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15 Feb 2024 10:42
📔 drive someone up the wall
📋Meaning
to really anger, bother, irritate or annoy someone
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My secretary pops her chewing gum loudly all day long and it absolutely drives me up the wall.
🗣Please don’t play your music so loud, you know that drives your father up the wall.
🗣 I know that rash is driving you up the wall but if you keep scratching it, it will never heal.
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14 Feb 2024 08:43
📔 Jump through hoops
📋Meaning
to do a series of difficult or unpleasant things in order to get something you want or something you need to do.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I had to jump through hoops to get to my flight. First, I took the bus, then the subway, then another bus to the airport, then a shuttle bus to the terminal and a tram to the gate!
🗣We went through hoops to get a new hotel after our travel agent had booked us into a noisy hotel that was undergoing renovations.
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13 Feb 2024 09:31
📔 go to waste
📋Meaning
•to not be used
•to squander or miss an opportunity
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 When the Native American Indians killed a buffalo absolutely nothing went to waste.
🗣Our new apartment has a small refrigerator so now we can't buy many groceries and nothing goes to waste.
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12 Feb 2024 08:42
📔 keep a close watch on/over someone/something
📋Meaning
To carefully observe or monitor a situation for problems or changes
✍Note
You can also say "keep a watch" or "keep watch"
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Could you please water my plants and keep a close watch on my house while I am away?
🗣 Keep a close watch over the sauce and to make sure it simmers and doesn't boil.
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11 Feb 2024 07:27
📔 Drink like a fish
📋Meaning
to drink too much alcohol at one time.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I'm worried about Paul—he's been drinking like a fish again.
🗣 I hate going to fraternity parties—it's not very fun when I'm sober and everyone else is drinking like a fish.
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10 Feb 2024 09:21
📔 Hold your horses
📋Meaning
1) slow down;
2) wait a moment;
3) be patient.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Please hold your horses while you drive through this neighborhood—there are many children outside playing.
🗣 I'm sorry but you're going to have to hold your horses, there are many people in line ahead of you and we are working as fast as we can.
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08 Feb 2024 20:46
📔 put (one's) back up
📋Meaning
To be or become angry, hostile, defensive, defiant, or irritable, or to instill such a feeling in someone else.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣John put his back up when his parents brought up the subject of college.
🗣Election season always puts my dad's back up.
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07 Feb 2024 20:49
💠 the half of it
✍🏾 A portion of something, typically implied to be the most important or significant part. (Often used in the negative.)
Yes, the company is losing money, but that's only the half of it: if we don't show some improved sales soon, the bank will cut our credit line, too!
A: "I heard the meeting went pretty poorly." B: "That isn't the half of it. Now the boss wants to do a full review of my employment, so I might even lose my job!"
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06 Feb 2024 19:30
📔 born in the purple
📋Meaning
Born into royalty. Purple is a color traditionally associated with royalty.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Did you see pictures of the latest addition to the royal family? What a sweet little princess born in the purple!
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05 Feb 2024 20:14
💠 hot desking
✍🏾 The act or practice of sharing desks or workstations between employees in an office so as to cut down on the amount of office space required.
I've never worked in a company that did hot desking before; while it was strange not having my own desk at first, with everything done on laptops you barely notice it after a while!
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04 Feb 2024 19:57
📔in (one's) heyday
📋In, at, or during the period of one's greatest success, power, vigor, etc.
🗣In my heyday as a stock broker, I was making millions of dollars each year, but when the economy crashed, I lost nearly everything.
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03 Feb 2024 18:50
📔 scare story
📋Meaning
A story or rumor that makes something seem more serious, dreadful, or terrifying than it really is.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Every year around Halloween, there's some scare story in the news about razor blades being found in candy.
🗣You just can't listen to all the scare stories people love to spread or you'd end up being afraid of everything!
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01 Feb 2024 09:14
📔 Keep your head above water
📋Meaning
1) to have just enough to live or survive (especially having enough money); 2) to manage to do all of your work.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 She keeping her head above water right now but if she doesn't find another job soon she'll have to move back home to her parents' house.
🗣 I've been keeping my head above water for three months working part-time but my holiday job will be ending soon and I'm not sure what I will do.
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15 Feb 2024 20:28
📔 be not short of a penny (or two)
📋Meaning
To be exceptionally wealthy; to have no concerns regarding money.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣A: "I just heard Sarah just lost her job!" B: "Well, her husband's family isn't short of a penny, so I think they'll be just fine."
🗣I once dated a guy who, though he was never short of a penny or two, was the most miserly person I'd ever met. He wouldn't even tip when we went out to eat!
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14 Feb 2024 20:18
📔 (as) sick as a parrot
📋Meaning
Thoroughly displeased, disappointed, or dejected (about something). Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Tim was as sick as a parrot when he learned that he had been passed over for the promotion.
🗣I'm delighted that my children have such wonderful opportunities abroad, but I must say I feel sick as a parrot at the thought of being separated from them for so long.
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13 Feb 2024 20:28
📔 pound sand
📋Meaning
To engage in pointless, menial efforts or labor. Used especially as an imperative to express disdain, contempt, or dismissal.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I can't believe Sam told his teacher to go pound sand. Where does that kid get such attitude?
🗣Charles, why don't you pound sand instead of coming around here hassling me about my business?
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12 Feb 2024 18:26
📔in virtue of (something)
📋Due to something; because of something; by reason of something.
🗣In virtue of your years of hard work and experience in the company, we think you would be well-suited to a managerial role within the company.
🗣I know that you feel the need to intervene in virtue of your role as a father, but you need to allow your children a greater degree of independence.
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11 Feb 2024 19:19
💠honorable mention
✍🏾A recognition or citation of merit given to a contestant, exhibition, entry, etc., in a competition despite that person or thing not being awarded a prize or top honor. Primarily heard in US.
My short story did not win a top place in the writing competition, but being given an honorable mention still gives me great pride.
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10 Feb 2024 18:27
📔the knacker's yard
📋A state of ruin or failure due to having become useless or obsolete. Refers to a slaughterhouse for old or injured horses.
🗣Once a booming industry before the age of the Internet, home video rental has largely ended up in the knacker's yard these days.
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08 Feb 2024 08:10
📔 Open a can of worms
📋Meaning
a situation or issue that becomes even more complicated as you try to deal with it or solve the problem.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Commenting on my wife's appearance always opens a can of worms so I never say anything anymore.
🗣 The investigation of donations made to the winning candidate during the election has really opened a can of worms.
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07 Feb 2024 09:33
📔 look down on someone
📋Meaning
to see something or someone as inferior
to disapprove of someone or something
✍Note
This is also frequently used as look down one’s nose at someone / something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I hate to say this but my father looks down on anyone who doesn’t come from a wealthy background.
🗣 Don’t look down on these jeans just because they don’t have a designer label on them. If you like them, buy them.
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06 Feb 2024 10:34
📔 As cool as a cucumber
📋Meaning
calm and relaxed (especially in a difficult or stressful situation).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My boss is as cool as a cucumber even when he speaks in front of hundreds of people.
🗣 Even though she'd just lost her job, she came to the party as cool as a cucumber.
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05 Feb 2024 07:18
📔 Hit the Road
📋Meaning
to leave (especially to go home); to depart on a journey (especially to travel to a place by car).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I'm sorry but I have to go home—we're hitting the road to Chicago early in the morning.
🗣 What time are we hitting the road tomorrow?
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04 Feb 2024 10:35
📔 Sleep like a log
📋Meaning
to sleep very soundly (deeply) — so well that noises don't even wake you up.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My husband slept like a log the entire flight but I didn't even get five minutes of sleep.
🗣 Take this pill at bedtime and you'll sleep like a log tonight.
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03 Feb 2024 07:20
📔 You rock!
📋Meaning
To say someone or something rocks means that you think that person or thing is great, or awesome, or cool.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Hey, thanks for moving my sofa on Saturday. You rock!
🗣 “How was your event last night?” “Excellent! It rocked!”
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01 Feb 2024 19:34
📔on (one's) tod
📋Without or not near to anyone else; on one's own; all alone. A shortening of the Cockney rhyming slang "on one's Tod Sloan," referring to a once-famous American horse jockey who fell into disrepute in the early 20th century and died penniless and alone. Primarily heard in UK.
🗣To be quite honest, after a hectic week of work, I much prefer having a drink on my tod than being around a bunch of people.
🗣Mary's been on her tod ever since Rupert broke up with her last week.
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31 Jan 2024 21:48
📔 pull a prank (on someone)
📋Meaning
To carry out a trick, deception, or practical joke (against someone).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣It turns out that the supposed alien visitors that people had been seeing were just a bunch of teenagers pulling a prank on the town.
🗣I've got a great plan to pull a prank on the school for April Fools' Day.
🗣The fake article had been in print in the renowned scientific journal for more than a week before its author revealed that he had pulled a prank when he decided to submit it.
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