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23 Mar 2023 04:30

📔get down to work

📋To begin being serious about something; to begin attending to business or work at hand.

🗣I believe that everyone is present for the board meeting, so let's get down to work, shall we?
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22 Mar 2023 04:30

📔laze about

📋To relax or spend time idly; to do nothing or very little.

🗣I can't wait to go on my vacation and laze about the beach for two weeks!
🗣It's a gorgeous day outside, so you kids get off your butts and quit lazing about!
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21 Mar 2023 04:30

📔an/the olive branch

📋Meaning
A symbol, expression, or gesture of peace, reconciliation, truce, etc. Used most commonly in the phrase "hold out/offer (someone) an/the olive branch."

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The conservatives in Congress seem to be offering the olive branch to Democrats on the issue of raising the debt ceiling.

🗣If you find yourself in a spat with a friend, try to be the bigger person and be the one to hold out the olive branch.
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20 Mar 2023 04:30

📔 talk a mile a minute



📋Meaning
To speak in a very quick or hurried manner; to talk very fast.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When the boss gets excited, she starts talking a mile a minute, and I can never follow everything she's trying to say!
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19 Mar 2023 12:30

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02 Mar 2023 16:30

📔 canary in a/the coal mine


📋Meaning
Something or someone who, due to sensitivity to his, her, or its surroundings, acts as an indicator and early warning of possible adverse conditions or danger. Refers to the former practice of taking caged canaries into coal mines. The birds would die if methane gas became present and thereby alert miners to the danger.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Wildlife in disaster movies assumes the role of the canary in the coal mine, fleeing the scene when catastrophe is imminent.

🗣Unaware that he had been given the test drug, John was used as a canary in the coal mine to see its effects on the human mind.
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02 Mar 2023 04:30

📔 back away from (something/someone)


📋Meaning
  to move away from something or stop supporting something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Our supervisor wanted us to start working on Sundays but after everyone complained he backed away from the idea.

🗣 The government has backed away from plans to increase taxes.
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01 Mar 2023 04:32

📔out of the frying pan (and) into the fire

📋Meaning
From a bad, stressful, or dangerous situation into one that is even worse.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Those poor refugees escaped the famine but ended up in a war zone—out of the frying pan into the fire.

🗣I thought my old job was stressful, but my new one is 10 times worse. It's like going out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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28 Feb 2023 04:33

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27 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 a sticky situation



📋Meaning
A particularly awkward, embarrassing, precarious, or difficult situation or circumstance. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I found myself in a bit of a sticky situation when the boss saw me kissing his daughter at the movies.

🗣I'll be in quite a sticky situation if I arrive at the train station and don't have enough money for the tickets!

🗣We have to fire the headmaster's son for sleeping on the job? Oh great, there's a sticky situation.
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26 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 between dog and wolf


📋Meaning
Between dusk and daylight.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣What were you guys doing out between dog and wolf? You better not have been getting into trouble last night!
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25 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 lap up


📋Meaning
To ingest something, usually a liquid, by licking. A noun or pronoun can be used between "lap" and "up."

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Those kittens must have been hungry—they've already lapped up all the milk in the saucer.
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24 Feb 2023 17:03

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24 Feb 2023 05:50

📔 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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22 Mar 2023 16:30

📔 safe and sound


📋Meaning
  not hurt or injured.


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🗣Drive safely, and when you get home don’t forget to call us to let us know you’ve arrived safe and sound.
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21 Mar 2023 16:31

📔 hit the jackpot


📋Meaning 1
To win a large amount of money, especially in a lottery.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Stop wasting your money on lottery tickets—it's not like you'll ever hit the jackpot.

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To acquire or come into possession of something very beneficial or perfectly suited for one.

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To find exactly what was sought or desired, especially in a large quantity.

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20 Mar 2023 16:30

📔 ahead of the game


📋Meaning
  doing well in a situation and making progress.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I’m always taking training courses so that I can get ahead of the game.
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19 Mar 2023 16:30

📔 back in the saddle



📋Meaning
  doing something that you had stopped doing for a while.


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🗣 I started working out at the gym again and it feels great to be back in the saddle.

🗣 Don’t worry, it’s just an ankle sprain—you’ll be back in the saddle playing tennis in a couple of weeks.
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01 Mar 2023 16:30

📔 bystander effect


📋Meaning
A social psychological phenomenon in which the more people there are viewing a crisis or crime, the less likely they are to offer aid to the victim(s). Also known as bystander apathy.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Over 30 people saw the mugging take place, but due to the bystander effect, none of them intervened.
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28 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 by stealth


📋Meaning
In an undetected way; silently and secretly.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The cat burglar entered the office by stealth, and the only evidence he was there was the missing document.
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28 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 Gain ground



📋Meaning
  To become popular, to make progress, to advance.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “As Airbnb gains ground in many cities all over the world, many locals complain that they can no longer find a place to live. Landlords would rather rent their places out to tourists and earn more money.”
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27 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 make someone sick



📋Meaning
  to make someone appalled, shocked or disgusted.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I can’t believe you ate that entire bucket of fried chicken—you make me sick.

🗣 Listening to my sister talk to her boyfriend in her whiny baby voice makes me so sick.
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26 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 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 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 break the ice



📋Meaning
  To do or say something to make people more relaxed in a social situation and get people talking to each other (e.g., party, business meeting, conference, first day of class).


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 At the conference will have several activities to help people break the ice.

🗣 It’s always easiest to break the ice with a few drinks.
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24 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 cloud the issue


📋Meaning
To obfuscate or distract from the topic at hand by introducing irrelevant or misleading information.

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🗣Politicians are always clouding the issue during debates by pointing out their opponents' history in other issues.

🗣Don't cloud the issue with talk about your past achievements, stick to the question I'm asking you.

🗣His muddled explanation only served to cloud the issue further for his students.
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23 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 with (one's) head held high


📋Meaning
Displaying pride and confidence, often (but not always) after something has gone wrong.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Even though I knew I blew the presentation, I walked out of the conference room with my head held high… and then cried in my car.

🗣After hearing that he had been named to the all-star team, Paul walked through the halls with his head held high.
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23 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 be snowed under



📋Meaning
  To be very busy or overwhelmed with something. This phrase evokes the image of being buried under an avalanche.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Kate's not coming tonight because she's snowed under with research for her thesis.

🗣 I'd love to go out to dinner tonight, but I'm totally snowed under at the office right now.
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