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16 Nov 2024 10:20
📒go back
📖Meaning
to return to a place, a person, a condition, etc.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I'm feeling much better, thanks. I should be able to go back to work tomorrow.
💬 Sandra left her passport at home, so she had to go back and get it.
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14 Nov 2024 08:57
📒Good wine needs no bush
📖Meaning
Something of good quality does not need to be advertised.
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13 Nov 2024 10:53
💠 app 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a computer software application
❕For example
🔺Check out this killer app I downloaded last night!
🔺Karen found this amazing app that makes you look really good in photos. It's great for Facebook photos and stuff.
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12 Nov 2024 06:12
📒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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11 Nov 2024 09:58
💠 grinding 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
dancing in a sexually arousing way
❕For example
🔺When Mario and Carla starting grinding on the dance floor, the others stood back and cheered them on.
🔺Pete says the thing that drives him totally wild is when a girl pulls him close and starts grinding on him.
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10 Nov 2024 08:45
📒Say well or be still
📖Meaning
If you cannot speak good of someone or something, then it is better not to speak.
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09 Nov 2024 10:19
💠 goof off | goof around 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
waste time, play around
❕For example
🔺Whenever the teacher leaves the classroom she tells her students to keep working, but as soon as she leaves they start goofing off.
🔺 It's the kids who goof around in college instead of taking their studies seriously who'll be in trouble when they try to join the workforce.
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07 Nov 2024 08:58
📒catch on (1)
📖Meaning
If something catches on, it becomes popular.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Mobile phones took a while to catch on, but now everybody's got one.
💬 More and more people are learning how to meditate. It's really catching on.
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06 Nov 2024 10:17
📚worth its weight in gold
✍🏾Meaning
If something is worth its weight in gold, it is extremely valuable or extremely useful.
❗️For example
🔸 Your grandmother's stories are worth their weight in gold, so you should try to record them or write them down.
🔸A personal recommendation from someone like Professor Clark is worth its weight in gold. You'll be able to get a job anywhere you like with that.
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05 Nov 2024 09:15
📒smell of
📖Meaning
to have a particular smell
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Steve says that his clothes always smell of cigarettes after a night at the pub.
💬 His girlfriend was suspicious when he came home smelling of perfume.
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04 Nov 2024 11:13
📚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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03 Nov 2024 10:00
📒drop in
📖Meaning
If you drop something in somewhere, you stop to leave it there and then keep going.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 If you're going past the post office, could you drop these letters in for me?
💬 I'll drop the report in on my way to the office.
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02 Nov 2024 09:58
📚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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31 Oct 2024 10:36
💠 ace (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
very skillful, very good at something
❕For example
🔺My little brother was never interested in sports when he was young, but now he's an ace basketball player.
🔺 If you want to be an ace fighter, you should learn hand-to-hand combat skills like karate or Muay Thai.
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30 Oct 2024 10:30
📒 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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13 Nov 2024 20:53
📚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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12 Nov 2024 20:47
📒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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11 Nov 2024 18:54
📚leave well enough alone | let well enough alone
✍🏾Meaning
If you leave well enough alone, or let well enough alone, you don't try to improve or change something that's already good enough.
❗️For example
🔸 The kids seem happy enough now so let's just leave well enough alone and forget about finding a new school for them.
🔸Unless there's a problem, I'd suggest you just let well enough alone and let your staff get on with their work.
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10 Nov 2024 19:21
📒cross off
📖Meaning
to remove a name or an item from a list by drawing a line through it
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Cross off all the people you've already contacted.
💬 Cross each item off once you've got it, OK?
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09 Nov 2024 20:24
📚burn your bridges | burn your boats
✍🏾Meaning
You have burned your bridges, or burned your boats, if you were in a situation and you then left it after doing something that made it impossible to go back there.
❗️For example
🔸 If you insult the boss when you leave, you'll be burning your bridges and you'll never be able to go back to work there again.
🔸I knew I'd be burning my boats if I dropped out of school, but I didn't care because I was determined to be a photographer.
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06 Nov 2024 21:03
📒No man is an island
📖Meaning
Human beings do not (or should not) live in isolation. All people are interconnected. A person is not like an island, standing alone and surrounded by sea.
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05 Nov 2024 19:38
💠 app 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a computer software application
❕For example
🔺Check out this killer app I downloaded last night!
🔺 Karen found this amazing app that makes you look really good in photos. It's great for Facebook photos and stuff.
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04 Nov 2024 19:51
📒Death pays all debts
📖Meaning
Dying cancels everything, including anything that we owe to other people.
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03 Nov 2024 20:31
💠 bloody 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an intensifying expletive used before an adjective, adverb or noun; very, really; total, complete
❕For example
🔺It's bloody hot in here. And now the bloody air conditioner won't work. Bloody hell!
🔺 You'd have to be a bloody idiot to vote for a party that's just ruined the economy.
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02 Nov 2024 20:53
📒 A bad penny always turns up
📖Meaning
Bad or nasty people have a habit of showing up or returning.
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30 Oct 2024 19:48
📒set back (2)
📖Meaning
If something has set you back fifty dollars, it has cost you fifty dollars.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 His new TV must have set him back at least $2,000.
💬 How much would a ticket to The Bahamas set me back?
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29 Oct 2024 21:53
📚whet your appetite
✍🏾Meaning
If something whets your appetite, it makes you want something, or it stimulates your desire for something.
❗️For example
🔸My wife has been listening to reggae music all day. She heard a song by Bob Marley on the radio this morning, and it really whetted her appetite for reggae.
🔸Those ads on TV really whet my appetite for pizza. I even ordered one once, just because of the ad. And I wasn't even hungry!
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