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22 Feb 2023 04:32

📔 tickle the ivories / ivory




📋Meaning
  play the piano



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I learned to tickle the ivories from a very young age so I've been dreaming of getting a grand piano for most of my life.

🗣 My grandfather used to tickle the ivories for a living.
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21 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 bore the pants off




📋Meaning
  to be extremely boring or uninteresting to someone else.




🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Spending the weekend with my in-laws really bored the pants off me.

🗣 Not only do my grandfather's good-old-days stories bore the pants off me but he also tells the same stories over and over again.
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20 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 unsung hero




📋Meaning
  Someone who has done something heroic or achieved greatness but has not been recognized or celebrated for the achievement



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Two men were unsung heroes rescuing several puppies from the fire after the police determined it was too dangerous to enter the burning house.

🗣 My colleague was really the unsung hero for the development of our most successful product this year.
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19 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 Break the bank



📋Meaning
  To be very expensive.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Taking a week-long vacation would break the bank. There’s no way I could afford to do it.”
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18 Feb 2023 04:30

📔dig your heels in



📋Meaning
to refuse to change your plans or ideas, especially when someone is trying to persuade you to do so.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Even though the developer offered them more than their houses were worth, the owners dug their heels in and refused to sell up and make way for the office block.

🗣When their record company told the band to change their style and make more commercial music, the band dug their heels in and refused to change.
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17 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 Cut the mustard



📋Meaning
  To meet acceptable standards.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Unless you raise the stair treads up, this project won’t cut the mustard. 

🗣 "I didn't cut the mustard as a hockey player"
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15 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 Better late than never



📋Meaning
  It is better to be late than to never arrive or never complete a task.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "it took them the majority of the campaign to come to that conclusion, but better late than never"

🗣 It's been a long time coming but better late than never. 
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14 Feb 2023 14:32

😃What do you want?

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14 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 Beat around the bush



📋Meaning
  To avoid the difficult part of the conversation.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Quit beating around the bush.
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12 Feb 2023 16:31

📔(one's) other half


📋Meaning
One's spouse, romantic partner, or boyfriend/girlfriend.

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🗣I'd love to come out to the bars with you after work, but I'd better check in with my other half to make sure we don't have any plans for this evening.

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11 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 in front of (one's) very eyes


📋Meaning
Right in plain sight or while one is watching.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Someone smashed into my parked car in front of my very eyes.Each day, in front of our very eyes, we see signs of poverty and need on our city's streets.
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10 Feb 2023 17:30

📔 bare (one's) teeth


📋Meaning
To display an angry, violent, or threatening reaction to or against something or someone, as does a dog or wolf when threatened.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I will bare my teeth to anyone who tries to take away my land.

🗣We seemed to be getting along just fine, but she suddenly bared her teeth when I brought up religion.
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22 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 brood over


📋Meaning
To worry anxiously or be despondent about something or someone, especially at great length and in isolation.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I know you're upset about failing your exam, but don't brood over it all weekend.

🗣Tom's been brooding over our financial situation ever since he got laid off last month.
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21 Feb 2023 16:31

📔 broken record


📋Meaning
A person or thing that repeats itself over and over again. Likened to vinyl records that when severely scratched (i.e., "broken") can loop over the same recorded segment endlessly.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I feel like a broken record having to tell you this each day, but please clean your room!
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20 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 a bridge too far


📋Meaning
cliché An act or plan whose ambition overreaches its capability, resulting in or potentially leading to difficulty or failure. Taken from the 1974 book A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan, which details the Allies' disastrous attempts to capture German-controlled bridges in the Netherlands during World War II.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The multi-million-dollar purchase of the small startup proved a bridge too far for the social media company, as the added revenue couldn't make up for the cost in the end.

🗣Look, I'm happy to help you guys out, but I'm not willing be the primary investor in your invention—that's just a bridge too far.Apparently, signing an A-list player is just a bridge too far for this team! They'd rather wallow in their mediocrity, I guess.
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19 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 break into a smile


📋Meaning
To start smiling.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Even though she scolded me for disrupting class, I'm pretty sure I saw Ms. Miller break into a smile for a second.
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18 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 boots and all


📋Meaning
With maximum effort or enthusiasm; completely and without restraint. Primarily heard in Australia, New Zealand.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣If we set about digging that trench boots and all, then we should be finished before lunchtime.
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17 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 blood in the water


📋Meaning
The exposure of a competitive weakness in an opponent that arouses increased competitive aggression in others. Likened to the literal presence of blood in water that causes aquatic predators (such as sharks) to seek out and attack prey.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣After their opponents' star striker left the match with an injury, the home team smelled blood in the water and brought on their attack with everything they had.
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15 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 big break


📋Meaning
A fortuitous moment, opportunity, or turn of events of great consequence, especially as relates to one's career.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣A fortuitous moment, opportunity, or turn of events of great consequence, especially as relates to one's career.

🗣I had a big break when a movie director saw me in an improv group and offered me an audition for his new film.
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14 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 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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14 Feb 2023 04:51

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13 Feb 2023 16:30

📔 a bit of a stretch


📋Meaning
A mild exaggeration beyond the truth or what is likely the case.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'm not too fond of taxes either, but it's a bit of a stretch to claim they are the cause of all our problems.

🗣A: "The government is covering up all sorts of extraterrestrial activity." B: "Come on now, don't you think that's a bit of a stretch?"

🗣He still doesn't have the votes? Then I guess it was a bit of a stretch for him to say he'd get the bill passed this week.
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13 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 At the drop of a hat (part of a sentence)



📋Meaning
  To do something without any hesitation.


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🗣 If Tara hears her favorite song, she’ll belt out the lyrics at the drop of a hat.
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12 Feb 2023 17:01

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📔 third time lucky / third time's the charm



📋Meaning
  the third time you try to do something you succeed



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🗣  I applied for a job with the United Nations three years in a row and finally got offered a job. As they say third time lucky!

🗣Most people give up the first time they fail. Too bad they forget that third time's the charm.
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11 Feb 2023 04:30

📔 Add insult to injury (part of a sentence)



📋Meaning
  To add another bad situation on top of an existing one.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 To add insult to injury, it started to rain after I locked my keys in my car.
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