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03 Jul 2023 19:25

📔 Sail close to the wind




📋Meaning
  To act just within the limits of what’s legal or socially acceptable, to push boundaries.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “They fired their accountant because he sailed too close to the wind.”
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02 Jul 2023 21:47

📔 soaked to the bone



📋Meaning
Extremely or completely wet, especially through one's clothing.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I can't believe you pushed me into the pool! Now I have to walk home soaked to the bone!

🗣The kids let themselves get soaked to the bone out in the rain, and now one of them is coming down with a cold!
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01 Jul 2023 17:30

📔 catnap/take a catnap



📋Meaning
A very brief but restful period of sleep./To sleep for a very brief but restful period of time.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'm going to try to squeeze in a catnap before my next shift starts, or else I'll be feeling sluggish for the entire evening.

🗣Julie gets up really early to do her writing before the kids wake up, then takes little catnaps throughout the day.
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30 Jun 2023 21:18

📔 alarm bell


📋Meaning
A sudden warning or intimation of danger, risk, or ill fortune. (Often pluralized.)

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Alarm bells were going off in my head when I saw the panicked expression on her face.

🗣The new report set alarm bells ringing among the board members because it forecasts a large decrease in enrollment.

🗣A: "Her new boyfriend's anger management issues don't seem to be setting off an alarm bell for her." B: "Yikes, the situation is worse than I thought."
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29 Jun 2023 19:13

📔 shotgun house



📋Meaning
slang A one-story house in which each room is in a straight alignment with the others, connected by a continuous hallway running from the front to the back of the residence. Chiefly used in the Southern United States.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When our whole family goes to stay in my grandmother's shotgun house in New Orleans, it always feels like we're all right on top of one another.
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29 Jun 2023 11:12

📔 Burn Your Bridges


📋Meaning
to do something that makes it impossible for you to return to the situation you were in before. 

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I knew I’ll be burning the bridges when I dropped out of school to pursue my modelling career. 
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28 Jun 2023 09:28

📔 scrapes the barrel


📋Meaning
When a person scrapes the barrel, he is more likely in a dire situation. He is willing to do anything possible to turn his adversity into an opportunity.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The restaurant was so busy that they had to scrape the barrel to find enough ingredients to make all the dishes.
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27 Jun 2023 05:30

📔 Good Things Come to Those Who Wait


📋Meaning
people who wait patiently are typically rewarded and often achieve their desires and goals.  

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My father told me to not sell off stocks yet, good things come to those who wait. 
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26 Jun 2023 09:18

📔 the outside world



📋Meaning
The people, culture, ideas, or experiences beyond an enclosed, sheltered, or remote place, situation or environment.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Being raised out on the farm meant Jacob had little knowledge of the outside world.

🗣Anthropologists came upon an indigenous society that had had no previous contact with the outside world.
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25 Jun 2023 06:12

📔 a bit of a stretch


📋Meaning
A mild exaggeration beyond the truth or what is likely the case.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'm not too fond of taxes either, but it's a bit of a stretch to claim they are the cause of all our problems.

🗣A: "The government is covering up all sorts of extraterrestrial activity." B: "Come on now, don't you think that's a bit of a stretch?"

🗣He still doesn't have the votes? Then I guess it was a bit of a stretch for him to say he'd get the bill passed this week.
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24 Jun 2023 09:06

📔 squashed (in) like sardines



📋Meaning
Very tightly or snugly packed together, especially in a small space. Alludes to the way in which sardines are packed closely together during canning.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣We didn't want to take more than one car, so we had to drive for about four hours squashed like sardines in Jeff's little sedan.

🗣Having a concert in our friends café was such a good idea! Sure, we were squashed in like sardines, but everyone had a great time.
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22 Jun 2023 20:28

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22 Jun 2023 05:30

📔 to weather the storm


📋Meaning
to deal with a difficult situation without being harmed or damaged 


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Newspapers have weathered the storm of online information by providing news online themselves.
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21 Jun 2023 05:30

📔 Between a rock and a hard place



📋Meaning
  In difficulty, faced with a choice between two unsatisfactory options.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “I can understand why she couldn’t make up her mind about what to do. She’s really between a rock and a hard place.”
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20 Jun 2023 05:30

📔 make hay while the sun shines


📋Meaning
make the most of a favorable situation while it lasts.


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B:Not for another two weeks.
A:That’s a long time! How are you spending your time alone?

B:I am finally getting some home improvement projects done. You know, moving some furniture, painting some rooms, cleaning closets …

A:That’s a lot of work for one person. Why don’t you wait for your husband to come home?

B:No way! It’s easier to do it by myself. I’m getting everything done that I can’t do with other people around.

A:Good idea. ‘Make hay while the sun shines.’

B:Exactly!

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03 Jul 2023 08:59

📚learn the ropes


✍🏾Meaning
If you learn the ropes, you learn how to do a job properly, or how things work and how to get things done.


❗️For example

🔸Ruth will teach you what to do, and it shouldn't take you too long to learn the ropes.

🔸It can take quite a while for a new lawyer to learn the ropes in a big legal firm.
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02 Jul 2023 07:21

📔 Blow Hot and Cold


📋Meaning
“blow hot and cold” is used to describe someone who constantly changes their opinion, attitude, or behaviour towards a particular thing or person. 

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The changes benefit “Tom has been blowing hot and cold in his relationship with Lisa. Sometimes he showers her with affection and attention, and other times he acts distant and uninterested.” 
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01 Jul 2023 05:30

📔 Left out in the cold


📋Meaning
Being ignored

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The changes benefit management but leave the workers out in the cold. 
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30 Jun 2023 11:56

📔 In for a penny, in for a pound


📋Meaning
That someone is intentionally investing his time or money for a particular project or task.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When Athlead was booming, Jim was in for penny in for pounds, that’s how much dedicated he was. 
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28 Jun 2023 18:52

📔 harrowing experience


📋Meaning
An experience that is frightening, chilling, or disturbing, either due to an implied or actual element of danger, or from being physically or emotionally unpleasant.

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🗣With so much traffic, cycling in this city can be a harrowing experience.

🗣Walking through that graveyard last night was quite the harrowing experience.

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27 Jun 2023 17:30

📔 cross (one's) bows


📋Meaning
To annoy or irritate.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Boy, you are really crossing my bows today. Why can't you just do what I ask without arguing about it?
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26 Jun 2023 17:45

📔 Up to one's eyeballs




📋Meaning
  to have a very large amount of something to do or be very busy with something

to emphasize the extreme degree of some undesirable or unwanted thing



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 We've been using our credit cards so much we're now up to our eyes in debt.

🗣 If you don't wash your clothes again this weekend you'll be up to your eyeballs in laundry.
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25 Jun 2023 20:19

📔 bear fruit




📋Meaning
to yield a positive result
to produce a desired result



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🗣 You've been going to the library everyday for the past two months so I really hope your studying bears fruit this semester.

🗣  We were pleased to see that our management training program bore fruit when staff retention and productivity both increased by more than 50% over the past year.
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24 Jun 2023 18:51

📔 knock one's socks off


📋Meaning
  to impress someone


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This song will knock your socks off.
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23 Jun 2023 17:30

📔 your guess is as good as mine


📋Meaning
“I don't know or have the solution or answer.”  

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I asked my wife “how long will it take for the pie to bake?” and she answered, “your guess is as good as mine.”
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22 Jun 2023 17:31

📔 talk to the hand



📋Meaning
A rude interjection meant to interrupt and dismiss what another person is saying. (Sometimes written or spoken in longer forms, such as, "talk to the hand, because the face isn't listening," or the like.)


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Dad: "Sarah, would you mind cleaning up the—" Sarah: "Talk to the hand, Dad! I've got too much going on to be dealing with chores around the house!"

🗣All of us were aghast when Jonathan turned to the police officer and said, "Talk to the hand, 'cause the face ain't interested!"
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21 Jun 2023 17:31

📔 to a turn


📋Meaning
For exactly the right amount of time necessary or desired. (Used almost exclusively in reference to how well meat is cooked).


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My goodness, these steaks are so flavorful and have been cooked to a turn!

🗣Jeff is always the one manning the grill, because he makes sure everything on there is done to a turn!
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20 Jun 2023 17:31

📔 the wrong crowd


📋Meaning
A group of people, typically peers, who partake in and elicit immoral, criminal, and/or dangerous behavior and attitudes.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Mary had been a model student all her life, but when she got to senior year of high school, she started hanging out with the wrong crowd, and her grades suffered as a result.

🗣Because there is no sort of network in place to keep young people active and engaged in this part of the city, it's all too easy for them to fall in with the wrong crowd.
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19 Jun 2023 17:30

📔 (the) man/woman of the hour


📋Meaning
A person currently being celebrated, honored, or admired by others, especially for a recent victory, accomplishment, or other cause for celebration.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Janet was woman of the hour at the office after securing the biggest customer their business had ever had.

🗣 Ruth: "Hey, what's going on here?" Dave: "It's a surprise birthday party for you, Ruth! You're the woman of the hour!"

🗣 After writing that bombshell exposé about corruption in Washington, Jake was the man of the hour.
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