📔 get taken to task (by someone)
📋Meaning
To be scolded, rebuked, reprimanded, or criticized (by someone).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I got taken to task by the headmaster for disrupting class again
🗣It's not entirely fair that the bankers are the only ones getting taken to task for the economic collapse, when a great many politicians are to blame as well.
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📔a woman of her word
📋A woman who can be expected to keep or follow through with her promises or intentions; a truthful, trustworthy, or reliable person. (Masculine: "man of his word.")
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📔caught on the hop
📋To encounter or try to communicate or work with someone at an inopportune time, such as when they are busy or preoccupied; to catch one off guard.
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📔 living on the edge
📋Meaning
To have an adventurous or perilous lifestyle; to behave in a manner which creates risks for oneself.
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📔 Fair and square
📋Meaning
Being direct or fair.
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📔 To be in the doldrums
📋Meaning
To be in a low spirit
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📔 the elephant in the room
📋Meaning
a major problem or controversial issue which is obviously present but is avoided as a subject for discussion.
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🗣 "they've steadfastly ignored the elephant in the room: the ever-growing debt burden on graduates"
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📔 all sharped up
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Very nicely dressed.
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📔 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
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📔 scare (one) silly
📋Meaning
To shock or frighten one very suddenly or severely. Hyperbolically alludes to frightening one so severely as to cause them to lose their mind.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Don't sneak up on me like that, you scared me silly!
🗣That car accident seems to have scared Janet silly. She's still shaken by it.
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📔one after another
📋Meaning
Consecutively and in quick succession, with one person or thing rapidly following another in order (and usually indicating a large amount altogether). (Often formulated as "one (noun) after another.")
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The children walked silently, one after another, into the schoolhouse to begin their lesson.
🗣When I was cooped up in the house after my surgery, I started reading one book after another.
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📔 a lot on (one's) plate
📋Meaning
A lot to do.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I just have a lot on my plate right now while I'm finishing up my degree and doing this huge project for work.
🗣Please, I have three small children, and I work full-time—there's always a lot on my plate!
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📔 beauty queen
📋Meaning
A woman who has won, or looks as if she could win, a beauty pageant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣When that beauty queen walked in, everyone's heads turned.
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📔 Storm in a teacup (UK idiom)
📋Meaning
A small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.
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🗣 The whole controversy turned out to be a storm in a teacup.
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📔 Sitting on the fence
📋Meaning
a person's lack of decisiveness, neutrality or hesitance to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition, or inability to decide due to lack of courage.
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🗣 “The councilman is afraid he'll lose votes if he takes sides on the zoning issue, but he can't sit on the fence forever.”
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📔 raise the roof
📋Meaning
make or cause someone else to make a great deal of noise, especially through cheering.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "when I finally scored the fans raised the roof"
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📔 the big picture
📋Meaning
the situation as a whole.
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🗣 "he's so involved in the minutiae that he often overlooks the big picture"
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📔 roll (one's) eyes
📋Meaning
To turn one's eyes upward or around in a circle, usually as an expression of exasperation, annoyance, impatience, or disdain.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Don't you roll your eyes at me, young lady! You will finish your homework this instant, or you can kiss your weekend goodbye!
🗣I just rolled my eyes as my dad told another one of his corny jokes.
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📔 blow (one's) stack
📋Meaning
To become very angry, often quickly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Oh man, Dad is going to blow his stack when he sees that I wrecked his car!
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📔 shotgun house
📋Meaning
slang A one-story house in which each room is in a straight alignment with the others, connected by a continuous hallway running from the front to the back of the residence. Chiefly used in the Southern United States.
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🗣When our whole family goes to stay in my grandmother's shotgun house in New Orleans, it always feels like we're all right on top of one another.
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📔 seep out (of something)
📋Meaning
Of a liquid, gel, paste, etc., to leak or flow out of some crack, breach, or flaw in something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I realized there was a fire downstairs when I noticed smoke seeping into our bedroom.
🗣I made sure to make the container airtight so no moisture seeps in.
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📔 The sky is the limit
📋Meaning
If you say the sky is the limit, you mean that there is nothing to prevent someone or something from being very successful.
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🗣 They have found that, in terms of both salary and career success, the sky is the limit.
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📔 work the room
📋Meaning
To interact with many people at an event or function. Often, but not always, applied to business situations.
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🗣At networking events, Ben totally works the room, with the goal of meeting as many people as he possibly can.
🗣At parties, my dad always works the room and chats with everyone, but I'm too shy for that.
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📔 Mad as a hatter (UK idiom)
📋Meaning
Completely mad.
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🗣 I'll be mad as a hatter if I have to deal with these screaming toddlers for much longer.
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📔 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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📔 as high as a kite
📋Meaning
intoxicated with drugs or alcohol.
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🗣 I tried to talk to her after the party, but she was as high as a kite.
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📔 picturesque
📋Meaning
visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty style.
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🗣 the picturesque narrow street s of the old city.
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📔 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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