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06 Sep 2023 19:01
💠 sickie 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a day taken off work after calling in sick when one is actually well
❕For example
🔺Paul throws a sickie at least once a month. I wonder if his boss has noticed that he's always "sick" when the weather is beautiful?
🔺Robbo reckons the surf's awesome today, so I'm chuckin' a sickie and headin' down the coast.
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05 Sep 2023 07:50
📒hold out for
📖Meaning
to wait until you get what you want, especially when negotiating
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The workers held out for a better wage deal and, after another round of negotiations, they got it.
💬 We held out for a better contract, and we got it after some hard bargaining.
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04 Sep 2023 08:06
💠 gnarly 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
extreme (in either a good or bad sense)
❕For example
🔺That was a real gnarly spill, man! You sure you're OK?
🔺Hey dude, that concert was gnarly! Whooa!!
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03 Sep 2023 07:42
📒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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02 Sep 2023 06:36
💠 bugger off 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to go away
❕For example
🔺As soon as they'd finished eating dinner, the kids buggered off and left us to clean up the kitchen.
🔺After I'd hailed a taxi some guy ran up and tried to get in, so I grabbed his arm and told him to bugger off.
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31 Aug 2023 05:57
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30 Aug 2023 06:03
📚safe and sound
✍🏾Meaning
If you are safe and sound, nothing has harmed you even though you could have been in danger.
❗️For example
🔸It was a dangerous journey but luckily we all got back safe and sound.
🔸The package took a long time to get here, but it arrived safe and sound in the end.
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29 Aug 2023 08:10
📒 Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise
📖Meaning
It is good for us to sleep early in the evening and wake early in the morning.
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28 Aug 2023 09:28
📚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
🔸You'll need to be good at wheeling and dealing if you want to do well in politics.
🔸The amount of wheeling and dealing that's needed to sort out a contract with the local government is incredible.
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27 Aug 2023 08:56
📒 All that glitters is not gold
📖Meaning
The attractive exterior of something is not a good indicator of its real nature. It may look valuable, but not be valuable.
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26 Aug 2023 08:36
📚a bad hair day
✍🏾Meaning
If you're having a bad hair day, everything seems to be going wrong for you.
❗️For example
🔸Poor Sue's in a terrible mood. I think she's having a bad hair day.
🔸I knew it was going to be a bad hair day when my car wouldn't start.
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25 Aug 2023 10:45
📒 Opportunity seldom knocks twice
📖Meaning
Take any opportunity or chance when it comes - it may not come again.
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23 Aug 2023 21:39
💠 beat it 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
go away
❕For example
🔺Some kids were smoking in the carpark, but when one of them saw a teacher coming they grabbed their stuff and beat it.
🔺When Peter came back from the bathroom, some guy was talking to Leanne. Peter said, "Beat it, pal! She's with me."
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07 Sep 2023 08:28
📚a new lease on life
✍🏾Meaning
If someone has a new lease on life, they have a new enthusiasm for living.
❗️For example
🔸After recovering from her illness, Kathy had a new lease on life and made lots of plans for the future.
🔸When my uncle quit drinking it gave him a new lease on life and he started doing things he hadn't done for years.
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05 Sep 2023 19:03
📒 As soon as man is born he begins to die
📖Meaning
The process of dying starts at birth. This saying reminds us of our own mortality, whatever our age.
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04 Sep 2023 20:07
📚eat humble pie
✍🏾Meaning
If you eat humble pie, you admit that you are in the wrong and behave apologetically.
❗️For example
🔸Jim had to eat humble pie after we proved that what he'd said was wrong.
🔸Some politicians are so arrogant that they won't eat humble pie even when it's clear they've made a mistake. They just say they were "misinformed".
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03 Sep 2023 17:55
📒 Patience surpasses learning
📖Meaning
1) The ability to wait for a long time without getting angry is even better than education.
2) the capacity to accept delay without getting upset will achieve more than study in the end
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02 Sep 2023 19:11
📚weather a storm
✍🏾Meaning
If you weather a storm, you survive a dangerous event or deal with a difficult situation.
❗️For example
🔸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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31 Aug 2023 18:26
📒 None so deaf as those who will not hear
📖Meaning
Nobody is deafer than the person who decides he does not want to listen. Often used in reference to prejudice and intolerance.
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31 Aug 2023 05:46
📒live on
📖Meaning
If you live on a certain amount of money, you spend that much on your usual living
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Are you sure a hundred dollars a week is enough to live on?
💬 How do people live on the old-age pension? It's not even enough to buy good food.
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29 Aug 2023 20:23
💠 vocab 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
vocabulary
❕For example
🔺Vladymir says the thing he enjoys more than anything else in the whole world is studying English vocab. Vladymir also likes joking.
🔺Don't forget you'll be having a slang vocab test next week.
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28 Aug 2023 19:41
📒turn out (2)
📖Meaning
to have a certain outcome, or to end in a certain way
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We weren't sure if moving to Japan was a good idea at first, but we're very pleased with the way things have turned out.
💬 Don't worry. I'm sure everything will turn out fine in the end.
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27 Aug 2023 20:03
💠 ratty (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
easily annoyed or upset, irritable
❕For example
🔺Laura got drunk last night, and now she's got a hangover and she feels a bit ratty.
🔺I had a really bad day at work today, so sorry if I seem a little ratty tonight.
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26 Aug 2023 19:38
📒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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25 Aug 2023 21:05
💠 meltdown 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a disastrous collapse, esp. of a market or an economy
❕For example
🔺Investing in the stock market is always risky, as many people learnt in the 2008 market meltdown.
🔺If there's an economic meltdown, many companies will go out of business and many people will lose their jobs.
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24 Aug 2023 18:58
📒do about
📖Meaning
If you do something about a problem, you do something to fix it or solve it.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 My printer won't work and I'm not sure what to do about it.
💬What do you think we should do about our company's falling market share?
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24 Aug 2023 08:50
📚(have) egg on your face
✍🏾Meaning
You will have egg on your face if you've said or done something wrong, and it's made you feel embarrassed or stupid.
❗️For example
🔸Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.
🔸The police force had egg on its face because they arrested and beat up an innocent guy who had the same name as a suspect they were looking for.
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23 Aug 2023 12:46
📒 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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