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18 January 2024 07:14
📔 ward off something/someone (ward something/someone off)
📋Meaning
to try to keep something/someone harmful away
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 This ointment is fantastic for warding off mosquitoes.
🗣 We need all of our citizens to wear masks to help us ward off the Coronavirus.
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17 January 2024 08:43
📔 the dead of winter
📋Meaning
during the coldest part of the winter
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I hate waking up in the dark in the dead of winter and having to get out of my warm bed.
🗣 I moved to South Florida because even in the dead of winter it doesn't get cold.
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16 January 2024 07:14
📔 walk someone through something
📋Meaning
to explain how to do something in detail
to guide someone carefully or step-by-step about how to do something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I wish you would've walked Samantha through the budget process. Now we need to go back and fix some of the coding.
🗣 I've walked Karen through QuickBooks at least seven times in the past two weeks and she's not grasping anything.
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15 January 2024 11:07
📔 when pigs fly
📋Meaning
Never
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 We use this phrase to say that something is never going to happen.
🗣 It's sometimes also used to describe things that have a very small chance of happening.
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14 January 2024 09:30
📔 On the ball
📋Meaning
to be alert, focused and able to react to something quickly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My assistant is amazing. He's always on the ball noticing mistakes and offering valuable suggestions.
🗣 Although he doesn't have a medical condition he uses the same prescription medication that people who have ADHD use to stay on the ball during exams.
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13 January 2024 12:22
📔 with you back against the wall
📋Meaning
in a difficult situation without many options
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I wish I could help you, but my back is against the wall because I don’t get paid for two more weeks.
🗣 After failing three quizzes, my son's back is against the wall and he's got to pass all of the rest of them.
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11 January 2024 19:12
📔 Were you born in a tent?
📋Meaning
Have you no basic manners? (Usually said after someone has left open a door to the outside.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Shut the door, it's freezing outside! Were you born in a tent?
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10 January 2024 19:49
📔 (the) man/woman of the hour
📋Meaning
A person currently being celebrated, honored, or admired by others, especially for a recent victory, accomplishment, or other cause for celebration.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Janet was woman of the hour at the office after securing the biggest customer their business had ever had.
🗣 Ruth: "Hey, what's going on here?" Dave: "It's a surprise birthday party for you, Ruth! You're the woman of the hour!"
🗣 After writing that bombshell exposé about corruption in Washington, Jake was the man of the hour.
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10 January 2024 07:05
📔 stir the pot
📋Meaning
To deliberately try to make a situation or people more tense and upset.
To unnecessarily create trouble or drama, often to get a reaction from someone.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My old girlfriend was always trying to stir the pot and I really hated the drama.
🗣 I look fat in these jeans? Wow, you're really trying to stir the pot.
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09 January 2024 10:31
📔 a race against time
📋Meaning
A situation where someone has to finish something quickly, in a short or limited amount of time.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Last night we were racing against time to put the packets together before the conference started today.
🗣 It's a real race against the clock to prevent the spread of the Zika virus.
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08 January 2024 08:11
📔 unsung hero
📋Meaning
Someone who has done something heroic or achieved greatness but has not been recognized or celebrated for the achievement
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Two men were unsung heroes rescuing several puppies from the fire after the police determined it was too dangerous to enter the burning house.
🗣 My colleague was really the unsung hero for the development of our most successful product this year.
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07 January 2024 10:36
📔 Thank your lucky stars
📋Meaning
to be grateful and feel lucky (especially that something bad didn't happen)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 We thanked our lucky stars that the tree that fell on our house did not injure anyone.
🗣 You should thank your lucky stars you didn't get COVID at that crowded party.
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06 January 2024 09:13
📔 The lion's share
📋Meaning
The largest part (or share) of something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My son is upset that his brother got the lion's share of the cake but I explained this was fair because it was his birthday.
🗣My husband does help out at home with some cleaning and cooking, but like most women, I do the lion's share of the housework.
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04 January 2024 20:38
📔 in the middle of nowhere
📋Meaning
In a very distant, remote, and isolated location.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'll never understand why they built this campus out here in the middle of nowhere.
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18 January 2024 20:17
📔 in the middle of nowhere
📋Meaning
In a very distant, remote, and isolated location.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'll never understand why they built this campus out here in the middle of nowhere.
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17 January 2024 20:46
📔 Peter Pan syndrome
📋Meaning
A psychological state or condition in which a grown person cannot or refuses to act like an adult; a stubborn and persistent immaturity found in an adult person.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I seem cursed to only find men who have some damned Peter Pan syndrome. I'm tired of going out with guys who act like children!
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16 January 2024 19:31
📔an/the olive branch
📋Meaning
A symbol, expression, or gesture of peace, reconciliation, truce, etc. Used most commonly in the phrase "hold out/offer (someone) an/the olive branch."
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The conservatives in Congress seem to be offering the olive branch to Democrats on the issue of raising the debt ceiling.
🗣If you find yourself in a spat with a friend, try to be the bigger person and be the one to hold out the olive branch.
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15 January 2024 19:44
📔be cleaned out
📋To be emptied or devoid of money, food, resources, etc.
🗣I'd like to play another round of poker, but I'm totally cleaned out!
🗣I wish I could offer you some food to go with your tea, but I'm afraid we're cleaned out.
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14 January 2024 17:02
📔 quake like a leaf
📋Meaning
To tremble violently with fear or nervousness.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My brother is so strong and scary-looking that he leaves people quaking like a leaf when he threatens them.
🗣I was quaking like a leaf when I went up to deliver my speech.
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13 January 2024 18:38
📔 in the thick of things
📋Meaning
Very busy; in the middle of or preoccupied with something or several things.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Sorry I couldn't make it to your birthday lunch on Wednesday—I'm afraid I'm really in the thick of things at the moment.
🗣Even when you find yourself in the thick of things, try to take a moment each day and take a deep, calming breath.
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11 January 2024 08:18
📔 crack someone up
📋Meaning
make someone suddenly laugh a lot / to suddenly laugh a lot
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My two year old cracks us up because he's so naughty and we try desperately not to laugh.
🗣 Your dad's dancing really cracks me up. He's a big hip-hop fan I guess?
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10 January 2024 19:47
IELTS Writing evaluate your essay #2
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09 January 2024 19:06
📔 romp home
📋Meaning
To deftly or easily win a race, contest, or competition. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣With her arch-rival out of commission with a pulled hamstring, the defending champion romped home at the Olympics once again.
🗣Showing their utter superiority on the pitch, the boys in blue look set to romp home to a 6–2 victory.
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08 January 2024 19:46
📔 brazen it out
📋Meaning
To face a difficult, uncertain, or intimidating situation with brave or impudent self-confidence.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'm terrified to give this presentation, but I just have to brazen it out and hope for the best.
🗣Timmy brazened it out when his teacher scolded him for misbehaving.
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07 January 2024 19:13
📔 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.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣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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06 January 2024 19:43
💠 hair-splittingly
✍🏾 With extremely minute, unimportant, or imperceptible differences or details. (Used before an adjective.)
I think it's clear to see that the defendant's work is only hair-splittingly distinct from that of my client.
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04 January 2024 07:18
📔 safe and sound
📋Meaning
not hurt or injured
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My dog disappeared for two days and I was so worried but today she showed up safe and sound.
🗣 Drive safely, and when you get home don’t forget to call us to let us know you’ve arrived safe and sound.
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