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14 April 2017 12:24

📚a done deal

🇺🇸American English INFORMAL

☑️Meaning: A done deal is an agreement or a decision that is final.

🔰For example:

🔸It's a done deal so we can go ahead and start planning the details.

🔸No-one knew about it, but the contract has been a done deal since the senator spoke to the minister last month.

🔴Variety: This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

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❇️A NEST EGG

☑️Meaning:
Savings set aside for future use.

〽️Example:
Roger worked hard when he was young so that he could re­tire with a sub­stan­tial nest egg in his fifties.

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This id­iom de­rived from a method of en­cour­ag­ing a hen to lay eggs by putting eggs in her nest.

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19 March 2017 13:23

📚07 Handy Colour Idioms.

Life is colourful and in English, we have idioms related to colours that will improve your English fluency and make your speak English confidently.They are fun to learn and easy to use.

1⃣) Born with a silver spoon
✅ Someone who is born into a rich family. Has all the wealth and privilege.
Example 🔹 John can afford to go to the medical college, he was born with a silver spoon.

2⃣) To catch someone red handed
✅To catch someone doing something wrong or illegal or private.
Example 🔹I boyfriend is cheating on, so she is planning to follow him and catch him red handed.

3⃣) White lie
✅ Innocent lie to protect another person’s feelings.
Example 🔹 We told Sharon that her chicken pie was delicious, which was actually a white lie.

4⃣) Tickled pink
✅ To be very pleased or delighted by someone or something.
Example 🔹 I was tickled pink to receive flowers from my husband.

5⃣) Yellow-bellied
✅Someone who is extremely timid or coward
Example🔹Ron is yellow bellied and is never willing to fight for what is right.

6⃣) Talk a blue streak
✅ To talk too much and rapidly
Example🔹 She talked a blue streak all night long.

7⃣) Black sheep of a family
✅ A person who is a disgrace to a family or a group.
Example 🔹Sam is a black sheep of the family. He’s always in trouble with the cops.

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15 March 2017 18:31

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✳️in a nutshell
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☑️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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10 March 2017 04:09

💥To sit down with.
☑️This means to spend time with someone in order to discuss something.

💥I'm screwed.
☑️This means that one is doomed, is in big trouble, or has made a huge mistake.

💥I'll bet.
☑️This is a hyperbolic or sarcastic way of saying "certainly" or "of course".

💥Who knows.
☑️This is a hyperbolic or sarcastic way of saying "I don't have any idea or clue".

💥This is a piece of cake!
☑️This means a task will be easy.

💥Put your eye on it.
☑️This means to watch or monitor something or a person/persons closely and carefully.

💥Wear your heart on your sleeve, To air your dirty laundry.
☑️This means to be open, maybe too open, about your feelings in the public, or to talk to other people about personal things that you should keep private.

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07 March 2017 12:11

⭕️Top 10 Most Common Idiomatic Expressions with ‘Like’

💥Sleep like a log
✅Sleep very deeply, sleep very well

💥Sell like hotcakes
✅Sell very well, very quickly

💥Like a fish out of water
✅Completely out of place, not belonging at all

💥Feel like a million
✅Feel very happy

💥Like a bump on a log
✅Do not react in a useful of helpful way to the activities around them

💥Read someone like a book
✅Know exactly someone’s thinking or feelings without having to ask

💥Watch someone like a Hawk
✅Watch someone very carefully, especially because you expect them to do something wrong

💥Fit like a glove
✅It fits exactly

💥Eat like a bird
✅Eat only small amount of food

💥Know someone or something like the back of one’s hand
✅Know very well, in every detail

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✅IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH


💥bitch up
☑️: to ruin or spoil; to frustrate.

broad-speaking
☑️: plain-speaking, outspoken.

💥get burned up
☑️: to become exhausted through physical exertion.

💥butter-for-fat
☑️: like for like; similar to tit-for tat.

💥That's chalk
☑️: that's inevitable; a foregone conclusion; slang for that's great.

💥cheek somebody up
☑️: to be impertinent to somebody.

💥clap somebody up
☑️: to applaud somebody; similar to applaud to the echo.

💥cold in the arm, leg
☑️: an inflammation of the arm or leg.

💥curry-favor someone
☑️: give somebody an unfair advantage because of personal connections; curry somebody's favor.

💥cut-up with someone
☑️: to flirt.

💥cut your grass
☑️: to usurp someone else's prerogative or exclusive right or privilege.

💥decide your mind
☑️: to make a decision.

💥what the diggins
☑️: an exclamation of surprise.

💥dive up
☑️: to dive into the water and bring something up.

💥doggy after someone
☑️: to follow someone about constantly.

💥don 't-care-'f-I
☑️: not caring, especially about social norms.

💥draw hand
☑️: to make a leading or beckoning gesture.

💥eat off someone
☑️: to eat at someone else's expense.

💥fowled of doing something
☑️: engaged in doing something.

💥pick up gap seed
☑️: to gather information for gossip.

💥grind somebody up in your heart
☑️: to bear a grudge against somebody.

💥in quest
☑️: to admit defeat in playing cards or marbles.

💥keep somebody hot
☑️: to be at a person's heels, getting in his/her way.

💥land somebody off
☑️." to drop someone off from a car or boat.

💥lay on your chest/stomach
☑️: to cause indigestion or nightmares (of food eaten late at night).

💥make him know
☑️: to scold or punish.

💥make your break
☑️: to seize an opportunity to do what one has been wanting to do.

💥mix fool with sense
☑️: to attempt to deceive someone by interspersing lies with the truth.

💥one mind tell me
☑️: To have a vague contradictory feeling (that something would happen, etc.).

💥own something to somebody
☑️: to confess something to somebody.

💥pick somebody's mouth
☑️: to get information by engaging in seemingly casual conversation.

💥pick up for somebody
☑️: to take somebody's side of the argument.

💥pitch a stink
☑️: to object vehemently, cause a commotion.

💥poke death with a stick
☑️: to court danger, to tempt fate.

💥rap someone up
☑️: to applaud someone, especially for a generous donation to a church.

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02 April 2017 18:55

❇️A NEE­DLE IN A HAYSTACK

💢Meaning:
Something or someone that is difficult and nearly impossible to find.

🔰Example:
♦️Try­ing to find a lost child dur­ing the IT fair would be like search­ing for a nee­dle in a haystack!

Did you know❓
This phrase orig­i­nated even be­fore Shake­speare’s time. Ini­tially, it was called “a nee­dle in a bot­tle of hay”, “bot­tle” be­ing an early ex­pres­sion for “bun­dle”. It has pro­lif­er­ated through­out cen­turies as it paints a near per­fect pic­ture of a near-im­pos­si­ble task.

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✳️not have a hope in hell (of doing something)

✅To not have any chance at all of doing or achieving something.

🔹With that giant supermarket opening up across the street, our little grocery store won't have a hope in hell of staying open.
🔹You think you can beat me? Ha! You don't have a hope in hell.

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07 March 2017 05:51

✳️'The Bee's Knees'

☑️When you refer to something as 'the bee's knees', it means that it is of excellent or very high quality.

📝The origin of this expression is largely unknown, although there are a number of theories. Some people believe that it is a reference to the fact that bees carry pollen in sacks on their knees, and that the expression therefore alludes to this concentrated goodness. Others maintain that the saying is just a corruption of the word 'business'.

✔️Another suggestion is that the 'bee' in question was actually Bee Jackson, a world champion Charleston dancer who was very popular in New York in the 1920's!

🔹"Try this chocolate. It's the bee's knees, it really is."

🔹 "Do you like my new shoes? I think they are the bee's knees."

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