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03 June 2024 09:14
💠 fix (1) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
to influence the result of a contest, a vote, or a race by illegal or unethical means
❕For example
🔺The result of the football game was fixed by a group of gamblers who bribed the referee to make decisions that favoured one team.
🔺The fixing of matches, or match-fixing, has been a problem in sports such as boxing and soccer.
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02 June 2024 11:13
📒pack up (2)
📖Meaning
If something packs up, it stops working and needs to be fixed.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 Why does my air conditioner have to pack up on Friday? I can't get it fixed til Monday, and it's going to be a really hot weekend!
💬 Stan's printer has packed up again! Why doesn't he just get a new one?
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01 June 2024 12:05
💠 juicy 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
very interesting in a scandalous or lurid way
❕For example
🔺I love reading Lucy's blog about Hollywood movie stars. It's full of juicy gossip about the private lives of all the biggest stars.
🔺Harry writes a newspaper column about juicy scandals in Washington. There's corruption and crime and drugs and sex, and it's great fun to read, of course.
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30 May 2024 23:44
📒 Women will have the last word
📖Meaning
A man cannot win an argument with a woman. Women talk more than men. They can always add something more to what they are saying.
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29 May 2024 20:19
📚in a nutshell
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "in a nutshell" if you're about to describe something as briefly as possible, or you're going to sum something up.
❗️For example
🔸It's a very complex situation, but the problem is, in a nutshell, a lack of sales.
🔸The president's in trouble and the reason, in a nutshell, is that people no longer trust him.
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28 May 2024 19:48
📒 Waste not, want not
📖Meaning
If we do not waste things we will not be short of things. If we use our resources carefully, we shall never be in need.
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27 May 2024 19:56
📚find your feet
✍🏾Meaning
If you're still finding your feet, you're still adjusting to a new place or a new situation.
❗️For example
🔸It takes a while to find your feet when you start a new job, but you'll soon figure out who's who and what's what.
🔸Gary's been studying here for three months and he still hasn't found his feet. Maybe he should try something else.
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26 May 2024 11:35
📒 Facts are stubborn things
📖Meaning
We cannot avoid the truth, even when it is not what we want to hear or express.
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25 May 2024 10:40
📚give the green light
✍🏾Meaning
If you give something the green light, you give permission for it to be done, or allow it to happen.
❗️For example
🔸The government has given the green light to our tree-planting project, so we can go ahead and start organizing things.
🔸As soon as our CEO gives the new product the green light, we'll start planning production.
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23 May 2024 22:30
💠 earworm 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
a song that repeats annoyingly in one's head
❕For example
🔺I've got this damn earworm in my head and no matter how much I try I can't get the damn song to go away.
🔺The only way to get rid of an earworm is to hear another song and start thinking of that one instead.
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22 May 2024 11:01
📒keep up (3)
📖Meaning
If somebody or something keeps you up, you cannot go to bed.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The noise from my neighbour's party kept me up most of the night.
💬 The noise from my neighbour's party kept me up most of the night.
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21 May 2024 10:47
💠 thick (2) 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
full-figured without appearing overweight
❕For example
🔺That chick is thick, dude! She has meat on her bones in all the right places; her thighs, breasts, hips, and her booty.
🔺Jamie says some girls who clearly have a weight problem try to kid themselves by claiming they are thick, but not fat.
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20 May 2024 10:33
📒look after
📖Meaning
to make sure something or someone has everything they need and is healthy
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 When I'm too old to look after myself, my children will look after me, I hope.
💬 Can you look after my bag while I go to the toilet?
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19 May 2024 13:02
💠 old bat 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
an unpleasant old woman
❕For example
🔺The old bat who lives downstairs called the cops when we were having a party.
🔺We used to think Mrs Jones was just another bad-tempered old bat, but she's actually a lovely lady when you get to know her.
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18 May 2024 10:33
📒hold down
📖Meaning
to stop something from rising by pressing down on it or putting a heavy object on it
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 The vet's assistant held down our dog while the vet gave her the injection.
💬 I held the board down with my foot while I hammered it in place.
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02 June 2024 22:02
📒 A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
📖Meaning
A very small hint is enough to convey our meaning. It is not always necessary to say what we want explicitly.
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01 June 2024 20:45
📚answer the call of nature
✍🏾Meaning
If you answer the call of nature, you go to the toilet.
❗️For example
🔸Could we stop somewhere? I need to answer the call of nature.
🔸Does anyone need to answer the call of nature before we set off?
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30 May 2024 11:00
📒give up (1)
📖Meaning
If you give up, you stop trying to do something because it's too hard or because it can't be done.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 I know it's hard to find a job these days, but don't give up. Keep trying and sooner or later you'll get one.
💬 I decided to fix my printer myself, but the problem was too serious so I gave up trying and took it to the repair shop.
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29 May 2024 09:49
💠 footy 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
Australian Rules Football, Aussie Rules Football
❕For example
🔺I grew up in Melbourne in Australia, so when I was kid I was crazy about footy and about my favourite club, St. Kilda. And I still love footy today!
🔺Hey Mark! You wanna go to the footy on Saturday? Collingwood's playing St. Kilda at the M.C.G., so it should be a beauty!
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28 May 2024 10:02
📒take up (1)
📖Meaning
to fill an area of space or a period of time
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 We're selling the dining table because it takes up too much room in our new apartment.
💬 I don't have much spare time, and exercising takes most of that up anyway.
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26 May 2024 23:42
💠 kef | kif 🇺🇸
✍🏾Meaning
plant material that's smoked or ingested for its mind-altering effects, such as cannabis, marijuana or hashish
❕For example
🔺While he was in Lebanon, Johanne smoked kef through a hookah with his Lebanese friends.
🔺Our history professor said that kif has been smoked in India and the Middle East for thousands of years.
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25 May 2024 20:39
📒turn around
📖Meaning
to change something unsuccessful into something successful
🤓For example ⤵️
💬 What do you think the government should do to turn the economy around?
💬 If she wants to turn her life around she needs to stop taking drugs and drinking alcohol.
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23 May 2024 11:03
📒 They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind
📖Meaning
A warning that we must expect to suffer serious consequences as the result of our own bad actions. We get back what we give out.
Origin: The idea of cause and effect is expressed by several religions or philosophies. This particular proverb is an allusion to The Bible (Hosea 8:7): "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..."
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21 May 2024 22:20
📚wash your hands of something
✍🏾Meaning
If you wash your hands of something that you were involved in, you decide to stop being involved in it after losing your interest or belief in it.
❗️For example
🔸She washed her hands of the whole project after she found out that people had been stealing donated money.
🔸Jim washed his hands of politics long ago after realising how corrupt most politicians were.
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20 May 2024 21:24
📒 A good man is hard to find
📖Meaning
This saying talks about the difficulties for women in finding a suitable male partner.
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19 May 2024 20:57
📚pick up the tab | pick up the bill
✍🏾Meaning
If you pick up the tab, or pick up the bill, you pay for yourself and your friends in a restaurant or a bar.
❗️For example
🔸When people go out to celebrate a birthday in Thailand, whoever's having the birthday picks up the tab.
🔸In general in Asia, the person with the highest status picks up the bill in a restaurant.
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18 May 2024 20:00
📒 Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich
📖Meaning
God makes no distinction between people with money and people without money.
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