English Language

10 Jul 2023 06:43

💠 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 Jul 2023 20:51

📒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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07 Jul 2023 17:30

💠 dope (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a stupid person, a fool


❕For example

🔺How come those dopes who work in the U.S. Treasury didn't realise what was going on?

🔺Max says the problem with democracy is that there are too many dopes out there, and they'll only vote for someone they can relate to, meaning another dope.
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06 Jul 2023 12:39

📒 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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05 Jul 2023 05:30

📚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 alone 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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04 Jul 2023 05:36

📒 There's no such thing as a free lunch


📖Meaning
We cannot get something for nothing. We must pay for everything. Nothing in life is free.


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03 Jul 2023 09:04

📚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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02 Jul 2023 07:20

📒 Would you buy a used car from this man?


📖Meaning
Do you trust this man? I don't.


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01 Jul 2023 05:30

📚ring a bell


✍🏾Meaning
If something rings a bell, it sounds familiar or you think you've heard it before.


❗️For example

🔸The name rang a bell but I couldn't remember exactly where I'd heard it before.

🔸Does the name "Hunter S. Thompson" ring a bell?

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30 Jun 2023 11:56

📒 A just war is better than an unjust peace


📖Meaning
Fighting between countries for a fair and good cause is better than no fighting in a situation that is unfair.


Note: just (adj.) = based on what is fair or morally right

war (noun) = fighting or armed conflict between countries

unjust (adj.) = not based on what is fair or morally right

peace (noun) = quiet and tranquillity; freedom from war

Compare: "An unjust peace is better than a just war." - Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43BC)


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29 Jun 2023 11:28

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28 Jun 2023 18:47

💠 ripped (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
intoxicated, drunk, drugged


❕For example

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🔺Mike was drinking way too much at that party. He was totally ripped!


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27 Jun 2023 17:30

📒pull up (2)


📖Meaning
If a vehicle such as a car or a taxi pulls up, it stops.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬   I told the taxi driver to pull up outside the post office.

💬As the truck pulled up at the intersection, its brakes made a loud hissing sound.

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26 Jun 2023 17:50

💠 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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25 Jun 2023 17:30

📒go after (1)


📖Meaning
to chase and try to catch someone or something

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  After the guy had grabbed my wife's handbag I went after him, but he was too fast and he got away.

💬A lion won't go after an animal unless it's pretty sure it can catch it.

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09 Jul 2023 07:29

📒 Out of office, out of danger


📖Meaning
The implication is that people in high government or official jobs are not safe. They will be safe only when they leave their job.

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08 Jul 2023 09:07

📚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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06 Jul 2023 20:33

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05 Jul 2023 17:30

📒stop over


📖Meaning
to stop at a place and stay there for one or two days while on your way to somewhere else

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We're going to Vietnam on business, but we're stopping over in Hawaii for a couple of days on the way.

💬 I'm stopping over in Bangkok for one night on my way to Sydney.

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04 Jul 2023 17:47

💠 toffee-nosed 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
snobbish, pretentiously superior towards people of lower social class or income


❕For example

🔺Just ignore him. He's a toffee-nosed prat.

🔺Those fashion shows are full of toffee-nosed snobs showing off their gaudy trinkets and baubles.

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03 Jul 2023 19:20

📒mistake for


📖Meaning
to wrongly think that a person or thing is someone or something else

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Fake Gucci bags look real and can easily be mistaken for genuine Gucci bags.

💬 There's a guy who lives near here who often gets mistaken for David Beckham. He looks just like him.

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02 Jul 2023 21:42

💠 mug (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
the face


❕For example

🔺Hey Harvey! Were you at the Liverpool game on Saturday? I was watching it on TV and I'm sure I saw your mug in the crowd.

🔺Looks like Larry's growing a beard. Good idea if it means we don't have to see so much of his big ugly mug!


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01 Jul 2023 17:30

📒shut out (2)


📖Meaning
to stop yourself thinking about or feeling something that upsets you or hurts you

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 She still finds it difficult to shut out the memory of her grandmother's illness.

💬 The thought of losing her is unbearable, and no matter how hard I try, I just can't shut it out.

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30 Jun 2023 21:21

💠 veep 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
the vice president


❕For example

🔺If a president dies during his or her term, the veep takes over and becomes the president.

🔺What do you think about the Republican Party putting a woman on their ticket to run for veep?


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29 Jun 2023 19:10

📒die down


📖Meaning
If something dies down, it gradually becomes weaker in strength or lower in volume or magnitude.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬   The anger people felt about what the previous government had done to their country took a long time to die down.

💬The new president waited for the applause to die down before he began to speak.

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29 Jun 2023 11:10

📚feel the pinch


✍🏾Meaning
If you are feeling the pinch, you're finding it harder to survive on your income.


❗️For example

🔸Since the price of oil went up, lots of businesses have been feeling the pinch.

🔸Inflation has been pretty bad recently, so we've all been feeling the pinch.

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28 Jun 2023 09:30

📒 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.

Note: 'em (informal contraction) = them


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27 Jun 2023 05:30

📚under the weather


✍🏾Meaning
If you are under the weather, you're not feeling well.


❗️For example

🔸Hiroko's feeling a bit under the weather. He thinks he might have the flu.

🔸Sorry, but I don't think I'll be able to make it to work today. I'm feeling a bit under the weather

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26 Jun 2023 09:16

📒 Better the foot slip than the tongue


📖Meaning
It is better to take a bad step in walking than to say the wrong thing in talking. We can do a lot of damage when we say something by mistake. The elliptical nature of this saying may make it difficult to understand. The full version might be something like: "It is better that your foot should slip than that your tongue should slip."


Note: foot (noun): the end part of the leg on which we stand or walk | slip (verb): slide by accident | tongue (noun): large, movable fleshy part in the mouth that we use for talking and tasting

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25 Jun 2023 05:30

📚a pat on the back


✍🏾Meaning
You've given someone a pat on the back if you've told them they've done something well, or done a good job.


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