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04 May 2023 06:58
📔 A rising tide lifts all boats
📋Meaning
When an economy is performing well, all of the people involved will benefit from it.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “When the economy showed the first signs of recovering, everyone started investing and spending more. A rising tide lifts all boats.“
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03 May 2023 06:57
📔 the world is your oyster
📋Meaning
used to say that you can do anything or go anywhere you want in life.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 That's awesome you're learning English. With English, the world is your oyster!
🗣 You're young and beautiful. Don't be sad, the world is your oyster.
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02 May 2023 05:30
📔 On thin ice
📋Meaning
1 ) in a dangerous position where you could fall or have an unfavorable result;
2) in a risky or uncertain situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 If you keep charging things you can't afford on your credit cards you'll be treading on thin ice in a very short period of time.
🗣 I'm on thin ice with my teacher because I haven't turned in my homework three times this week.
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30 Apr 2023 17:30
📔 Find your feet
📋Meaning
means that you’re still adjusting and getting used to the new environment.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Lee, how’s your son doing in America?”
“He’s doing okay. He’s learned where the college is but is still finding his feet with everything else. I guess it’ll take time for him to get used to it all.”
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29 Apr 2023 17:30
📔 pull someone's leg
📋Meaning
deceive someone playfully; tease someone.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"getting married—are you pulling my leg?"
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28 Apr 2023 17:31
📔be not worth a brass farthing
📋Meaning
To be completely worthless or useless; to have little or no value. Refers to farthings (obsolete British units of currency, worth one-quarter of a penny), formerly made from a copper alloy (brass). Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was so excited when my grandfather said he'd give me his car, but this old clunker isn't worth a brass farthing.
🗣Over the years working here, I've come to realize that the boss's word isn't worth a brass farthing.
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27 Apr 2023 17:31
📔 be the pits
📋Meaning
To be particularly bad, unfortunate, or awful, especially of a situation or outcome.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Well, this is the pits. I absolutely cannot believe such a huge thunderstorm came through just as we were getting our picnic set up.
🗣I was so excited about this job when I first started. I wish I would have known it'd be the pits.
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27 Apr 2023 05:30
📔 turn a blind eye
📋Meaning
pretend not to notice.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"please, don't turn a blind eye to what is happening"
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26 Apr 2023 05:30
📔 beat the rush
📋Meaning
to get there first
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I always do my shopping early to beat the rush.
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25 Apr 2023 05:30
📔 raise Cain
📋Meaning
Behave in a rowdy or disruptive way
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣He'll raise Cain when he finds out I lost his watch.
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24 Apr 2023 05:30
📔 break a leg!
📋Meaning
good luck!
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"Remember, the show must go on! Good luck and break a leg!"
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22 Apr 2023 17:30
📔 wet behind the ears
📋Meaning
lacking experience; immature.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"he's a nice young fellow but a bit wet behind the ears"
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21 Apr 2023 17:30
📔 through thick and thin
📋Meaning
under all circumstances, no matter how difficult.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "they stuck together through thick and thin"
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21 Apr 2023 05:30
📔 bump heads with
📋Meaning
To clash with another person on a particular issue.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Monica and I are always bumping heads with each other about how to go about these reports because she wants to start writing, while I think we should research first.
🗣I just know I'm going to have to bump heads with Ted again about this budget—we always want to cut different things.
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04 May 2023 17:30
📔 a sore loser
📋Meaning
Someone who complains, becomes upset, or otherwise reacts very negatively when they fail or lose at something competitive.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Don't be such a sore loser, Jim. I know you pride yourself on your racquetball skills, but I beat you fair and square.You know how much of a sore loser he is, so why would you keep reminding him that he lost the match? Of course he's going to go off and pout.
🗣We didn't want to be sore losers, so we went and congratulated the other team after they won.
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03 May 2023 17:30
📔 bounce off the walls
📋Meaning
To be very active and energetic to the point of hyperactivity.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣How much sugar did you give the kids? They're bouncing off the walls!
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02 May 2023 17:30
📔 tell (someone's) fortune
📋Meaning
To (profess to) anticipate and inform someone about certain outcomes or events in their near or distant future.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣This old lady in the apartment next to mine offered to tell my fortune for ten bucks. I never go in for stuff like that, but I'll admit that I'm a bit curious.
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01 May 2023 17:30
📔 bone-idle
📋Meaning
Extremely lazy.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Can you please get Billy to go to the playground or something? He's just laying around all day, being bone-idle.
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30 Apr 2023 05:31
📔 shed a tear
📋Meaning
To cry or weep, especially from grief; to grieve or mourn in general.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Everyone in the room was shedding tears by the end of the ceremony.
🗣Their relationship had soured so much over the years that John didn't shed a tear when he heard of his brother's death.
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29 Apr 2023 05:30
📔 take a piece out of (one)
📋Meaning
To harshly reprimand one.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My parents are going to take a piece out of me when they find out I crashed the car.
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28 Apr 2023 05:31
📔 leave a bad taste in mouth
📋Meaning
To give one a negative impression (based on something that has already happened).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I don't know, man, the fact that he lied to you just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
🗣The way they conducted the interview left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't think I'd accept the job even if they offered it.
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26 Apr 2023 17:30
📔 one-up (someone)
📋Meaning
To make a point of outdoing, outperforming, outclassing, etc., someone.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I hate telling stories around Jack because he always tries to one-up you with some fabulous anecdote of his own.
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25 Apr 2023 17:30
📔 brace of shakes
📋Meaning
Instantly, quickly, or in an extremely short amount of time, as of a task or event. "Brace," taken from the old French for the arms' breadth from hand to hand, means twice; the phrase as a whole refers either to an old nautical term, meaning the time it takes the sail to shake twice as it takes up the wind, or else the short time it takes to shake a dice-box twice. Often used in the phrase "in a brace of shakes."
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'll have that ready for you in a brace of shakes.
🗣We'll be there in a brace of shakes.
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24 Apr 2023 17:30
📔 the toast of (the town)
📋Meaning
Someone who is especially well-liked, regarded, or admired in a certain place.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The young entrepreneur's new tech innovation has made him the toast of the town in Silicon Valley.
🗣I hope you enjoy being the toast of London now, because such fame is always fleeting.
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23 Apr 2023 17:30
📔 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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22 Apr 2023 05:30
📔 until all hours (of the day and night)
📋Meaning
Until a very late hour of the night or early hour of the morning.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Johnny keeps taking the car and staying out until all hours, and I just don't know what to do anymore!
🗣My boyfriend lives in another state, so to make up for the long distance, we stay up talking until all hours of the day and night.
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20 Apr 2023 17:31
📔 jam session
📋Meaning
an often impromptu performance by a group especially of jazz musicians that is characterized by improvisation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 The musical siblings then invite Lisa over to Billie’s studio for a special jam session.
🗣 Playing some favorites by The Allman Brothers Band during a jam session led to the birth of tribute group Midnight Rider.
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