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13 Dec 2017 05:54

Slang of the Day

💥smart-arse
🇬🇧British English Offensive

✍🏾Meaning: a person who's annoying because they try to show how clever and knowledgeable they are (n.) | having an annoying way of trying to seem clever (adj.)

📌For example:

🔺Greg sounds like a bit of a smart-arse when he's in a discussion because he states his opinion as if it's the last word on a topic.

🔺We don't need some smart-arse ecology professor coming out here and telling us how to run our farms.

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English to
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11 Dec 2017 10:18

Slang of the Day

💢ex-con

✍🏾Meaning: someone who has spent time in jail

❕For example:

🔺It can be very hard for an ex-con to get a job once he's been released from jail.

🔺There's a program that ex-cons can join that helps them start a new life and a new career.

🗨Origin: short for "ex-convict"
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09 Dec 2017 09:28

Slang of the day

💥whoopee

✍🏾Meaning: an interjection of great enjoyment or excitement

📌For example:

🔺Whoopee! I won the top prize!

🔺As Suzie was riding the rollercoaster, she threw her arms in the air and shouted, "Whoopee!!"
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05 Dec 2017 09:43

Slang of the day

💥Square

✍🏾Meaning: A plain, boring person; someone who is out of touch with the latest trends.

❗️For example:

🔺Michael is such a square — I've never met anyone so boring.

🔺 You know a dance club has lost its edge when the squares start showing up.

🗨Etymology: This sense of 'square' comes from jazz musicians in the 1920s. When a conductor wanted his orchestra to play in straight 4/4 time, he would snap his fingers in the air and make the shape of a square. Many jazz musicians thought that this time and rhythm pattern was boring, and began to call boring musicians 'squares'.

📌Synonyms: vanilla
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01 Dec 2017 09:50

Slang of the Day

💢totally

✍🏾Meaning: very, really

❗️For example:

▪️This guy I met who runs a website for learning English is so totally cool. You've just gotta meet him!

▪️Iggy's come up with this totally awesome new trick. He flips his skateboard three times in the air before landing on it.
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28 Nov 2017 12:51

Slang of the Day

💥janky

🇺🇸American English
✍🏾Meaning: poorly made, of low quality

❗️For example:

🔺Dave keeps riding his janky old motorbike. I wish he'd get a new one.

🔺How come you got those janky sneakers on? Why don't you get some good ones?

🗨Variety: This is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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26 Nov 2017 07:02

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24 Nov 2017 08:38

Idiom of the Day

💥state-of-the-art

✍🏾Meaning: If something is state-of-the-art, it's the latest and best example of something, or it shows the most recent developments in its field.

❗️For example:

🔺Have you seen Ian's new phone? He says it's got state-of-the-art technology you can only get in that model.

🔺I never buy state-of-the-art products because they're always so expensive. I just wait six months and get the same thing for a lot less.
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20 Nov 2017 14:48

Idiom of the Day

💥You're on!

✍🏾Meaning: You can say "You're on!" if you want to accept a challenge, a bet or an invitation.

❗️For example:

🅰️Batman: "I bet I can do more push-ups than you can, wonder boy!"
🅱️Robin: "You're on, Batman!"

🔺After a hard day's work, Bruce said, "Feel like throwing back a few beers down the pub, mate?" and Barry said, "You're on, matey! Let's go!"
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18 Nov 2017 19:36

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📗a recipe for disaster

☑️Meaning: Something is a recipe for disaster if it's going to cause trouble or serious problems.

🎗For example:

🔹Inviting my mother-in-law to stay for a week is a recipe for disaster. I'll end up arguing with her, and then my wife and I will quarrel and then the kids will get upset. It's a bad idea!

🔹Eating too much, not exercising enough, and being under stress is a recipe for disaster. You'll end up overweight and you'll probably die young.
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16 Nov 2017 15:37

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14 Nov 2017 16:01

Slang of the Day

💥klutz
🇺🇸American and 🇦🇺Australian English Offensive

💢Meaning: a clumsy or foolish person

❗️For example:

🔺Why did you tell Barney to pick up the glassware? He's a klutz so he'd be bound to break something.

🔺All he had to do was catch a simple pop-up and we would've won the Baseball World Series. But he dropped it! What a klutz!

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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13 Nov 2017 19:05

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💥armpit

☑️Meaning: a very unpleasant place

📌For example:

🔹This town is smelly, dirty, ugly and hot. No wonder it's called the armpit of America.

🔹Gerry reckons the town he was born in is the armpit of the universe, but it can't be that bad.
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11 Nov 2017 15:41

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💥zing

💢Meaning: energy, liveliness

❗️For example:

🔺Liz is a great performer and she should bring a lot of zing to the show.

🔺The team needs a player who can add some zing to the attacking moves.
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07 Nov 2017 18:10

Slang of the Day

💥rap sheet
🇺🇸American English

💢Meaning: a criminal record

❗️For example:

🔺Tommy's always getting into trouble with the police. He's got a rap sheet a mile long.

🔺No-one needs to know about your rap sheet. Just keep it a secret.

🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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12 Dec 2017 09:56

Idiom of the Day

💥strive to do

✍🏾Meaning
✅to try very hard to achieve
✅to be doing something meticulously in order to achieve good results
✅to dedicate tough efforts to do something
✅struggle for some work to get done

📌Example Sentences

🔺This is perhaps the only politician that I have come across who strives to do what he promised.
🔺I am striving to achieve my goals of getting into the top management college of the country.
🔺She strives to prove herself every day.
🔺He is striving to earn so much so that he can pay for his father’s surgery.
🔺I have strived to have come up in the social circle by participating in as many events as I possibly could.
🔺My daughter strives to get better marks but her focus is always on sports and extracurricular activities.
🔺You must always remember that when you strive to achieve something, it is most likely that you will figure out a way to get it.
🔺I cannot believe that you have strived to earn the last two years just so that you could get an upgrade on your car. Was it worth the time and effort that you put into it?

🗨Origin
The phrase originates for its literal meaning. The action verb in the phrase can be switched with any other as per the usage and scenario.
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10 Dec 2017 11:27

Idiom of the Day

💥on the off-chance

✍🏾Meaning: You can say you're doing something "on the off-chance" if you're doing it because it might lead to something that you want, even though it's not definite.

📌For example:

🔺Photographers follow celebrities around on the off-chance that they can get a good photograph of them and sell it.

🔺I'll call Frank and tell him where we are on the off-chance that he can join us.
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07 Dec 2017 09:31

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💥take the bull by the horns /ˈteɪk ðə ˈbʊl ˈbaɪ ðə ˈhoɚnz/

✍🏾: to deal with a difficult situation in a very direct or confident way

❗️For example:

🔺She decided to take the bull by the horns and try to solve the problem without any further delay.

🔺The woman is taking the bull by the horns and fixing the sink herself.
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03 Dec 2017 09:23

Idiom of the Day

💥get the hang of /ˈgɛt ðə ˈhæŋ əv/
❗️informal

✍🏾: to learn the skills that are needed to do (something)

🔺He was finally getting the hang of his job. [=he was finally beginning to understand and become skillful in his job]

🔺She's getting the hang of driving.
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30 Nov 2017 09:34

Idiom of the Day

🔰hard to come by

✍🏾Meaning: If something is hard to come by, it is difficult to find.

❗️For example:

🔺A good cheap hotel is hard to come by in London these days.

🔺Good jobs in the airline industy have been hard to come by recently.
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27 Nov 2017 06:28

Idiom of the Day

💥A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN

✍🏾Meaning:
It means two people who are perfect for each other.

❗️Example:

🔺Tim and Lily are truly a match made in heaven. They have bonded with their com­mon love for div­ing, gar­den­ing and even rock-climb­ing!

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26 Nov 2017 06:28

Slang of the Day

💥bimbo

✍🏾Meaning: a pretty, but empty-headed, young lady

❗️For example:

🔺Linda says most of the women who marry professional golfers or footballers look like bimbos whose main interest in life is shopping.

🔺Cindy said she wasn't a bimbo, and proved it by saying the word itself reflected the oppressive stereotyping that attractive women were still subject to despite the gains made by the feminist movement.
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22 Nov 2017 07:44

Slang of the Day

💥sicko

✍🏾Meaning: a deranged or perverted person

❗️For example:

🔺For a moment I thought there was some sicko with a knife behind me, but it turned out to be my boyfriend sticking his finger in my back.

🔺Did you see the photos of what those sicko prison guards at Abu Ghraib did?

💥Note: The word sicko is normally a noun but can be used as an adjective.
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18 Nov 2017 19:37

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18 Nov 2017 15:32

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💥kook

🇺🇸American English
✍🏾Meaning: a strange or eccentric person

❗️For example:

🔺There's this kook in my apartment building with snake tattoos on his face and he keeps these giant pythons as pets.

🔺Why did Margaret marry a kook like that guy Jim? He thinks he's some sort of Indian holy man or something.

🗨Variety: This is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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16 Nov 2017 15:23

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💥Eye-catching
✍🏾tending to attract attention, visually attractive, striking

📌Examples:

▪️There were lots of eye-catching posters at the entrance of the cinema.
▪️Her dress was so eye-catching that we couldn’t do anything but stare at her for minutes.
▪️I’m looking forward to hearing from you! Let me know if this lesson was useful!
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13 Nov 2017 14:35

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💥under lock and key

💢Meaning: If something is under lock and key, it is kept in a very secure place.

❗️For example:

🔺Make sure these documents are under lock and key until we need them.

🔺Poor Josie. Her parents were very strict and they kept her under lock and key throughout her childhood, so she never learned about life's dangers.Idiom of the Day
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09 Nov 2017 16:39

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💥down to earth

Ⓜ️eaning: If someone is down to earth, they are practical and sensible.

❗️For example:

🔺Steven is an artist and a real dreamer, but luckily his wife Sarah is down to earth, so she takes care of their day-to-day lives.

🔺We need someone who can come up with practical, down-to-earth ideas that we can work with in the real world.
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06 Nov 2017 15:02

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🔰chickens come home to roost

💢Meaning: If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.

❗️For example:

🔺Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.

🔺The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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