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29 Apr 2024 13:55
📒invite around
📖Meaning
If you invite somebody around, you invite them to your home for a meal, or a party, or a game of cards, etc.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I've invited Bob and Jenny around for dinner on Sunday night. Would you and Carol like to come as well?
💬 Why don't we invite some people around for lunch next week?
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28 Apr 2024 10:22
💠 ump 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
umpire
❕For example
🔺The umps have to make difficult decisions, and they usually get them right.
🔺"What's the matter with you, ump? Lost your seeing-eye dog, have ya?"
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27 Apr 2024 09:44
📒run up
📖Meaning
If you run up a bill or a debt, you get goods or services on the understanding that you'll pay for them later.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 How did they run up such a huge bill at the restaurant? Did they buy the place?
💬 She ran all these debts up while travelling in Europe, and now it'll take her years to pay them off.
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25 Apr 2024 21:17
📚up for grabs
✍🏾Meaning
If something is up for grabs, it's available for anyone who wants to try to get it.
❗️For example
🔸Do you remember when all the best website URLs were still up for grabs? Anyone could get one just by being the first person to claim it.
🔸There are some great prizes up for grabs in their latest competition.
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24 Apr 2024 22:45
📒 All truths are not to be told
📖Meaning
Some truths are better left unspoken. It is not always necessary to repeat something even though it be true.
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23 Apr 2024 21:35
📚beat around the bush | beat about the bush
✍🏾Meaning
If you beat around the bush, or beat about the bush, you don't say something directly, usually because you don't want to upset the person you're talking to.
❗️For example
🔸I had trouble telling Pedro he'd lost his job. I started beating around the bush and talking about one door closing and another door opening.
🔸Stop beating about the bush. Just tell me what's happened!
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22 Apr 2024 23:08
📒 Even the prayers of an ant reach to Heaven
📖Meaning
God hears all living beings.
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21 Apr 2024 23:04
📚set your sights on
✍🏾Meaning
If you set your sights on something, or set your sights on doing something, it becomes the target of your ambition or the object of your attention.
❗️For example
🔸Stanley has set his sights on coaching Liverpool, so he'll start getting to know people who have influence in the club.
🔸Microsoft has set its sights on one of the biggest search engine companies, so I wouldn't be surprised if the company's shares go up.
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20 Apr 2024 20:26
📒 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
Origin: This proverb is based on the words of Polonius in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (1564-1616):
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief...
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18 Apr 2024 08:15
💠 pig (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a police officer
❕For example
🔺Dominic says the pigs always give him a hard time because he's a young black guy and he likes wearing good clothes and lots of jewellery. They think he's a drug dealer.
🔺If Frank finds out that Ian's been talking to the pigs, he'll beat the crap out of him.
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17 Apr 2024 11:27
📒come in (1)
📖Meaning
to enter a room or a building
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I knocked on the door, and then heard her shout, "Come in!"
💬 He came in and sat down.
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16 Apr 2024 07:24
💠 kook 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a strange or eccentric person
❕For example
🔺There's this kook in my apartment building with snake tattoos on his face and he keeps these giant pythons as pets.
🔺Why did Margaret marry a kook like that guy Jim? He thinks he's some sort of Indian holy man or something.
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15 Apr 2024 08:00
📒wait around
📖Meaning
If you have to wait around for something, you have to wait a long time for it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Why do we always have to wait around when we have an appointment with a doctor or a dentist?
💬 Drug addicts spend most of their time waiting around for dealers to come with the drugs they need. What a boring life it must be!
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14 Apr 2024 10:39
💠 narc | nark 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a narcotics officer, a police officer working in drug trade suppression
❕For example
🔺The narcs raided the dealer's apartment after being tipped off by his neighbours.
🔺There are a lot of narks working at the airport.
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28 Apr 2024 21:15
📚change your tune
✍🏾Meaning
If you change your tune, you change your opinion about something or your attitude towards someone.
❗️For example
🔸At first Bill was against selling the rights to his book, but he changed his tune when he realized how much money he could make.
🔸Kelly was quite rude to me at first, but she changed her tune when someone mentioned how wealthy I was.
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27 Apr 2024 22:01
📒 Brevity is the soul of wit
📖Meaning
The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.
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25 Apr 2024 08:29
💠 rubber 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a condom
❕For example
🔺It's really important to use a rubber whenever you have sex. It'll stop you from getting nasty diseases like AIDS and gonorrhea.
🔺Cindy says vending machines that sell rubbers should be in schools, universities, department stores and public toilets.
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24 Apr 2024 09:42
📒rub out (2)
📖Meaning
to kill somebody
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The mafia will rub out anyone who talks to the police.
💬 Drug dealers rubbed him out because he'd cheated them.
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23 Apr 2024 09:45
💠 smart-arse 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a person who's annoying because they try to show how clever and knowledgeable they are (n.) | having an annoying way of trying to seem clever (adj.)
❕For example
🔺Greg sounds like a bit of a smart-arse when he's in a discussion because he states his opinion as if it's the last word on a topic.
🔺We don't need some smart-arse ecology professor coming out here and telling us how to run our farms.
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22 Apr 2024 08:34
📒fall over
📖Meaning
If someone falls over, they fall to the ground.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My little girl was running along when she fell over, so I picked her up and gave her a hug.
💬 Be careful when you're walking in the forest. You can get seriously hurt if you fall over.
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21 Apr 2024 09:52
💠 veggy | veggie (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a vegetable
❕For example
🔺The meal was OK but we would've liked more veggies with the meat.
🔺It's really important to eat lots of fruit and veggies.
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20 Apr 2024 08:18
📒weigh in (1)
📖Meaning
to be weighed before participating in a sport like boxing or horse-racing
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The jockeys are weighing in for the first race right now.
💬 What time do you have to weigh in for the fight?
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18 Apr 2024 21:41
📚quaking in your boots
✍🏾Meaning
If you're quaking in your boots, you are very frightened.
❗️For example
🔸This big, ugly dog was growling at me and baring its teeth. I was quaking in my boots, I can tell you!
🔸Our sergeant was a scary guy. He could make a new army recruit quake in his boots just by looking at him.
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17 Apr 2024 20:49
📒 Beware of a silent man and still water
📖Meaning
A large expanse of water that is still and does not move is often deep and dangerous. We should be careful of it. In the same way, we should be careful with a person who does not talk much.
Note: beware (verb): be cautious; be careful | still (adj.): not moving
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16 Apr 2024 20:21
📚a whale of a time
✍🏾Meaning
If you have a whale of a time, you have a great time and really enjoy yourself.
❗️For example
🔸I went to a karaoke club with my friends last night and we had a whale of a time. It was great!
🔸Janet said she had a whale of a time at the party. I wish I'd gone too now.
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15 Apr 2024 22:39
📒 Many a true word is spoken in jest
📖Meaning
Something said as a joke may often contain wisdom and truth.
Note: jest (noun): a joke; something said for amusement or comedy
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14 Apr 2024 23:39
📚throw someone in at the deep end
✍🏾Meaning
If you throw someone in at the deep end, you give them a difficult job to do, or a serious problem to deal with, before they have the knowledge or experience for it.
❗️For example
🔸In her first overseas teaching job, Kathy was thrown in at the deep end with a class of 30 kids and no training, no books, and no guidelines.
🔸Our manager thinks the best way to introduce new staff to the job is to throw them in at the deep end and see how they go.
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13 Apr 2024 21:18
📒 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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