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📔 Make a mountain out of a molehill



📋Meaning
  To exaggerate the severity of a situation.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “She shouted at him angrily for being five minutes late, but it really didn’t matter that much. She really made a mountain out of a molehill.”
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📔 Gain ground



📋Meaning
  To become popular, to make progress, to advance.



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🗣 “As Airbnb gains ground in many cities all over the world, many locals complain that they can no longer find a place to live. Landlords would rather rent their places out to tourists and earn more money.”
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💠a bridge too far

✍🏾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.
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.
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📔 poetry in motion


📋Meaning
Something that is very elegant, graceful, and/or beautiful to observe, especially dance or the performing arts.

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🗣The ballet was sublime to watch, truly poetry in motion.
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📔 Down to earth



📋Meaning
  To be practical and sensible.


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🗣 “It’s a stereotype, but Dutch people are known for being down to earth.”
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📔 Salt of the earth



📋Meaning
  Being honest and good.


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🗣 “My father is the salt of the earth. He works hard and always helps people who are in need.”
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📔 Break the ice



📋Meaning
  To attempt to become friends with someone.



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🗣 “He made a weather joke to break the ice.”
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📔 Sell ice to Eskimos



📋Meaning
  To be able to sell anything to anyone; to persuade people to go against their best interests or to accept something unnecessary or preposterous.



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🗣 “He’s a gifted salesman, he could sell ice to Eskimos."
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📔 Let the dust settle



📋Meaning
  To allow a situation to become calm or normal again after something exciting or unusual has happened.


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🗣 “You just had big news yesterday, let the dust settle and don’t make any decisions yet.”
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📔 Clear as mud



📋Meaning
  Not clear at all, not easy to understand.



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🗣 “He’s a great scientist, but I find his explanation of bacteria and microbes as clear as mud.”
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📔 have known better days


📋Meaning
To be or look particularly shabby, ill-kept, or in poor condition.


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🗣Well, this car has known better days, but it's been reliable for me since the day I bought it 20 years ago.

🗣The poor guy who runs the building is a sweet fellow, but he has certainly known better days by the looks of him.
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📔receive (one's) just deserts

📋To receive that which one deserves, especially a punishment or unfavorable outcome. (Note: The phrase is often misspelled as "just desserts," due to the pronunciation of "deserts" and "desserts" being the same in this context.)

🗣The CEO cheated his clients out of nearly $4 million, but he received his just deserts when he was stripped of everything he owned and sent to prison.
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📔 Potemkin village



📋Meaning
Something that is made to seem very grand, elaborate, or prosperous for the purposes of impressing others, but which in reality has no real worth or substance. Taken from a story about Russian minister Grigory Potemkin (1739–1791), who allegedly erected false, painted façades to mimic a thriving, successful village along the Dnieper River in Crimea to impress the visiting Empress Catherine II.


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🗣The tightly controlled totalitarian country is often accused of creating a Potemkin village each time it televises some event, a meager attempt to convince the outside world that its people are happy under the thumb of the dictatorship.
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📔 out of humour


📋Meaning
In an irritable, grouchy, or unhappy mood; not feeling well or in good spirits. Primarily heard in UK.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I think something is bugging John because he's been rather out of humour lately.

🗣After living in Gibraltar for so long, these awful London winters leave me feeling me out of humour.
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📔 Walking on air



📋Meaning
  Very excited or happy. “Over the moon,” “on cloud nine,” “in seventh heaven” and “in good spirits” 


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🗣 “She’s been walking on air since she found out that she’s pregnant.”
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📔 Many moons ago



📋Meaning
  This is one of those English expressions that’s a little bit formal or dated. You’ll most likely hear it in stories, or when someone is trying to create a dramatic effect.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Many moons ago, we used to be two very close friends. Now we’ve gone separate ways and lost contact.”
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📔 Castle in the sky



📋Meaning
  A daydream, a hope, especially for one’s life, that’s unlikely to come true.



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🗣 “World traveling used to be a castle in the sky for most people a few decades ago, but with cheap flight tickets and the global use of English, many youngsters are living that dream.”
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💠 hot tip

✍🏾 A piece of advice or information that is timely and helpful, especially if acted upon quickly.

We received a hot tip that the suspect is on his way to the border.
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📔 one-up (someone)

📋Meaning
To make a point of outdoing, outperforming, outclassing, etc., someone.

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📔 tear a strip off (someone)



📋Meaning
To scold, upbraid, or rebuke someone very severely, as for an error or wrongdoing.


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🗣The teacher really tore a strip off me for causing a disruption in class again.
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📔lap of the gods

📋A state beyond possible human control, intervention, or responsibility; a state or condition that is or will be decided by nature or fate. Usually used in the phrase "in the lap of the gods."


🗣I'm afraid we've done all we can to treat your father's heart attack. His recovery is in the lap of the gods, now.
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💠collect dust

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To be in a state of disuse for a prolonged period of time.
Why do you want another video game console? You already have three collecting dust under the television!
My father has lots of old trinkets and memorabilia collecting dust in the attic.
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📔live and kicking

📋Alive, healthy, and alert. (A truncated version of "alive and kicking.")


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📔 pester (someone) for (something)


📋Meaning
To continually annoy someone with requests for something.


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🗣I wish you would stop pestering me for a new bicycle; your birthday will be here soon enough!
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📔 As cold as stone



📋Meaning
  Being very cold and unemotional.



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🗣 “In the Victorian times, many women were told to suppress their feelings and, thus, appeared as cold as stone.”
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📔 Between a rock and a hard place



📋Meaning
  In difficulty, faced with a choice between two unsatisfactory options.


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🗣 “I can understand why she couldn’t make up her mind about what to do. She’s really between a rock and a hard place.”
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📔 Nip something in the bud



📋Meaning
  To stop a bad situation from becoming worse by taking action at an early stage of its development.


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🗣 “When the kid shows the first signs of misbehaving, you should nip that bad behavior in the bud.”
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📔 Barking up the wrong tree



📋Meaning
  Doing something that won’t give you the results you want.



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🗣 “If you think she’s going to lend you money, you’re barking up the wrong tree. She never lends anyone anything.”
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