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23 Sep 2024 22:37
📚jobs for the boys
✍🏾Meaning
If you say "jobs for the boys" you're referring to the fact that people in positions of power sometimes use their power to give jobs to their friends or family members.
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🔸Henry deserved the position, but it was a case of jobs for the boys, as usual, and one of the boss's old school friends got it instead of Henry.
🔸 The new government has promised to stop the old system of jobs for the boys when it comes to appointing departmental heads.
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22 Sep 2024 22:35
📒pass on
📖Meaning
If you pass something on, you give it to another person after receiving it yourself.
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💬 You should wear a mask over your mouth so that you don't pass on the disease.
💬 After taking your piece of cake, pass the plate on to the next person.
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21 Sep 2024 22:11
📚cook the books | cook the accounts
✍🏾Meaning
If someone cooks the books, or cooks the accounts, they keep inaccurate accounts for a business, usually in order to pay less tax.
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🔸Their accountant was charged with cooking the books, and now he's in jail.
🔸I found this website that shows you how to cook the accounts, but I'd never try doing it.
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18 Sep 2024 12:11
📒 Still waters run deep
📖Meaning
Some rivers have rough surfaces with waves. That's usually because the water is shallow and there are rocks near the surface. But deep rivers have no rocks near the surface and the water is smooth and still. "Still waters run deep" means that people who are calm and tranquil on the outside, often have a strong, "deep" personality.
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17 Sep 2024 10:46
💠 airhead 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a silly, stupid person
❕For example
🔺Joel says only airheads watch the shopping channel.
🔺Just because I'm a blonde woman who likes shopping and going to the gym some people call me an airhead, and I'm not!
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16 Sep 2024 09:08
📒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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14 Sep 2024 20:51
💠 indie 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
rock music not released by major music labels
❕For example
🔺The indie scene began back in the late 70's and early 80's with bands like Joy Division and The Slits.
🔺 Steve reckons the best indie band of all time is Radiohead.
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11 Sep 2024 22:32
📚x-rated
✍🏾Meaning
If something is x-rated, it is classified as pornographic and therefore not suitable for young people.
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🔸One of the first x-rated movies to get a general release was "Last Tango in Paris" with Marlon Brando.
🔸I checked the brower's history and saw that my teenage son had been looking at x-rated websites, as all healthy, normal boys do.
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10 Sep 2024 11:14
📒knock out (1)
📖Meaning
If you are knocked out, you are hit so hard that you lose consciousness.
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💬 He slipped over in the bathroom and knocked himself out.
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09 Sep 2024 11:22
📚let your hair down
✍🏾Meaning
If you let your hair down, you enjoy yourself by doing whatever you feel like doing and not worrying about what other people might think.
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🔸It's hard to imagine Francine letting her hair down and having fun, but Helen said she's like another person when she's not at work. She's funny and lively and she knows how to have a good time.
🔸Come on, George! It's Saturday night so why don't you stop being so serious and sensible and let your hair down for a change?
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08 Sep 2024 09:54
📒head off (1)
📖Meaning
to leave a place
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We'll have to head off early if we want to get there by midday.
💬 I'd better head off. It's getting late and I've got an early start in the morning.
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07 Sep 2024 08:40
📚water under the bridge | water over the dam
✍🏾Meaning
You can say a problem or an experience is water under the bridge, or water over the dam, if it happened in the past and it no longer affects the present to a degree that is worth worrying about.
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🔸 I wish people would stop talking about my problems with the law. It all happened a long time ago and it's water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned.
🔸Rhonda says her marriage to Mark is water over the dam and it's time to move on with her life.
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05 Sep 2024 08:43
💠 ripped (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to have well-defined muscles
❕For example
🔺After I'd been working out in the gym for a year or so, people started saying, "You're gettin' ripped, dude."
🔺 We watched a show about prisons last night, and I swear every single guy in there was ripped.
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23 Sep 2024 11:03
💠 ripped (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to have well-defined muscles
❕For example
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🔺 We watched a show about prisons last night, and I swear every single guy in there was ripped.
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22 Sep 2024 12:58
📒 A man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks
📖Meaning
This somewhat sexist saying suggests that men age better than women.
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21 Sep 2024 11:53
💠 mosh pit 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an area in front of the stage at a rock concert where people dance energetically, or "mosh"
❕For example
🔺The best concert I've ever been to was a Nirvana gig in the early nineties when Kurt Cobain jumped into the mosh pit.
🔺 Keep an eye on the kids in the mosh pit in case any of them faints or gets hurt.
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19 Sep 2024 06:19
📒knock over (1)
📖Meaning
to hit somebody with a vehicle and injure or kill them
🤓For example ⤵️
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💬 We were walking along the side of the road when this crazy guy in a truck nearly knocked us over.
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17 Sep 2024 21:57
📚eat humble pie
✍🏾Meaning
If you eat humble pie, you admit that you are in the wrong and behave apologetically.
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🔸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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16 Sep 2024 20:23
📒pull over
📖Meaning
If you're driving a car and you pull over, you move over to the side of the road and stop.
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💬 The taxi pulled over to pick up a passenger.
💬 When I saw the police car following me with its lights flashing, I pulled over and turned off the engine.
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15 Sep 2024 10:26
📚a piece of cake
✍🏾Meaning
If you say that something is a piece of cake, you mean that it is extremely easy.
❗️For example
🔸I finished my exam 30 minutes early. It was a piece of cake!
🔸Compared to learning Japanese, learning Indonesian was a piece of cake. It's a much simpler language.
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14 Sep 2024 08:59
📒take out (2)
📖Meaning
to remove something from a container, a pocket, a bag, etc.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Jimmy unzipped his bag and took out his football boots.
💬 Take the meat out of the freezer two hours before you want to cook it.
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12 Sep 2024 10:10
📒Make hay while the sun shines
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If we want to make hay, we need sunny weather, so when the sun comes we should take the opportunity to make hay. Thus the proverb suggests that we should make good use of any opportunity while it lasts.
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11 Sep 2024 09:43
💠 psycho 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
crazy, insane
❕For example
🔺This boxer went totally psycho after the referee said he'd lost the fight. He tried to punch the referee and then he was punching anyone who came near him.
🔺 Lots of people get crazy thoughts and fears after smoking marijuana. Anyone who gets these fears shouldn't use it, or it could make them go psycho for real.
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09 Sep 2024 22:44
📒 All things are difficult before they are easy
📖Meaning
The implication is that we should be patient with learning, and with learners. It takes time to learn to do things. What seems easy to us now may have been difficult at first.
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08 Sep 2024 20:55
💠 yob | yobbo 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an aggressive, impolite, crude person
❕For example
🔺Be careful if you go to a pub on Friday or Saturday night. The yobs will be out and lots of them will be looking for a fight.
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07 Sep 2024 20:43
📒 When the going gets tough, the tough get going
📖Meaning
When a situation is difficult or dangerous, strong people work harder to resolve the problem. This saying relies on a difficult play on words; it could be rephrased word-for-word as: "When the situation becomes hard, strong people start working."
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04 Sep 2024 22:33
📒figure out (1)
📖Meaning
If you figure something out, you find the solution to a problem or the answer to a question.
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💬 To complete the puzzle, study the clues and try to figure out the solution.
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