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17 Oct 2017 13:48

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16 Oct 2017 00:50

Idiom of the Day

🔰go over big /ˈgoʊ ˈoʊvɚ ˈbɪg/
✔️ definition of GO OVER BIG
❗️informal
💢: to be successful or well-liked

❕For example:
🔺Here's a recipe for healthy cookies that always goes over big with kids. [=that children like a lot]
🔺The pie went over big with the guests.

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15 Oct 2017 21:53

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15 Oct 2017 21:44

‍ Word of the Day

💢lousy /ˈlaʊzi/ adjective
lousier; lousiest


Learner's definition of LOUSY
1️⃣ informal : bad or poor
🔺She got lousy grades in high school.
🔺I like the work, but the pay is lousy.
🔺He was a lousy husband.
✔️: of poor quality : not good or skillful
▪️They did a lousy job.
▪️a lousy cook/driver
▪️a lousy performance
❗️— often + at or with
🔺He is lousy [=terrible] at sports/math/cooking.
🔺She's lousy with kids.

2️⃣ : not well or healthy
🔺We could see that she was feeling lousy. [=feeling ill]
🔺He drank too much and felt lousy the next morning.

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15 Oct 2017 08:45

Slang of the Day

💥 dicey
/ˈdaɪsɪ/
💯Meaning: risky, unsafe, dangerous

❗️For example:

▪️Skating on an ice-covered lake in spring is always a bit dicey.

▪️Marty was warned that the investment was dicey, but he went ahead and put money into the business anyway. Luckily for Marty, the company did very well.
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11 Oct 2017 09:30

Slang of the Day

💥tee off
🇺🇸American English

💢Meaning: to make someone angry, to annoy

❗️For example:

🔺He really teed his girlfriend off when he said he couldn't go out because he had to watch a football game on TV.

🔺Ken teed me off when he said he couldn't pay back the money he owed me.

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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07 Oct 2017 19:50

Slang of the Day

💥wicked
🇬🇧British English


💢Meaning: very good, excellent, outstanding

❗️For example:

🔺We saw this new band last night and they were wicked. Go and see them next time they play.

🔺Where'd you get the jacket, Dave? It's wicked.

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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07 Oct 2017 11:31

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07 Oct 2017 10:36

Idiom of the Day

🔰a slap on the wrist

💢Meaning: ➡️If someone gives you a slap on the wrist, they give you a mild punishment for making a mistake or doing something wrong.

❗️For example:

🔺The tribunal didn't think it was a serious offence, so they just gave him a slap on the wrist. All he got was a warning.

🔺Some of our players got a slap on the wrist for getting to the training session late. The coach warned them not to be late again and then made them do twenty push-ups.
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05 Oct 2017 19:37

Slang of the Day

📌geezer
Offensive

📝Meaning: an old person

📍For example:

🔺I'm late because I got stuck behind some old geezer at the bank who took ages to sort out his stuff.

🔺One day I'll be one of those old geezers who sit in the park all day playing chess and checkers.
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03 Oct 2017 06:47

Slang of the Day

💥quarterback
🇺🇸American English

Ⓜ️eaning: to lead and make decisions

❗️For example:

🔺We need someone who can quarterback the sales team when they go to trade fairs.

🔺Who's going to quarterback Monday's staff meeting?

🛡Origin: From American football, or gridiron, in which the quarterback is the player who leads the team during offensive moves.

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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29 Sep 2017 08:08

Slang of the Day

📌hoops
🇺🇸American English

Ⓜ️eaning: the game of basketball

►For example:

🔺Every day after work I hook up with my friends down at the court and we shoot some hoops.

🔺My little bro' practices hoops every day after school. He wants to be an NBA star.

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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25 Sep 2017 08:16

Slang of the Day

🔰dork
🇺🇸American English Offensive

Ⓜ️eaning: a socially awkward person

〽️For example:

🔺My son is upset because some kids at school called him a dork.

🔺You call my little brother a dork again and I'll beat the crap out of you! You got that?

☑️Note: This word is usually used among young people, and has a similar meaning to "geek", "dweeb", "nerd", etc.

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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21 Sep 2017 22:03

Slang of the Day

💥bottom
Offensive

Ⓜ️eaning: a man who takes the passive role in gay or homosexual sex

❗️For example:

🔺Joey made a page about himself on a gay community website and it said he preferred bottoms aged 20 to 40.

🔺When Pedro was in a gay bar he met a guy he really liked, but it soon became clear that they were both bottoms.

🗨Note: This is a common gay slang term and it means a man who prefers to be "on the bottom", or to take the passive role, in gay sex. A man who prefers to be "on top", or to take the active role, is called a "top".
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20 Sep 2017 04:29

Slang of the Day

💥Yikes!

Ⓜ️eaning: interjection expressing surprise or shock

✨For example:

🔺When Sally saw her phone bill, she said, "Yikes! How could it be that much?"

🔺While Bill was driving home, he nearly hit a car that pulled out in front of him. "Yikes! That was close!"
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17 Oct 2017 00:00

Slang of the Day

🔰Yo!
🇺🇸American English

Ⓜ️eaning: a greeting, like "Hey!"

❗️For example:

🔺"Yo, Jerome! What's up bro?"

🔺I was walking along the street when I heard this kid yell "Yo, Mikey! What's happenin' man?"

💥Note: "Yo!" is used mostly by African-Americans, or by people who are influenced by African-American culture and style.

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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16 Oct 2017 00:45

Phrase of the day

📒I can't put my finger on it📒

📝We use this expression to say that we can't explain or fully understand something.

Written: ✖️Spoken: ✔️Formal: ✖️Informal: ✔️

💥Example1️⃣
🅰️She looks different, doesn't she?
🅱️Yes, I can't put my finger on it. Has she changed her hair?

💥Example 2️⃣
🅰️Why don't you like Sam?
🅱️I don't know. I can't put my finger on it. I just feel we can't trust him.
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15 Oct 2017 21:47

Slang of the Day

🔰redneck
🇺🇸American English Offensive

✔️Meaning: a lower-class white person from a rural background

📌For example:

🔺We were driving through Alabama when we saw some rednecks riding in the back of a pick-up truck drinking whiskey from a bottle.

🔺If it wasn't for the redneck vote, the Republicans wouldn't have won the election.

✨Origin: Originally referred to working-class white people from the southeastern states of the USA. These people often worked outside as farmers or labourers, and they'd often have red necks as a result of sunburn.

💥Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

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15 Oct 2017 15:49

Idiom of the Day

📗the cream of the crop

✔️Meaning: If something or someone is in the cream of the crop, they are among the best of a class of things or people.

⚡️For example:

▪️The cream of the crop of this year's high-school graduates will get into the best universities, as usual.

▪️We're only interested in the cream of the crop, so don't send us any second-rate samples.

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13 Oct 2017 08:03

‍ Idiom of the Day

💥vim and vigor

💢Meaning: If you have vim and vigor, you have lots of energy and enthusiasm for life.

❗️For example

🔺Our grandmother is always full of vim and vigor when we go to visit her.

🔺If you want to have lots of vim and vigor when you get older, you need to eat good food and get plenty of exercise when you're young.
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09 Oct 2017 10:44

Idiom of the Day

💥quick as a flash | quick as a wink | quick as lightning

💢Meaning: If you're as quick as a flash, or quick as a wink, or quick as lightning, you're very quick.

❗️For example:

🔺Jimmy knew the answer and, quick as a flash, he put up his hand.

🔺Rafael is a big guy for a tennis player, but he's as quick as lightning when he's running around the court.
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07 Oct 2017 19:24

Slang of the Day

💥wicked
🇬🇧British English


💢Meaning: very good, excellent, outstanding

❗️For example:

🔺We saw this new band last night and they were wicked. Go and see them next time they play.

🔺Where'd you get the jacket, Dave? It's wicked.

👁‍🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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07 Oct 2017 11:28

Slang of the Day

🔰hooky | hookey
🇺🇸American English

☑️Meaning: (in phrase play hooky) to stay away from school or work without permission

✨For example:

🔹Let's play hooky tomorrow and go watch the golf. Things are pretty quiet at work anyway.

🔹When I was a kid, I was caught playing hookey when school inspectors nabbed us at the mall.

💥Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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06 Oct 2017 05:01

Slang of the Day

💥nab

☑️Meaning: to catch someone doing something wrong

❗️For example:

🔺Drug testers have nabbed another professional cyclist for taking steroids.

🔺Some kids were nabbed while stealing sweets from the store.
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05 Oct 2017 06:19

Idiom of the Day

🔰yellow-bellied

☑️Meaning: If someone is yellow-bellied, they are not brave, or they are cowardly.

❗️For example:

🔺Tony's father called him yellow-bellied when he was a five-year-old boy because he didn't want to ride a horse. Tony has never forgotten it.

🔺The whole country behaved like yellow-bellied cowards when they let a small group of cheats steal the national election.
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01 Oct 2017 06:38

Idiom of the Day

🔰can't see the forest for the trees
🇺🇸American English

Ⓜ️eaning: If you can't see the forest for the trees, you can't see the whole situation clearly because you're looking too closely at small details, or because you're too closely involved.

►For example:

🔺I don't think we can see the forest for the trees at this stage, so let's get an outsider to take a look at the project and give us a progress report.

🔺Mark is so focused on product details that he can't see the forest for the trees when it comes to the overall needs of the company.

💥Note: The British and Australian equivalent is "can't see the wood for the trees".

👁‍🗨Variety: This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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27 Sep 2017 08:39

Idiom of the Day

🔰I owe you one!
❗️INFORMAL

Ⓜ️eaning: You can say "I owe you one!" when someone has done something for you and you'd be happy to return the favour one day.

►For example:

🔺Thanks for helping me out, Bob. I owe you one!

🔺"I owe you one!" said Malik after I'd told him to sell his shares just before the market collapsed.
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23 Sep 2017 07:40

Idiom of the Day

◾️hit the nail on the head

Ⓜ️eaning: If you hit the nail on the head, you describe the exact nature of something such as a problem, a solution, or a situation.

〰For example:

🔺Bernie hit the nail on the head when he said the team's problem is that the players don't have confidence in one another.

🔺You really hit the nail on the head when you said that Gina needs to stop worrying about making mistakes when she speaks English.
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21 Sep 2017 00:08

Idiom of the Day

💥hot under the collar

Ⓜ️eaning: If you are hot under the collar, you feel angry or annoyed about something.

❕For example:

🔺The coach was getting hot under the collar because he thought the referee was making unfair decisions against his players.

🔺We could see Matt was getting hot under the collar because of what Ken was saying, so we changed the subject.

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19 Sep 2017 06:48

Idiom of the Day

💥a one-track mind

Ⓜ️eaning: If someone has a one-track mind, they spend most of their time thinking about one subject.

✨For example:

🔺Brian's had a one-track mind since he started his own company. All he thinks about now is business and making money.

🔺Mark's upset because Jenny said he's got a one-track mind and he's always thinking about sex.
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