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18 May 2024 10:33
📒hold down
📖Meaning
to stop something from rising by pressing down on it or putting a heavy object on it
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The vet's assistant held down our dog while the vet gave her the injection.
💬 I held the board down with my foot while I hammered it in place.
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16 May 2024 21:28
📚chickens come home to roost
✍🏾Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.
❗️For example
🔸Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.
🔸The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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15 May 2024 22:00
📒 Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
📖Meaning
You'll be safer if you know more about your enemies than you know about your friends. Look after your enemies better than you look after your friends.
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14 May 2024 22:56
📚mend your ways
✍🏾Meaning
If you mend your ways, you improve your behaviour and stop doing things that cause trouble.
❗️For example
🔸Terry had better mend his ways or Rosie will leave him forever.
🔸It took him a long time to mend his ways, but these days Jack is a good father and husband.
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13 May 2024 22:46
📒 Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
📖Meaning
1. Speaking about the Devil may invite him to come. 2. We often say "Talk of the devil!" (or "Speak of the devil!") when somebody that we have just been speaking about suddenly appears.
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12 May 2024 13:02
📚verbal diarrhoea
✍🏾Meaning
If someone has verbal diarrhoea, they can't stop talking.
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🔸Janice has a real bad case of verbal diarrhoea. It's like she's afraid of silence and has to keep talking to block it out.
🔸I don't know if you could say he's got verbal diarrhoea, but Alan sure does talk a lot.
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11 May 2024 12:05
📒 The road to hell is paved with good intentions
📖Meaning
1) People who believe they are doing good can end up doing bad (the law of unintended consequences). 2) There is no value in simply planning to do good if you don't actually do it.
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09 May 2024 10:04
📒stir up
📖Meaning
to cause trouble among people or to cause bad feelings to arise
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The company says environmentalists are stirring up trouble by telling people the factory will pollute their river.
💬 You'll stir a lot of bad feeling up if you say their son died of a drug overdose. They want people to think it was a heart attack.
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08 May 2024 08:45
💠 fib 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a small, harmless lie (n.) | to tell a small, harmless lie (v.)
❕For example
🔺I can tell you're fibbing because you're trying not to smile!
🔺We told our youngest child a little fib about where our pet dog went when he died. She was too young to understand the truth.
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07 May 2024 12:41
📒have out
📖Meaning
If you have something out, like a tooth or an organ, it's removed from your body.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Her dentist said she couldn't save the tooth, so she'll have to have it out.
💬 My son's having his appendix out later today.
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06 May 2024 07:59
💠 axe | ax (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to dismiss someone from a job (v.) | dismissal from a job (n.)
❕For example
🔺Because of the economic downturn, many companies will have to axe a lot of their workers.
🔺Anyone who creates too many problems for the boss will get the ax.
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05 May 2024 09:22
📒do in
📖Meaning
to cause someone to feel very tired or worn out
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 That walk up the mountain really did me in. I can hardly move!
💬 Paula looks like she's been done in by all that running. I guess she isn't used to it.
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01 May 2024 21:34
📒 Neither a borrower nor a lender be
📖Meaning
Do not borrow things. Do not lend things.
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30 Apr 2024 20:30
📚fill somebody's shoes
✍🏾Meaning
If you can fill somebody's shoes, you can replace them and do what they do.
❗️For example
🔸Greg was a great captain for the team so it'll be difficult to find someone who can fill his shoes now that he's retiring.
🔸The general manager is training his son to fill his shoes when he passes the business on to him.
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16 May 2024 10:28
💠 jock 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an athlete, sportsman
❕For example
🔺Betty's new boyfriend is one of the jocks on the football team.
🔺In our high school, most of the guys are either jocks or geeks.
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15 May 2024 09:06
📒get away with
📖Meaning
to do something illegal or immoral and not get caught or punished
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Janet got away with shoplifting clothes the first few times, but she soon got caught and now she's stuck with a police record for the rest of her life.
💬 Bobby nearly got away with the robbery, but he spent the money too quickly and local police who knew him got suspicious.
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14 May 2024 11:14
💠 ecofreak 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a person with strong views on the importance of protecting the natural environment
❕For example
🔺Before becoming Minister for the Environment, Peter was a rock star and an ecofreak.
🔺All these ecofreaks came and lay down in front of the bulldozers to stop them from clearing the forest.
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13 May 2024 08:20
📒yearn for
📖Meaning
to want something very much
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Even though I left England a long time ago, I still yearn for the beauty of the English countryside.
💬 Paula is still getting over the breakup with her boyfriend. She's still yearning for the sound of his voice and the smell of his hair.
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11 May 2024 22:53
💠 OD 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to take an overdose of a drug
❕For example
🔺If someone OD's, call an ambulance immediately. After calling, give the person mouth-to-mouth resuscitation if they've stopped breathing.
🔺It's very easy to OD and die from taking a narcotic drug like heroin. This is because narcotics are such powerful drugs that taking a dose which is just a little bit stronger than usual can kill a person.
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08 May 2024 22:41
📚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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07 May 2024 22:49
📒 Share and share alike
📖Meaning
Give everyone an equal portion.
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06 May 2024 21:07
📚get to the bottom of
✍🏾Meaning
If you get to the bottom of something, you find out its real cause or the true story behind it.
❗️For example
🔸The police don't know who did the robbery yet, but they promised to get to the bottom of it.
🔸I'm not sure how a mistake like this could happen, but I'm determined to get to the bottom of it and make sure it never happens again.
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05 May 2024 21:20
📒 Money is the root of all evil
📖Meaning
According to this saying, all immorality and wickedness is caused by money. This saying is a misquotation, and the original version ("the love of money is the root of all evil") implies that all immorality and wickedness is caused by people loving money, not by money itself.
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04 May 2024 13:42
📚a drop in the ocean
✍🏾Meaning
If an amount is a drop in the ocean, it's a very small portion of the amount that's needed.
❗️For example
🔸Our government's sending a thousand tons of food, but that's just a drop in the ocean compared to what's needed.
🔸I know twenty dollars is just a drop in the ocean, but if everyone gave that much it'd make a big difference.
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02 May 2024 12:25
💠 dirty 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
obscene, pornographic
❕For example
🔺Randy was very embarrassed when his mother found the dirty magazines he kept under his mattress.
🔺People used to get dirty movies and magazines from adult shops or from mail-order companies, but now everyone sees the same stuff online.
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01 May 2024 12:57
📒kick out
📖Meaning
If somebody is kicked out of a place, they are forced to leave.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Ali was too afraid to tell his parents that he was gay because he knew his father would kick him out.
💬 If you get drunk and make trouble, you'll be kicked out of the bar.
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30 Apr 2024 11:22
💠 honky 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a derogatory term in black American slang for a white person
❕For example
🔺When we were visiting the Apollo Theater in Harlem in New York, a woman passing us on the street said, "What are you honkies doin' round here?"
🔺I have a lot of black American friends, and they all say they hate racist language, including anti-white words like "honky".
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