English Language

15 Jun 2017 08:12

Slang of the Day

💥hang | hang out

☑️Meaning: to spend time with

✨For example:

➖I'm goin' down the park to hang with my friends.

➖Hey, you girls. Why don't you hang out with me and the guys for a while?
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11 Jun 2017 14:58

Idiom of the Day

🔰an even break

🇺🇸American English
☑️Meaning: If you get an even break, you get a fair opportunity to succeed in your ambition or to achieve your goals.

✨For example:

🔹All Monica needs is an even break and she could be one of the country's top models.

🔹He says he's never had an even break in life and that's why he's never achieved much.

📝Variety: This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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09 Jun 2017 20:31

Idiom of the Day

📗get a word in edgeways | edgewise

☑️Meaning: If you can't get a word in edgeways, you can't say anything because someone else is talking so much.

✨For example:

🔹Cindy got so excited when she was talking that nobody else could get a word in edgeways.

🔹I'd go to the meetings more often if I could get a word in edgeways.

📝Note: The American form of this idiom is "to get a word in edgewise".
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07 Jun 2017 15:33

Idiom of the Day

🔰a necessary evil

☑️Meaning: If you say something is a necessary evil, you don't like it but you understand that it has to be accepted sometimes or it has to exist.

✨For example:

💥Sandra says money's a necessary evil. She thinks it causes many problems, but she can't imagine how the world could work without it.

💥My brother regards exercise as a necessary evil. He hates doing it, but he knows he has to do it if he wants to stay healthy.
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03 Jun 2017 13:46

Idiom of the Day

🔰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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30 May 2017 14:55

Slang of the Day

🔰meathead
Offensive

☑️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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28 May 2017 20:24

Slang of the Day

🔰jailbait
American and Australian English

☑️Meaning: someone below the legal age of consent

✨For example:

🔹He claims he had no idea the girl was jailbait, and insists that she told him she was nineteen years old.

🔹One of the greatest novels in the English language is about a man who falls for a girl even though he knows she's jailbait. It's called "Lolita".

💧Origin: From the fact that in many countries an adult having sexual contact with an underage partner can be given a jail sentence. The underage partner is "bait" that could lead to jail.

📍Variety: This slang term is typically used in American and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

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22 May 2017 20:17

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰end in

✨Meaning: to have a certain result at the end of something

💧For example:

end in sth 👉The two countries couldn't agree on how to solve the problem, so the negotiations ended in a stalemate.

end in sth 👉The U.S. government's policy of making alcohol illegal in the 1920's ended in failure and an increase in organised crime.
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18 May 2017 15:16

Slang of the Day

🔰pain | pain in the arse | pain in the backside
British and Australian English

☑️Meaning: someone or something that's annoying or troublesome

✨For example:

🔹Pete's new girlfriend is a real pain. She's got this annoying voice, and she never stops talking.

🔹These staff meetings are such a pain in the backside. I don't even know why we have to come.

📜Variety: This slang term is typically used in British and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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14 May 2017 14:52

Idiom of the Day

📜a quick fix
📍INFORMAL

☑️Meaning: If something is a quick fix, it's a quick and easy, but usually short-term, solution to a problem.

✨For example:

🔹Tania wants to lose weight, but she wants a quick fix like taking a pill instead of eating better and exercising more.

🔹I can tie your car's exhaust pipe up with a bit of wire, but it's just a quick fix. You'll have to get it fixed properly as soon as possible.
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12 May 2017 18:10

Phrase of the day

📜Can't complain
☑️We use this expression to reply to a question asking how something is, to say there are no big problems.

Written: Yes📍Spoken: Yes📍Formal: No📍Informal: Yes

💧Example 1
🅰️How are you these days? I haven't seen you for ages.
🅱️Can't complain. Still walking five miles a day and going to the gym.

💧Example 2
🅰️How's the course going?
🅱️Can't complain. I keep doing the homework..
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08 May 2017 12:43

Slang of the Day

🔰weirdo

☑️Meaning: a strange, eccentric or weird person

💧For example:

🔹Back when me and my friends were teenage punk rockers, my grandpa used to say we looked like "bloody weirdos".

🔸Have you ever seen the weirdos who go to those evangelical Christian meetings? They have fits and speak in tongues and play with snakes and do other weird stuff.
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02 May 2017 17:07

Slang of the Day

🔰riot

✔️Meaning: a very entertaining event or person

💧For example:

🔸We went down to Rio for the Mardi Gras and we had a great time. It was a riot!

🔸Theresa was a riot at the office Christmas party. She told some really funny stories and did some of the silliest dances you'll ever see.
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28 Apr 2017 20:17

Slang of the Day

🔴yokel
Offensive

💢Meaning: a simple, poorly-educated person from the countryside

💧For example:

🔹We used to see whole families of yokels come into town sometimes. They'd be wearing really old clothes, have terrible haircuts, and they'd speak in this weird accent that was hard to understand.

🔹Fran's mother used to say she'd give Fran to the yokels who lived up in the mountains if she was a bad girl.
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26 Apr 2017 20:41

Idiom of the Day

🔰cross that bridge when we come to it

💢Meaning: You can say "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" if someone mentions a problem that might occur in the future, but you want them to think about what's happening now instead.

〽️For example:

📌Martin asked what we'd do if our new company couldn't find good staff when we needed to expand, and I said we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

📌Jenny worries too much about things that might happen in the future, so people are always saying "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it" to her.
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14 Jun 2017 04:29

Idiom of the Day

🔰on the ball
INFORMAL

☑️Meaning: If you're on the ball, you're alert and you know what's going on around you.

✨For example:

🔹I didn't get much sleep last night so I'm not really on the ball today.

🔹My brother is always on the ball, so it's hard to trick him or catch him unawares.
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11 Jun 2017 06:07

Slang of the Day

🔰jab

☑️Meaning: an injection with a hypodermic syringe

✨For example:

▪️I went to see my doctor yesterday to get a flu jab.

▪️It's time for our kids to get another set of vaccination jabs. I'll take them to the clinic in the morning.
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09 Jun 2017 06:04

Phrasal Verb of the Day

💥end up

☑️Meaning: If you end up being somewhere, or doing something, it's because of decisions you've made in the past.

💧For example:

✨end up
🔹 If Jimmy keeps taking drugs, he'll end up in jail or dead.

✨end up doing sth
🔹 If you don't study hard, you could end up doing a job you don't like much.
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05 Jun 2017 15:43

Slang of the Day

🔰upchuck
🇺🇸American English

☑️Meaning: to vomit, throw up

✨For example:

🔘I ate so much chocolate cake that I nearly upchucked the lot right there.

🔘The last time Jimmy got drunk he upchucked all over the back seat of his friend's car. His friend wasn't too happy about it.

✅Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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01 Jun 2017 18:49

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰cross out

☑️Meaning: If you cross something out, you draw a line through it with a pen or a pencil, usually because it's wrong or is no longer necessary.

💧For example:

✨cross sth out
🔹If you make a mistake, cross it out and write down what you think is correct instead.

✨cross out sth
🔹When guests arrive, cross out their names on the guest list so that we know they're here.

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30 May 2017 14:46

Idiom of the Day

🔰the worse for wear

☑️Meaning: If something is the worse for wear, it has been damaged by being used a lot. If a person is the worse for wear, they don't feel well.

✨For example:

🔹Don't you think we should have the sofa recovered? It's looking a little the worse for wear.

🔹Tom looks a bit the worse for wear this morning. I bet he was out drinking with his buddies last night.
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24 May 2017 18:33

Idiom of the Day

🔰up to your neck | up to your eyeballs

☑️Meaning: If you're up to your neck in something, or up to your eyeballs in something, you've got too much of it and it's become a problem.

✨For example:

🔹I'm up to my neck in emails and I don't think I can get away at the moment.

🔹Christmas is the worst time at the animal shelter. We're always up to our eyeballs in stray dogs and cats.
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20 May 2017 07:26

Idiom of the Day

📗young at heart

☑️Meaning: Someone is young at heart if they still feel young even though they're getting old.

✨For example:

📍Terry's nearly seventy but he's still young at heart. He's always trying new things and going to new places.

📍No matter how old I get, I'll always be young at heart.
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16 May 2017 10:09

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔰root out

☑️Meaning: to uncover and punish criminals, especially those abusing positions of trust or authority

💧For example:

🔹root out sb ➡️The president has promised to root out corrupt politicians and send them to jail.

🔸root sb out ➡️The bank's investigation team targeted several workers suspected of stealing money, and it succeeded in rooting them out.

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12 May 2017 18:17

Slang of the Day

📗knuckle sandwich

☑️Meaning: a punch in the mouth

❄️For example:

🔹Vince turned around and said, "Shut up, pal, or you'll get a knuckle sandwich to chew on."

🔹After he'd punched the thief, the shopkeeper said, "Knuckle sandwiches are free, loser. But you gotta pay for that stuff in your pockets."
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10 May 2017 09:49

Idiom of the Day

🔰the cream of the crop

☑️Meaning: If something or someone is in the cream of the crop, they are among the best of a class of things or people.

💧For example:

🔹The cream of the crop of this year's high-school graduates will get into the best universities, as usual.

🔹We're only interested in the cream of the crop, so don't send us any second-rate samples.
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04 May 2017 16:43

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔘wind down

💢Meaning: If you wind something down, you gradually reduce it or end it.

〽️For example:

▫️wind down sth ◽️We're winding down production of gasoline-powered cars and increasing production of battery-powered cars.

▪️wind sth down ◾️Even if the army started winding the operation down tomorrow, it'd be another six months before all the troops had left.

✍️Note: "wind" is pronounced as in "wind the clock", not as in "the wind blew"
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30 Apr 2017 17:57

Phrase of the day

🔰Put your foot in it
✔️We use this to talk about when we say something embarrassing by mistake.

Written: No〽️Spoken: Yes〽️Formal: No〽️Informal: Yes

💧Example 1
🅰️I really put my foot in it with my boss this morning.
🅰️Really, what happened?
🅰️I accidentally told Mark about the surprise party.

💧Example 2
🅰️I really put my foot in it with Janet this morning.
🅱️What did you say?
🅰️I said I thought the new marketing idea was stupid and it was her idea.
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27 Apr 2017 21:56

Phrasal Verb of the Day

🔘live on

🔰Meaning: If you live on a certain amount of money, you spend that much on your usual living expenses.

💧For example:

🔹live on ▪️Are you sure a hundred dollars a week is enough to live on?

🔸live on sth ▪️How do people live on the old-age pension? It's not even enough to buy good food.
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24 Apr 2017 19:36

Phrasal Verb of the Day

➡️butt out⬅️
🇺🇸American English INFORMAL

☑️Meaning: If you want to tell someone quite forcefully to mind their own business, you can tell them to butt out.

✔️For example:

butt out ♦️I was having an argument with my girlfriend when Pete told us to cool it, so I told him to butt out.

butt out ♦️My sons were having a fight about something when their older sister tried to get them to stop. They both got angry with her and told her to butt out.

💢Variety: This phrasal verb is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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