📔 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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📔 the last straw
📋Meaning
a further difficulty or annoyance, typically minor in itself but coming on top of a series of difficulties, that makes a situation unbearable.
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🗣"his affair was the last straw"
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📔 be the butt of someone's jokes
📋Meaning
to be a person who is joked about or laughed at
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣He was sick of being the butt of their jokes.
🗣No one wants to be the butt of a joke.
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📔 knock one's socks off
📋Meaning
to impress someone
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🗣This song will knock your socks off.
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📔 close as the bark to the tree
📋Meaning
As connected as is possible. Often used to describe a particularly intimate relationship or friendship.
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🗣Jenna and Elise are as close as the bark to the tree—I rarely see one without the other!
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📔 that's my girl
📋Meaning
An expression used to express praise or pride for a female with whom one has a close relationship, especially one's daughter.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣That's my girl, another report card with straight A's!It gave me a lot of encouragement to hear my parents shouting "That's our girl!" during the football game.
🗣You came to bail me out, sweetie? That's my girl!
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📔 slanging match
📋Meaning
A bitter argument or dispute in which each side hurls numerous insults, accusations, or verbal abuse at one another. Primarily heard in UK.
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🗣At first, I thought we were just going through a rough patch in our relationship, but lately, it seems like every night Janet and I get into a slanging match with each other. It might be time to end things.
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📔 within arm's reach
📋Meaning
Close enough to touch, either literally or hypothetically. Easily attainable.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Can you pass me that book over there? It's within arm's reach of you.
🗣Once I found out I had an A in Chemistry, I knew that 4.0 GPA was within arm's reach.
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📔 go for a spin (to some place)
📋Meaning
To go for a brief, leisurely drive (to some place).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Hey Noah, fancy going for a spin to the grocery store with me?
🗣Jenny just got a new car for her birthday, so I think we're going to go for a spin after school.
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📔 Peter Pan syndrome
📋Meaning
A psychological state or condition in which a grown person cannot or refuses to act like an adult; a stubborn and persistent immaturity found in an adult person.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I seem cursed to only find men who have some damned Peter Pan syndrome. I'm tired of going out with guys who act like children!
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📔 call it a day
📋Meaning
decide or agree to stop doing something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"after three marriages, many men would have been more than ready to call it a day"
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📔 A dime a dozen
📋Meaning
very common and of no particular value.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"experts in this field are a dime a dozen"
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📔 Pull yourself together
📋Meaning
recover control of one's emotions./ Calm down.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"you've got to pull yourself together and find a job"
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📔 A blessing in disguise
📋Meaning
an apparent misfortune that eventually has good results.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"being omitted from the World Cup squad was a blessing in disguise"
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📔 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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📔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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📔 all sharped up
📋Meaning
Very nicely dressed.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The guys in the wedding party are all sharped up for the ceremony—they look so handsome!
🗣I have to be all sharped up at this event tonight—a lot of important people will be there.
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📔 beauty queen
📋Meaning
A woman who has won, or looks as if she could win, a beauty pageant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣When that beauty queen walked in, everyone's heads turned.
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📔 yardarm to yardarm
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📔one after another
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