces with them.
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30 May 2023 09:26
📚friends in high places
✍🏾Meaning
If you have friends in high places, you know people in powerful positions in business or government.
❗️For example
🔸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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29 May 2023 05:30
📒 Ignorance of the law is no excuse
📖Meaning
It is no defence to say that we didn't know that something we did was illegal.
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28 May 2023 08:58
📚a nest egg
✍🏾Meaning
If you have a nest egg, you have money put away for the future.
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🔸When Indira inherited some money from her grandpa, she didn't spend it. She decided it was time she had a nest egg so she put it into an investment fund.
🔸Poor old Bill. He married a girl while he was in some foreign country and she got her hands on his nest egg, and now he's back here - with nothing.
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27 May 2023 05:30
📒 Better safe than sorry
📖Meaning
We should be careful in a dangerous situation. It is better to stay safe than to have an accident (and be sorry about it). The full "grammatical" sentence would be: "It is better to be safe than to be sorry."
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26 May 2023 11:24
📚give the green light
✍🏾Meaning
If you give something the green light, you give permission for it to be done, or allow it to happen.
❗️For example
🔸The government has given the green light to our tree-planting project, so we can go ahead and start organizing things.
🔸As soon as our CEO gives the new product the green light, we'll start planning production.
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24 May 2023 17:30
📒keep up (2)
📖Meaning
If you keep up with someone, you stay at the same level and don't fall behind them.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Rafael can run very fast. When we go running together, it's hard for me to keep up.
💬 Jimmy takes a long time to learn new things, and sometimes he can't keep up with other kids in his class.
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23 May 2023 17:30
💠 take 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
stolen money or goods
❕For example
🔺The take from the bank robbery was about ten thousand dollars.
🔺The cops have caught the thieves, but they're still looking for the take.
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05 Jun 2023 17:30
📚a bad hair day
✍🏾Meaning
If you're having a bad hair day, everything seems to be going wrong for you.
❗️For example
🔸Poor Sue's in a terrible mood. I think she's having a bad hair day.
🔸I knew it was going to be a bad hair day when my car wouldn't start.
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04 Jun 2023 18:00
📒 Tell me who you go with and I'll tell you who you are
📖Meaning
This proverb suggests that like minds stick together. If I know who your friends are, I know what your character is.
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03 Jun 2023 18:07
📚a roller coaster | a roller-coaster ride
✍🏾Meaning
You can say an experience is a roller coaster, or a roller-coaster ride, if it involves many emotional highs and lows, or really good times alternating with really difficult times.
❗️For example
🔸The movie follows a young guy's emotional roller-coaster ride as he tries to come to terms with being gay in a small town in Australia.
🔸Eric writes about the roller coaster of rock and roll, with the highs of success and fame followed by the lows of drug addiction and depression.
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02 Jun 2023 17:30
📒 The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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01 Jun 2023 17:30
📒knock down (1)
📖Meaning
If something like a building or a wall is knocked down, it is destroyed on purpose.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The old hotel was knocked down so that a new one could be built.
💬If we knocked the tool shed down, we could put a vegetable garden there instead.
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31 May 2023 17:31
💠 funk 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
(in phrase be in a funk) an unhappy, depressed mood
❕For example
🔺He's been in a real funk since his girlfriend left him.
🔺Everyone in the office has been in a funk since we heard that our company might be going bankrupt.
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30 May 2023 17:30
📒turn into
📖Meaning
to change from one thing into another
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Isn't it incredible how caterpillars turn into butterflies, and tadpoles turn into frogs? Nature really is amazing!
💬 This guy is a great businessman. He turned a small company into a huge global corporation.
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29 May 2023 17:30
💠 tight-ass 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
1) sby who spends as little money as possible, a miser
2) sby who's repressed and very strict about following society's rules
❕For example
🔺Our boss is a real tight-ass; we never get a Christmas bonus.
🔺Don't be such a tight-ass, Rob. Let yourself have some fun for a change.
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28 May 2023 17:30
📒pull in
📖Meaning
If a train, a truck or a car pulls in, it arrives somewhere.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The train you want will be pulling in on platform 9.
💬 A truck pulled in to the yard and the driver jumped out.
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27 May 2023 17:30
💠 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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26 May 2023 17:30
📒run on (1)
📖Meaning
to use a particular type of fuel or a particular power source
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Why did it take so long for the big car companies to develop and market cars that run on electricity instead of fossil fuels?
💬 My new mobile phone runs on a battery that lasts for a month before it needs recharging.
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25 May 2023 17:30
💠 upbeat 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
bright, cheerful
❕For example
🔺The convention should have a lively, upbeat mood, so we need to start off with some upbeat music and an uplifting speech.
🔺The movie tells an upbeat story about starting a new life in a new country and finding love and happiness there.
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25 May 2023 09:49
📒 Look upon death as a going home
📖Meaning
We may consider dying to be a kind of returning to house and family.
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24 May 2023 05:30
📚vice versa
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "vice versa" when what you have just said is also true in the opposite, or reverse, order.
❗️For example
🔸He doesn't believe anything she says, and vice versa. They really don't trust each other.
🔸During the cold war, the Americans tried to spy on the Russians, and vice versa.
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23 May 2023 11:35
📒 Opportunity seldom knocks twice
📖Meaning
Take any opportunity or chance when it comes - it may not come again.
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