📔 brood over
📋Meaning
To worry anxiously or be despondent about something or someone, especially at great length and in isolation.
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📔 cloud the issue
📋Meaning
To obfuscate or distract from the topic at hand by introducing irrelevant or misleading information.
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📔 canary in a/the coal mine
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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.
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📔 go to the mattresses
📋Meaning
To enter into or prepare for a lengthy war, battle, or conflict; to adopt a combative or warlike position.
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📔 with (one's) head held high
📋Meaning
Displaying pride and confidence, often (but not always) after something has gone wrong.
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📔 lap up
📋Meaning
To ingest something, usually a liquid, by licking. A noun or pronoun can be used between "lap" and "up."
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📔 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.
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📔 dead asleep
📋Meaning
In a deep, immovable sleep.
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📔 go out with the girls
📋Meaning
To go and socialize somewhere with a group of exclusively female friends.
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English idiom - “spin/turn/roll in (one’s) grave” 🔄🪦
This idiom is used to say that someone who is dead would be angry or upset about something happening now.
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English idiom - “go for broke” 🎰
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