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Everybody is trying to find the right person. No one is trying to be the right person.
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Yoga is essentially a spiritual discipline based on an extremely subtle science, which focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body. It is an art and science of healthy living.
The word 'Yoga' is derived from the Sanskrit root 'Yuj', meaning 'to join' or 'to yoke' or 'to unite'.
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📚 Go to the dogs
(informal)
✏️ Meaning: deteriorate shockingly.
❇️ Ex: The country is going to the dogs.
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Your diet is not only what you eat. It is what you watch, what you listen to, what you read, the people you hang around, be mindful of the things you put into your body emotionally, spiritually and physically.
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📚 After a fashion
✏️ Meaning: To a certain extent but not perfectly; in some way, but not very well.
🖍 Synonyms: somehow, to a degree, to some extent
❇️ Ex: He could read after a fashion.
❇️ Ex: He knew the way, after a fashion.
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📚 Get fresh with somebody
(Informal)
✏️ Meaning: Be rude and too confident in a way that shows a lack of respect for somebody or a sexual interest in somebody.
❇️ Ex: Don't get fresh with me.
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📚 Frenemy /noun/
(Informal)
✏️ Meaning: A person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry.
A person who pretends to be your friend but is in fact an enemy.
❇️ Ex: Her only friends are a trio of catty frenemies she hasn't seen in months.
❇️ Ex: Throughout, the two have a clear frenemy relationship.
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Nothing in nature blooms all year.
Be patient with yourself.
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The cards are dealt and spread
One by one, the faces brought to light
One by one, your hand graze the wheel's cogs.
The stones are set and placed.
All that left, is your verdict.
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📚 Twiddle one's thumbs
- rotate one's thumbs round each other with the fingers linked together.
✏️ Meaning: Be bored or idle because one has nothing to do.
❇️ Ex: I have been sitting here for goodness knows how long twiddling my thumbs.
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#vocabulary
📚 Sublime /adjective/
✏️ Synonyms: excellent, great, supreme, superb, high, glorious, marvellous
❇️ Ex: The sublime style of Milton's poetry
❇️ Ex: He gradually turned into a sublime husband.
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📚 Drop the act
✏️ Meaning: stop pretending
❇️ Ex: That's enough. drop the act!
❇️ Ex: drop the act. I know the whole truth.
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📚 Spick and span /adjective/
✏️ Meaning: neat and tidy, clean, and well looked after.
❇️ Ex: My little house is spick and span.
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Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
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It's not what you say to everyone else that determines your life, It's what you whisper to yourself that has the greatest power.
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📚 Deteriorate /verb/
✏️ Meaning: spoil, ruin, destroy, damage, take down, pull down
❇️ Ex: Wood deteriorates faster in damp places.
❇️ Ex: The relations between the two countries have been deteriorating for sometime.
❇️ Ex: Aunt Sarah's health is fast deteriorating.
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The cells in your body react to everything your mind says.
Negativity brings your immune system down.
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Life is so much simpler when you stop explaining yourself to people and just do what works for you.
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💎idiom of the day:
To have/get the green light to do
something
✳️Meaning:
to have permission to start something
❇️Examples:
✏️"The company has the green light to start the project."
✏️"We got the green light to begin to use the new computers."
✏️"The students have the green light to start the project."
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#phrasalverb
📚 Butt in
✏️ Meaning: interrupt or intrude on a conversation or activity.
Get into the middle of someone else's business.
❇️ Ex: He's always butting in- not letting her finish her story and giving her advice she never asked for.
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❇️ When you are so happy use these 👇
😃 I'm overjoyed
😃 I'm on cloud nine
😃 I'm over the moon
😃 I'm on top of the world
😃 I'm delighted
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The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear...
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📚 The rest is history
✏️ Meaning: If you are telling someone about an event and say the rest is history, you mean that you do not need to tell them what happened next because everyone knows about it already.
❇️ Ex: We met at college, the rest is history.
❇️ Ex: A job with the company was advertised in the Daily Telegraph. I applied and the rest is history.
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📚 To have the world by the tail
✏️ Meaning: To be very successful, contented and happy in life.
❇️ Ex: Samantha landed her dream job after finishing at the top of her class in college. She has the world by the tail.
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#grammar
I was busy + verb + ing
✏️ I was busy taking note.
✏️ I was busy sending an email.
✏️ I was busy reading a novel.
✏️ I was busy fixing my car.
✏️ I was busy talking on the phone.
✏️ I was busy finishing the project.
✏️ I was busy doing the laundry.
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