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21 Jul 2023 11:54
📒go after (2)
📖Meaning
to try to get something
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Are you planning to go after Alex's job when he retires?
💬 If Rupert thinks there's a chance to take over a profitable company, he'll go after it with everything he's got.
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20 Jul 2023 17:34
📚talk turkey
✍🏾Meaning
If you talk turkey, you discuss something seriously, usually to do with business or money.
❗️For example
🔸After the owner had shown him around the apartment, Shane decided it was just what he wanted, so he said, "OK, I'm interested. Let's talk turkey."
🔸I started to say something about the deal, but Mr Hamilton said, "Not now, my boy. We never talk turkey at the dinner table."
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19 Jul 2023 17:58
📒 Give credit where credit is due
📖Meaning
The implication is that even if we are reluctant to praise someone, we should do so if the praise is deserved.
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18 Jul 2023 19:48
📚like a fish out of water
✍🏾Meaning
You feel like a fish out of water if you're surrounded by people who are different to you, and it's making you feel a little uncomfortable.
❗️For example
🔸I was the only black person in a church full of white people, and I felt like a fish out of water at first. But lots of people came up and talked to me after the service, and I soon felt quite at home.
🔸Sayoko travels to a lot of unusual places. She says feeling like a fish out of water is sometimes interesting.
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17 Jul 2023 20:12
📒 “The secret of discipline is motivation. When a person is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.”
📖Meaning
When you intrinsically have desire toward something you'll do it at any cost.
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16 Jul 2023 19:46
📚out-of-date (1)
✍🏾Meaning
Something is out-of-date if it is old and therefore no longer useful or no longer accurate.
❗️For example
🔸Don't waste money on old textbooks because they could be out-of-date and the information might no longer be correct.
🔸I didn't know the timetable was out-of-date. I got it off the internet so I thought it'd be new, not an old one from the 1990's.
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15 Jul 2023 19:34
📒 Silence is golden
📖Meaning
This saying emphasizes the value of saying nothing.
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14 Jul 2023 17:43
📚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.
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13 Jul 2023 19:35
📒 Variety is the spice of life
📖Meaning
Monotony is bad for us. We need plenty of change. It adds interest to our lives, just as spice adds interest to food.
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13 Jul 2023 10:03
📒insist on
📖Meaning
If you insist on something, you say that you must have it or it must be done.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We used to sell on credit, but after not being paid a few times we now insist on payment in advance.
💬Our youngest son insists on putting tomato sauce on just about everything he eats.
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12 Jul 2023 07:40
💠 funk 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
(in phrase be in a funk) an unhappy, depressed mood
❕For example
🔺He's been in a real funk since his girlfriend left him.
🔺Everyone in the office has been in a funk since we heard that our company might be going bankrupt.
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11 Jul 2023 12:22
📒pull in
📖Meaning
If a train, a truck or a car pulls in, it arrives somewhere.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The train you want will be pulling in on platform 9.
💬 A truck pulled in to the yard and the driver jumped out.
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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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20 Jul 2023 17:45
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20 Jul 2023 08:40
💠 empty-nester 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a parent whose children have grown up and left home
❕For example
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🔺We're still getting used to being empty-nesters. The house seems so quiet all the time.
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19 Jul 2023 07:02
📒keep up (2)
📖Meaning
If you keep up with someone, you stay at the same level and don't fall behind them.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Rafael can run very fast. When we go running together, it's hard for me to keep up.
💬 Jimmy takes a long time to learn new things, and sometimes he can't keep up with other kids in his class.
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18 Jul 2023 10:54
💠 quad (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a quadruplet, one of four babies born together from the same mother
❕For example
🔺I'm teaching a set of quads in my kindergarten class this term, and I can't tell them apart. All four look exactly the same!
🔺After getting fertility treatment, Jill gave birth to a set of four healthy quads. She's been home with them for one week and she's already exhausted!
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17 Jul 2023 09:00
📒pull in
📖Meaning
If a train, a truck or a car pulls in, it arrives somewhere.
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💬 The train you want will be pulling in on platform 9.
💬 A truck pulled in to the yard and the driver jumped out.
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16 Jul 2023 11:07
💠 whack 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to murder, esp. within the context of organised crime
❕For example
🔺There's a contract out to whack Tony B. because he'd whacked Jimmy S., and he'd whacked Jimmy because Jimmy had whacked Paulie T., and so on.
🔺If those Mafia informers don't get protection, they'll be whacked for sure.
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15 Jul 2023 07:27
📒slip up
📖Meaning
to make a small mistake, usually because of carelessness
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I'm usually pretty reliable, but sometimes I slip up, like everybody.
💬If our goalkeeper hadn't slipped up, we would have won the match.
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14 Jul 2023 05:41
💠 louse up 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to spoil something or make it fail
❕For example
🔺She really wants this job, so I hope she doesn't louse up the interview.
🔺Don't worry. He won't louse it up. He's been doing these deals for years.
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12 Jul 2023 17:31
📚on your last legs | on its last legs
✍🏾Meaning
If you say you're on your last legs, it can mean you're close to exhaustion, or it can mean you're close to death. If a thing is on its last legs, it's close to breaking or wearing out.
❗️For example
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🔸My old printer is on its last legs. It's time I got a new one.
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11 Jul 2023 17:42
📒 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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10 Jul 2023 18:29
📚wheeling and dealing
✍🏾Meaning
If you're wheeling and dealing, you're involved in the complex world of making deals and exchanging favours in business or politics, or both.
❗️For example
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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
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If you think that you got a raw deal, you think you weren't treated fairly or as well as other people.
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06 Jul 2023 20:33
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