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18 April 2024 08:28
📔 The grass is greener on the other side
📋Meaning
other people always seem to be in a better situation than you, although they may not be
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Our bookkeeper always imagined that the grass is greener on the other side. She quit her job to pursue a legal education.
🗣 Bob always thinks the grass is greener elsewhere, which accounts for his constant job changes.
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17 April 2024 11:33
📔 Mad as a hatter (UK idiom)
📋Meaning
Completely mad.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I know some of my students think I'm as mad as a hatter because of my weird methods.
🗣 I'll be mad as a hatter if I have to deal with these screaming toddlers for much longer.
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16 April 2024 07:30
📔 cut corners
📋Meaning
do something perfunctorily so as to save time or money.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "there is always a temptation to cut corners when time is short"
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15 April 2024 08:06
📔 as high as a kite
📋Meaning
intoxicated with drugs or alcohol.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I tried to talk to her after the party, but she was as high as a kite.
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14 April 2024 10:45
📔 picturesque
📋Meaning
visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty style.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 the picturesque covered bridges of New England
🗣 the picturesque narrow street s of the old city.
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13 April 2024 10:53
📔 through thick and thin
📋Meaning
under all circumstances, no matter how difficult.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "they stuck together through thick and thin"
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12 April 2024 13:08
📔 Packed like sardines
📋Meaning
What do you see when you open up a can of sardines? Yes, the fish crammed inside the can. So packed like sardines describes a place or situation that’s very crowded with people (or animals)—for example, a concert hall or sports event.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Were you at the football game last night? The stadium was packed like sardines.”
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09 April 2024 11:00
📔 Buy a lemon
📋Meaning
To buy a lemon means to buy something (usually a motor vehicle) that doesn’t work well and is therefore worthless.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “The car looked so new and shiny I had no way of knowing I was buying a lemon.”
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08 April 2024 13:13
📔 Have a sweet tooth
📋Meaning
Do you like eating cakes, candy and other sweet-tasting food? If you do, then you can say you have a sweet tooth.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Yes, I definitely have a sweet tooth. I can never walk past a bakery and not stop to buy myself a slice of chocolate cake.”
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07 April 2024 13:06
📔 A storm is brewing
📋Meaning
There will be trouble or emotional upset in the near future.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “She decided to go ahead with their wedding, even though all they’ve been doing lately is arguing. I can sense a storm is brewing.”
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06 April 2024 13:37
📔 Calm before the storm
📋Meaning
An unusually quiet period before a period of upheaval (problems, chaos).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “The strange quietness in town made her feel peaceful. Little did she know, it was just the calm before the storm.”
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04 April 2024 20:43
📔 bad omen
📋Meaning
A sign, either real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣It was a bad omen when my girlfriend broke up with me the day before my final exams.
🗣All of the recent natural disasters are a bad omen for the future of the planet.
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03 April 2024 11:10
📔 Weather a storm
📋Meaning
To survive a dangerous event or effectively deal with a difficult situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Last year, they had some financial difficulties when her husband was fired. Together, they weathered the storm and figured out how to keep going.”
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02 April 2024 13:15
📔 When it rains, it pours
📋Meaning
Bad things occur in large numbers, but many big things happen all at once.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “First he was laid off, then his wife got into a car accident. When it rains, it pours.“
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18 April 2024 21:47
📔 a free bit of advice
📋Meaning
A suggestion, opinion, or piece of advice that was unrequested or unsolicited by the recipient.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Allow me to give you a free bit of advice, my friend: don't say something you'll end up regretting later.
🗣I know you're worried about your kids, but here's a free bit of advice—you can't protect them from every little thing.
🗣Hey, here's a free bit of advice for you during your internship—always be kind and polite. People remember if you treat them well.
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17 April 2024 20:54
📔 funny feeling
📋Meaning
An intuition or premonition about something; a sense of foreknowledge about a situation, condition, or set of circumstances.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I have a funny feeling that this meeting isn't going to end in our favor.
🗣 I have this funny feeling that I've met this person before.
🗣I'm worried about our relationship. I got this funny feeling when I was talking to her last night.
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16 April 2024 20:32
📔 a good voice to beg bacon
📋Meaning
Used to mock someone's voice as being strange, unpleasant, or inadequate (e.g., for singing). Bacon, being a dietary staple in older times, was often used as a metaphor for financial stability or wealth; having the voice of one who must "beg bacon," then, means having a harsh voice, like someone who is undernourished.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Did you hear the way that singer was screeching last night? I'm glad we didn't stay too long, he had a good voice to beg bacon.
🗣I love Alice, but, my goodness, the girl has a good voice to beg bacon! Please do not let her sign up for the talent show.
🗣I like to sing, but only in the shower—I know I have a good voice to beg bacon.
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15 April 2024 22:45
📔 harrowing experience
📋Meaning
An experience that is frightening, chilling, or disturbing, either due to an implied or actual element of danger, or from being physically or emotionally unpleasant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣With so much traffic, cycling in this city can be a harrowing experience.
🗣Walking through that graveyard last night was quite the harrowing experience.
🗣The film is very good, but it's a bit of a harrowing experience; it doesn't shy away from intense subject matter.
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14 April 2024 23:46
📔 against the collar
📋Meaning
Difficult, exhausting, or problematic. The phrase originates from the collar on a horse's harness, which tightens on the horse's neck when it travels uphill. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was doing fine in the marathon, but it was a bit against the collar for the last couple miles.
🗣I don't think I have time to meet you today. Work has been a bit against the collar recently.
🗣against the collar recently.Getting this late-breaking story finished in time for tomorrow's newspaper was somewhat against the collar, but it's done now, thankfully.
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13 April 2024 21:26
📔 alarm bell
📋Meaning
A sudden warning or intimation of danger, risk, or ill fortune. (Often pluralized.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Alarm bells were going off in my head when I saw the panicked expression on her face.
🗣The new report set alarm bells ringing among the board members because it forecasts a large decrease in enrollment.
🗣A: "Her new boyfriend's anger management issues don't seem to be setting off an alarm bell for her." B: "Yikes, the situation is worse than I thought."
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12 April 2024 21:57
📔 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
📋Meaning
proverb Compensation or retribution that is (or should be) of an equal amount or degree to the injury or offense that was originally dealt. The saying comes from various passages in the Bible, including in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I cannot be placated by paltry excuses of reparation! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—this I demand from all who have wronged me.
🗣Some countries have laws that punish crimes with an eye for an eye, most often that killing someone will result in one's death.
🗣The world would be a safer place if more people in power would discourage the practice of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
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09 April 2024 22:06
📔 fox guarding the henhouse
📋Meaning
A person likely to exploit the information or resources that they have been charged to protect or control.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My sister is going to put her ex-convict brother-in-law in charge of her business, and I'm worried he'll be like a fox guarding the henhouse.
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08 April 2024 21:55
📔 fresh legs
📋Meaning
In sports, one or more substitute players who have not yet participated in a given game or match, thus having more energy than the players they are replacing.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Their offense is completely wearing out our defense—it's time to get some fresh legs on the field!
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07 April 2024 22:33
📔 15 minutes of fame
📋Meaning
A brief period of celebrity or notoriety. The term was coined by artist Andy Warhol.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Jane had her 15 minutes of fame when she appeared on the nightly news broadcast.
🗣That viral video gave Sam his 15 minutes of fame.
🗣I've seen what celebrity does to people, so I'm really not interested in getting 15 minutes of fame.
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06 April 2024 21:11
📔 backslider
📋Meaning
One who reverts or relapses into bad habits, unethical or immoral behavior, or criminal activity.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣We've tried to help her quit smoking, but she's a bit of a backslider.
🗣Jimmy's too much of a backslider to stay true to the practices of the church.
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04 April 2024 08:50
📔 banker's hours
📋Meaning
A limited work schedule (as banks were once known for having short work days and being closed on holidays and weekends).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣You won't be able to reach her on a Saturday—she keeps banker's hours.
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02 April 2024 22:55
📔 case of the dropsy
📋Meaning
A fictitious "condition" characterized by continually dropping things from one's hands. It is a play on the term "dropsy," which was formerly used to denote the condition now known as edema (or oedema).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I've broken four or five plates since I started work. I guess I've got a bad case of the dropsy today.
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01 April 2024 19:01
📔 crushing blow
📋Meaning
A major defeat or setback that is devastating to the goals of a person, group, or organization.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The team's loss last Sunday was a crushing blow to their chances for a championship.
🗣Failing that test was a crushing blow to my hopes for an honors degree.
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