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28 Sep 2024 14:00
English phrasal verb - “act up”
Act up has 2 meanings.
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26 Sep 2024 13:25
English idiom - “old flame” 🔥
An old flame refers to a romantic partner from the past.
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24 Sep 2024 20:04
📔 In for a penny, in for a pound
📋Meaning
That someone is intentionally investing his time or money for a particular project or task.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣When Athlead was booming, Jim was in for penny in for pounds, that’s how much dedicated he was.
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23 Sep 2024 22:36
📔 Left out in the cold
📋Meaning
Being ignored
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The changes benefit management but leave the workers out in the cold.
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22 Sep 2024 22:33
📔 Blow Hot and Cold
📋Meaning
“blow hot and cold” is used to describe someone who constantly changes their opinion, attitude, or behaviour towards a particular thing or person.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The changes benefit “Tom has been blowing hot and cold in his relationship with Lisa. Sometimes he showers her with affection and attention, and other times he acts distant and uninterested.”
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21 Sep 2024 22:08
📔 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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18 Sep 2024 12:09
📔 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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17 Sep 2024 10:45
📔 In the fast lane
📋Meaning
A life filled with excitement.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣When Chris turned forty, he decided to live his life in the fast lane and quit his job for his hobbies.
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16 Sep 2024 09:04
📔 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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14 Sep 2024 20:48
📔 cloud the issue
📋Meaning
To obfuscate or distract from the topic at hand by introducing irrelevant or misleading information.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Politicians are always clouding the issue during debates by pointing out their opponents' history in other issues.
🗣Don't cloud the issue with talk about your past achievements, stick to the question I'm asking you.
🗣His muddled explanation only served to cloud the issue further for his students.
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11 Sep 2024 22:28
📔 canary in a/the coal mine
📋Meaning
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.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Wildlife in disaster movies assumes the role of the canary in the coal mine, fleeing the scene when catastrophe is imminent.
🗣Unaware that he had been given the test drug, John was used as a canary in the coal mine to see its effects on the human mind.
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10 Sep 2024 11:08
📔 go to the mattresses
📋Meaning
To enter into or prepare for a lengthy war, battle, or conflict; to adopt a combative or warlike position.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣While Republicans have shown some flexibility over other contentious issues, it looks as though they're ready to go to the mattresses over the issue of gun control.
🗣We'll go to the mattresses if that's what it takes to defend ourselves!
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25 Sep 2024 11:16
📔 backpedal
📋Meaning
To quickly and often abruptly reverse or retreat from one's position or opinion on a given subject. Refers to pedaling backwards on a bicycle (done to apply the brakes on fixed-gear bikes), or to taking quick, backward steps, as in football or boxing.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The actor had to backpedal when he let slip a racist remark during the press conference.
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24 Sep 2024 11:26
📔 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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23 Sep 2024 11:01
📔 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?"
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22 Sep 2024 12:53
📔 Beside yourself with joy
📋Meaning
To be extremely happy.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I can see that you are beside yourself with joy on being selected for the job, congratulations.
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21 Sep 2024 11:50
📔 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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19 Sep 2024 06:18
📔 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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17 Sep 2024 21:54
📔 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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16 Sep 2024 20:21
📔 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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15 Sep 2024 10:19
📔 with (one's) head held high
📋Meaning
Displaying pride and confidence, often (but not always) after something has gone wrong.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Even though I knew I blew the presentation, I walked out of the conference room with my head held high… and then cried in my car.
🗣After hearing that he had been named to the all-star team, Paul walked through the halls with his head held high.
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14 Sep 2024 08:55
📔 lap up
📋Meaning
To ingest something, usually a liquid, by licking. A noun or pronoun can be used between "lap" and "up."
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Those kittens must have been hungry—they've already lapped up all the milk in the saucer.
Someone visiting you 🏠 - Ways to knock on the door 🚪
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12 Sep 2024 10:06
📔 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.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Over 30 people saw the mugging take place, but due to the bystander effect, none of them intervened.
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11 Sep 2024 09:38
📔 dead asleep
📋Meaning
In a deep, immovable sleep.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was dead asleep after my 12-hour shift; I didn't even hear the neighbor's car alarm going off!
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09 Sep 2024 22:40
📔 go out with the girls
📋Meaning
To go and socialize somewhere with a group of exclusively female friends.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I love my boyfriend and all, but sometimes, I just need to go out with the girls!
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08 Sep 2024 20:52
English idiom - “old flame” 🔥
An old flame refers to a romantic partner from the past.
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