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shake one’s booty - dance in a sexy way in which the buttocks move
Examples:
🔹We’ve been working hard all week. I’ll take you to a nightclub where you can shake your booty.
🔹Let's go get some pizza and then shake our booties at the new club downtown!
Video:
Hey. Shake your booty.
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everything but the kitchen sink - almost everything imaginable, even the unnecessary ones
Example:
It was just a simple sleepover but Maria brought everything but the kitchen sink!
Video:
They've got this whole team here...throwing everything but the kitchen sink at this case.
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look down on - to feel that someone is less important than you or does not deserve respect
Examples:
🔹You shouldn´t look down on your brother so much, everyone makes mistakes.
🔹Homeowners often look down on plumbers.
Video:
Look, boy, you so perfect you can look down on me?
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Other ways to say "easy"
📍a walk in the park
📍a piece of cake
📍child's play
📍like taking candy from a baby
📍it's not rocket science
📍like riding a bike
📍as easy as breathing
📍as easy as shooting fish in a barrel
📍cake walk
📍easy like Sunday Morning
📍easy as falling off a log
📍like selling ice cream on a summer day
📍easy as pie
📍easy as abc
📍easy as beans
📍no sweat
📍be born with it
📍be second nature
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Alright, here is the definition for some idioms we had yesterday:
🔹as easy as apple pie - extremely easy
🔹big cheese - an important person, a leader
🔹good egg - just a nice person
🔹be like taking candy from a baby - to be very easy
🔹polish the apple - to attempt to curry favor through insincere or excessive flattery or praise (in other words, you give an apple to a new teacher as a little gift hoping she'll be nice and kind to you)
🔹 take a cake - surpass yourself for better or for worse
Hope next time these idioms will be like taking candy from a baby for you 😉😁
go bananas - become very excited, angry or act crazy
Examples:
🔹She’ll go bananas if she sees the house in this (dirty) condition.
🔹The crowd went bananas when the concert began.
Video:
They can't kill us. Our embassy'll go bananas.
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growing concern - growing anxiety about a situation
Examples:
🔹There is growing concern that America's economic recovery could be derailed by the eurozone crisis.
🔹Yet there is growing concern about the long-term costs of this campaign.
Video:
Look, I just think all this antimutant protesting... underscores the genuine growing concern among most Americans.
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keep on - continue
Example:
🔹Just keep on studying in the same way; you will soon notice the progress.
🔹My sister kept on asking me question after question.
Video:
I'm surprising him. You just keep on surprising him.
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pie in the sky - something nice but unlikely to happen. An empty wish.
Examples:
🔹Turns out that the startup business she planned was just a pie in the sky.
🔹He keeps talking about how he'll move to Los Angeles to be a famous actor, but it's just pie in the sky if you ask me.
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beef up - to strengthen, increase, or make something more effective
Example:
After the incident last week, the security is beefed up all over the city.
Video:
We can take out the password, but it'd help to beef up security around the WOPR.
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wide awake - fully awake
Examples:
🔹I could not relax and still felt wide awake.
🔹He was wide awake and ready to start the day’s work.
Video:
And... You're wide awake!
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let off steam - to do or say something that helps you to get rid of strong feelings or energy
Examples:
🔹Why shouldn't the guy let off a little steam?
🔹She jogs after work to let off steam.
Video:
Sorry about that. Needed to let off a little steam.
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Running around like a headless chicken - to run around doing a lot of things in a disorganized, ineffective manner
Examples:
🔹Maybe you should sit down first and organize your thoughts. You seem to be running around like a headless chicken all day.
🔹Instead of running round like a headless chicken use your efforts in a more productive way.
🔹He ran around like a headless chicken after he missed his flight to the US.
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kick off - start something
Example:
Let´s kick off this meeting by reviewing the last financial quatre.
Video:
He was about to kick off an energy race that was gonna dwarf the arms race.
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eager beaver - a keen and enthusiastic person who works very hard
Examples:
🔹I have nothing against Martha, but she’s such an eager beaver. Always volunteering on new projects and staying up late every day---she makes us all look bad!
🔹The show starts just before 10 p.m., but eager beavers usually begin arriving downtown in early afternoon to seek out a prime viewing spot.
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couch potato - a person who does not lead an active life and would rather stay on the couch, watching TV
Examples:
🔹And be careful with tune and turn: I think I’ll tune in to my favorite TV show and turn into a couch potato.
🔹He's turned into a real couch potato since he subscribed to the sports channel.
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earworm - a catchy song or tune that you can’t seem to get out of your head
Examples:
🔹Ariana's new song has been stuck in my head for a week. I’d do absolutely anything to get rid of this earworm!
🔹Likewise, when Walker Hayes played his earworm Fancy Like, lyrics from the song ran across the banners.
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