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06 Sep 2023 19:01
📔 wide berth
📋Meaning
A good distance (between things, people, etc.). Originally referred to ships.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Once I learned that there was a lice outbreak, I kept a wide berth from all of my students for the rest of the day.
🗣We've been keeping a wide berth from John ever since he dumped our good friend.
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05 Sep 2023 07:51
📔 be not short of a penny (or two)
📋Meaning
To be exceptionally wealthy; to have no concerns regarding money.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣A: "I just heard Sarah just lost her job!" B: "Well, her husband's family isn't short of a penny, so I think they'll be just fine."
🗣I once dated a guy who, though he was never short of a penny or two, was the most miserly person I'd ever met. He wouldn't even tip when we went out to eat!
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04 Sep 2023 08:07
📔on the fiddle
📋Meaning
Engaged in deceitful, fraudulent, or dishonest means of obtaining money.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My career will be over if anyone ever finds out I was on the fiddle during my time as the company treasurer.
🗣There are always politicians on the fiddle, looking for ways to use their positions of power to earn a bit more money.
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03 Sep 2023 07:43
📔 be tipping (it) down
📋Meaning
To be raining very heavily. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣We have a football match scheduled for tomorrow, but if it keeps tipping down like it is today, I'm sure that it will be cancelled.
🗣Looks like it's tipping it down outside again. I guess I won't be cycling to work this morning.
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02 Sep 2023 06:35
📔 get taken to task (by someone)
📋Meaning
To be scolded, rebuked, reprimanded, or criticized (by someone).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I got taken to task by the headmaster for disrupting class again
🗣It's not entirely fair that the bankers are the only ones getting taken to task for the economic collapse, when a great many politicians are to blame as well.
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31 Aug 2023 05:57
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30 Aug 2023 06:04
📔a woman of her word
📋A woman who can be expected to keep or follow through with her promises or intentions; a truthful, trustworthy, or reliable person. (Masculine: "man of his word.")
🗣Bob, I'm a woman of my word. If I tell you I'll be at your house tomorrow morning at 10, then that's when I'll be there.
🗣I've found Mary to be a woman of her word so far, so I'm confident she'll get us the best deal possible.
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29 Aug 2023 08:08
📔caught on the hop
📋To encounter or try to communicate or work with someone at an inopportune time, such as when they are busy or preoccupied; to catch one off guard.
🗣I'll definitely help you with that report later—you just happened to catch me on the hop right now.
🗣If Dean was grumpy, you probably just caught him on the hop.
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28 Aug 2023 09:29
📔 living on the edge
📋Meaning
To have an adventurous or perilous lifestyle; to behave in a manner which creates risks for oneself.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Despite the apparent respectability, he was a man who liked to live on the edge.
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27 Aug 2023 08:57
📔 Fair and square
📋Meaning
Being direct or fair.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣To tell you fair and square, I did everything that I was meant to do, but I still feel unfulfilled.
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26 Aug 2023 08:37
📔 To be in the doldrums
📋Meaning
To be in a low spirit
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣When I got to know about the increasing cases of COVID 19 in my area, I was in the doldrums.
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25 Aug 2023 10:46
📔 the elephant in the room
📋Meaning
a major problem or controversial issue which is obviously present but is avoided as a subject for discussion.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "they've steadfastly ignored the elephant in the room: the ever-growing debt burden on graduates"
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23 Aug 2023 21:40
📔 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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07 Sep 2023 08:34
📔 go through the roof
📋Meaning
to become very angry or upset
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 When they realized he'd lied to them, his parents went through the roof.
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05 Sep 2023 19:04
📔 sitting duck
📋Meaning
a person or thing with no protection against an attack or other source of danger.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Nancy knew she'd be a sitting duck when she raised the trap door.
🗣The senator was a sitting duck because of his unpopular position on school reform.
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04 Sep 2023 20:13
📔 Storm in a teacup (UK idiom)
📋Meaning
A small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 The whole controversy turned out to be a storm in a teacup.
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03 Sep 2023 17:55
📔 Sitting on the fence
📋Meaning
a person's lack of decisiveness, neutrality or hesitance to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition, or inability to decide due to lack of courage.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “The councilman is afraid he'll lose votes if he takes sides on the zoning issue, but he can't sit on the fence forever.”
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02 Sep 2023 19:11
📔 Time flies
📋Meaning
used to observe that time seems to pass very quickly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "people say time flies when you're having fun"
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31 Aug 2023 18:30
📔 Storm in a teacup (UK idiom)
📋Meaning
A small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 The whole controversy turned out to be a storm in a teacup.
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31 Aug 2023 05:50
📔 Sitting on the fence
📋Meaning
a person's lack of decisiveness, neutrality or hesitance to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition, or inability to decide due to lack of courage.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “The councilman is afraid he'll lose votes if he takes sides on the zoning issue, but he can't sit on the fence forever.”
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29 Aug 2023 20:26
📔 raise the roof
📋Meaning
make or cause someone else to make a great deal of noise, especially through cheering.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "when I finally scored the fans raised the roof"
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28 Aug 2023 19:39
📔 the big picture
📋Meaning
the situation as a whole.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "he's so involved in the minutiae that he often overlooks the big picture"
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27 Aug 2023 20:04
📔 roll (one's) eyes
📋Meaning
To turn one's eyes upward or around in a circle, usually as an expression of exasperation, annoyance, impatience, or disdain.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Don't you roll your eyes at me, young lady! You will finish your homework this instant, or you can kiss your weekend goodbye!
🗣I just rolled my eyes as my dad told another one of his corny jokes.
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26 Aug 2023 19:39
📔 blow (one's) stack
📋Meaning
To become very angry, often quickly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Oh man, Dad is going to blow his stack when he sees that I wrecked his car!
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25 Aug 2023 21:06
📔 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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24 Aug 2023 18:59
📔 seep out (of something)
📋Meaning
Of a liquid, gel, paste, etc., to leak or flow out of some crack, breach, or flaw in something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I realized there was a fire downstairs when I noticed smoke seeping into our bedroom.
🗣I made sure to make the container airtight so no moisture seeps in.
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24 Aug 2023 08:51
📔 The sky is the limit
📋Meaning
If you say the sky is the limit, you mean that there is nothing to prevent someone or something from being very successful.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 They have found that, in terms of both salary and career success, the sky is the limit.
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23 Aug 2023 12:47
📔 work the room
📋Meaning
To interact with many people at an event or function. Often, but not always, applied to business situations.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣At networking events, Ben totally works the room, with the goal of meeting as many people as he possibly can.
🗣At parties, my dad always works the room and chats with everyone, but I'm too shy for that.
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