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14 Nov 2023 18:45
📚weather a storm
✍🏾Meaning
If you weather a storm, you survive a dangerous event or deal with a difficult situation.
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🔸Everyone waited to see if the president could weather the storm caused by his son's arrest for using illegal drugs.
🔸Poor Mandy had to stand there and weather the storm as her boss shouted insults at her for letting him forget something.
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13 Nov 2023 16:01
📒 Crime doesn't pay
📖Meaning
If you engage in illegal activities, you will not make money in the long run.
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12 Nov 2023 18:23
📚under a cloud
✍🏾Meaning
If someone is under a cloud, they are suspected of having done something wrong.
❗️For example
🔸Ever since the rumours of corruption started, the president has been under a cloud and he probably won't win another election.
🔸Henry has been under a cloud since the money disappeared and he bought a new car.
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11 Nov 2023 18:48
📒 There is truth in wine
📖Meaning
When people are drunk, what they say is often true. People often speak the truth when they lose their self-control.
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09 Nov 2023 07:25
💠lousy🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
very bad, of very poor quality
❕For example
🔺We saw a really lousy movie last night. It was a total waste of time.
🔺I felt lousy all morning, but after lunch I felt a bit better.
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08 Nov 2023 09:27
💠bull dyke🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a lesbian (see note below) who is very manly in appearance and behaviour
❕For example
🔺My sister is a bull dyke and she's in a gang of women who ride big motorbikes and wear leather jackets.
🔺We saw all sorts of interesting people in the Gay Mardi Gras parade, including drag queens, leather guys and bull dykes.
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07 Nov 2023 10:10
💠indie🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
rock music not released by major music labels
❕For example
🔺The indie scene began back in the late 70's and early 80's with bands like Joy Division and The Slits.
🔺Steve reckons the best indie band of all time is Radiohead.
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06 Nov 2023 08:04
📒fall apart
📖Meaning
If something falls apart, it breaks into pieces or parts start falling off.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My old shoes are falling apart, so I'll have to get some new ones.
💬 If the model plane falls apart, get some stronger glue and put it together again.
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05 Nov 2023 09:33
💠once-over🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a quick inspection or search
❕For example
🔺Before paying for the car, I had a mechanic give it a quick once-over to make sure it was in good condition.
🔺The army recruits were given the once-over by a doctor. He checked their heart, lungs, eyesight, hearing, reflexes and their private parts.
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04 Nov 2023 08:41
📒shoot up
📖Meaning
to quickly increase in size, number or level
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Oil prices shot up by nearly forty percent when war was declared.
💬 When news of the oil strike got out, the company's shares shot up in value.
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02 Nov 2023 19:11
📚the icing on the cake | the frosting on the cake
✍🏾Meaning
If something is the icing on the cake, or the frosting on the cake, it makes a good situation or a good result even better.
❗️For example
🔸The fifty thousand dollars the government will give to every athlete who wins a gold medal in the Olympics will be the icing on the cake for them.
🔸I was happy just to get my book published, so winning the young writer's prize as well is the frosting on the cake.
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01 Nov 2023 19:33
📒 Give a thief enough rope and he'll hang himself
📖Meaning
A bad person will sooner or later be the cause of his own downfall.
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31 Oct 2023 19:11
📚from time to time
✍🏾Meaning
If you do something from time to time, you do it occasionally, but not very often.
❗️For example
🔸We usually stay home on Friday nights, though from time to time we'll go to see a movie.
🔸Most of the artists we represent these days are nothing special, but from time to time we'll get one with real talent and originality.
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30 Oct 2023 18:31
📒 Nothing is impossible to a willing heart
📖Meaning
Someone who is eager, keen and determined can achieve anything.
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14 Nov 2023 07:56
💠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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13 Nov 2023 05:42
📒let out (3)
📖Meaning
to rent a room or a building to somebody
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 She makes some extra money by letting out her spare room to a student.
💬 Why don't you let the house out when you're not living there?
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12 Nov 2023 07:27
💠runs🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
(as in the runs) a case of diarrhea
❕For example
🔺I've had the runs all day. It must be the seafood we ate last night.
🔺Gillian had everyone screaming with laughter when she told us about her bus trip across India while she had the runs.
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11 Nov 2023 07:50
📒go through (2)
📖Meaning
to live through a bad time or a difficult situation
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 He just went through one of the most difficult periods in his life.
💬 We've been going through a recession for a year or so, but hopefully the economy will improve soon.
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09 Nov 2023 17:37
📚a done deal
✍🏾Meaning
A done deal is an agreement or a decision that is final.
❗️For example
🔸It's a done deal so we can go ahead and start planning the details.
🔸No-one knew about it, but the contract has been a done deal since the senator spoke to the minister last month.
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08 Nov 2023 19:10
📒 The pen is mightier than the sword
📖Meaning
This proverb suggests that written material like books or poetry has more influence than fighting or war. We may also understand from it that ideas (as often set down in writing) are more effective than violence.
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07 Nov 2023 19:01
📚make a killing
✍🏾Meaning
If you make a killing, you make a lot of money from a sale or a deal of some sort.
❗️For example
🔸My aunt made a killing when she bought some shares in a company as soon as they were issued, and sold them a few weeks later for three times what she paid.
🔸Lots of people made a killing when property values went so high back in the nineties.
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06 Nov 2023 17:24
📒 The wish is father to the thought
📖Meaning
Our opinions or beliefs are often influenced by our desires and hopes. The phrase "father to" is used in the sense of parentage: the thought is born from the wish.
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05 Nov 2023 18:56
📚an axe to grind (2)
✍🏾Meaning
If you have an axe to grind, you have a strong opinion about something and you express this opinion whenever you can.
❗️For example
🔸Billy's had this axe to grind about globalisation recently and he's always going on about it.
🔸These people always seem to have an axe to grind and whenever someone interviews them they see it as a chance to push their ideas.
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04 Nov 2023 17:13
📒 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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02 Nov 2023 07:27
💠funky (2)🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
having strong dance rhythms
❕For example
🔺Madonna's new single has some really funky beats.
🔺We went to a club last night and the DJ played some of the funkiest tracks we've heard in a while.
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01 Nov 2023 09:58
📒factor in
📖Meaning
to include a certain item when calculating or planning something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Don't forget to factor in transport costs when you make the quotation.
💬 You need to factor the political situation in when deciding on a country to invest in.
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31 Oct 2023 08:35
💠 earner 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a good source of money
❕For example
🔺Renting out their houses for a couple of weeks in summer became a nice little earner for families on many Greek islands.
🔺Frank though that buying and selling shares would be a good little earner for him, but unfortunately it didn't work out that way.
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30 Oct 2023 11:13
📒pull out (1)
📖Meaning
If you pull out of something you're participating in, like a competition or a deal, you stop participating.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Phil was leading the tournament, but he had to pull out after injuring his knee.
💬 Chuck was forced to pull out of the race for President when his campaign funds ran out.
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