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📔 put (one's) back up



📋Meaning
To be or become angry, hostile, defensive, defiant, or irritable, or to instill such a feeling in someone else.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣John put his back up when his parents brought up the subject of college.

🗣Election season always puts my dad's back up.
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💠 hustle (one's) bustle

✍🏾 To increase one's pace or sense of urgency; to hurry up; to get moving quickly.

We'd better hustle our bustle if we want to get to the movie theater on time!
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📔 in front of (one's) very eyes


📋Meaning
Right in plain sight or while one is watching.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Someone smashed into my parked car in front of my very eyes.Each day, in front of our very eyes, we see signs of poverty and need on our city's streets.
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📔 talk a mile a minute



📋Meaning
To speak in a very quick or hurried manner; to talk very fast.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When the boss gets excited, she starts talking a mile a minute, and I can never follow everything she's trying to say!
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📔 Dig your own grave (idiom)




📋Meaning
doing something that will cause you to have problems in the future.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  I hope you know you're digging you own grave by continuing to smoke a pack of cigarettes every day.

🗣 My son dug his own grave by cheating on his exams. 


🗣 Spending all of your time with your boyfriend rather than studying is digging your own grave.
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📔 a drop in the bucket




📋Meaning
a very small or unimportant amount, especially when compared to something else.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  For years businesses have dumped toxic waste into the ocean thinking it was just a drop in the bucket but that behavior has destroyed many ecosystems.



🗣 I raked leaves all afternoon but I know it's just a drop in the bucket and the lawn will be covered again tomorrow.


🗣 "Two cans of beer at lunch?" "Yes. That's actually just a drop in the bucket of what I usually drink."
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📔 Sleep on it 




📋Meaning
to wait until the next day (in order to think carefully) before making an important decision.

Notes
What's "IT" in the picture above?  "It" is any decision that you have to make.  



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  I received two jobs offers today. I asked them both to let me sleep on it so I can review the offers and decide which is best.

🗣I wanted to sleep on it but my manager said I had to sign the contract by the end of the day.


🗣 I wish I had slept on the purchase because the next day I found a much nicer dress and I can't return the one I bought.
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📔 have / get one's ducks in a row




📋Meaning
get well prepared or organized for something that's going to happen




🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  I wish we could join you but we have to get our ducks in a row before our move this weekend.

🗣Too bad you didn't have your ducks in a row before you quit your job.


🗣Why didn't you have your ducks in a row before your retirement?
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📔 Head in the sand




📋Meaning
to ignore or refuse to think about a problem or something unpleasant.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣   I knew I needed to finish my paper before exams started but I just kept my head in the sand and now I won't have time to finish it before its due.

🗣You've had your head in the sand about this marriage for two years and now I'm too tired to work on it. I want a divorce! 

🗣Here are three overdue bills! I can't believe you're burying your head in the sand again.
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📔 walking on eggshells (eggs)



📋Meaning
to be extremely careful around someone in order not to upset them



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Whenever my mother-in-law visits I'm walking on eggshells in my own home.

🗣We've all been walking on eggshells around my father since he lost his job.

🗣Everyone is walking on eggshells at my firm because the owner is visiting our office this week.
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📔 too (something) by half


📋Meaning
Far too something; more something than is necessary. Used in the form, "too (something) by half." Primarily heard in UK.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Liam is too clever by half, winning every debate he gets into.

🗣That child is too noisy by half!
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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.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The ballet was sublime to watch, truly poetry in motion.
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📔 not get a wink of sleep



📋Meaning
To not get any sleep.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Our newborn son is rather colicky, so my wife and I haven't gotten a wink of sleep the last few nights.
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📔 be tied (up) in knots


📋Meaning
To be confused, anxious, worried, and/or upset (about something).


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I've been tied up in knots trying to come up with a good topic for my term paper, but I just can't think of anything!

🗣James is tied in knots over how to break up with Danielle, but I think he needs to bite the bullet and just do it.
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📔 a man (or woman) of few words



📋Meaning
  
a person who does not talk a lot, only when he or she has something important to say



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My father isn’t shy at all—he’s just a man of few words.

🗣I prefer to be with a man of few words than with someone who enjoys listening to himself talk all day.

🗣My girlfriend is a woman of few words so when she talks, everyone stops and listens.
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📔 ants in your pants




📋Meaning
to be so excited, nervous or anxious about something that it's hard to be still and calm.


🧐Notice
This idiom describes a kind of excitement that can be either positive (excited about something) or more negative (anxious or worried about something).


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My children have ants in their pants because tomorrow is Christmas and they are excited about their presents.

🗣Every time we take our children to church they jump around like they've got ants in their pants and I constantly have to ask them to sit down.  

🗣I've got ants in my pants because I have to give a presentation at work tomorrow.      
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📔 At a snail's pace



📋Meaning
Very slowly.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I'm never coming to this restaurant again. They serve the food at a snail's pace.      

🗣I recommend you bring a book when you go to the post office. It's the holidays and they always work at a snail's pace this time of year.     

🗣  Traffic was moving at a snail's pace so I arrived 45 minutes late for work.
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📔 the ball is in someone’s court



📋Meaning
the moment when someone has the responsibility of taking the next action or making the next decision


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I filled out the application and provided all the information they asked for so now the ball's in their court and all I can do is wait.

🗣 I sent the agreement over for them to sign so the ball is now in their court

🗣 I called the girl I met in a bar last night and left a message. The ball's in her court now.
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📔 tickle (one's) funny bone


📋Meaning
To make one laugh; to be humorous or amusing to one.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣There's this silly statue on campus that never fails to tickle my funny bone when I walk past it.

🗣David has such wit that he can tickle the funny bone of anyone he meets.
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📔 soaked to the bone



📋Meaning
Extremely or completely wet, especially through one's clothing.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I can't believe you pushed me into the pool! Now I have to walk home soaked to the bone!

🗣The kids let themselves get soaked to the bone out in the rain, and now one of them is coming down with a cold!
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📔 be rushed off (one's) feet



📋Meaning
To be exceptionally busy, especially to an exhausting or exasperating degree; to be made to work very hard and very quickly.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣We have three parties of 40 scheduled for the dining room this evening, so all of our servers are going to be rushed off their feet.

🗣With three young kids, it's hard to remember a time when I wasn't rushed off my feet.
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📔 be smashed to smithereens



📋Meaning
To be broken apart or otherwise destroyed into tiny, fragmentary pieces. "Smithereens," first appearing in English in 1829 as "smiddereens," is likely derived from the Irish word "smidirín" or "smidiríní," meaning "fragment."


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I wish I could still go visit our old family home, but it's already been smashed to smithereens by the demolition crew.

🗣The village was smashed to smithereens by the typhoon's gale-force winds.
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📔 be rushed off (one's) feet



📋Meaning
To be exceptionally busy, especially to an exhausting or exasperating degree; to be made to work very hard and very quickly.


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🗣With three young kids, it's hard to remember a time when I wasn't rushed off my feet.
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📔 out of house and home


📋Meaning
Evicted; no longer having a place to live.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣If my wife loses her job like so many of her co-workers, we'll be out of house and home for sure.

🗣Over 50 former tenants, now out of house and home, gathered at city hall to protest the closure of the government-funded accommodation.
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📔 kick to the curb



📋Meaning

to discard, dismiss or reject something or someone (especially in a humiliating manner, as if putting garbage out by the curb)


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 is the raised stone or concrete edge by the side of the road. When you cross the street, you step up onto the curb to get from the road and onto the sidewalk. 

Residents of homes usually bring their trash to the curb in front of their house so that garbage collectors can easily and quickly put the garbage into the truck.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Vote November 3rd to kick Donald Trump to the curb.

🗣Help us with a $20 donation so we can kick cancer to the curb.
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📔 A hard nut to crack




📋Meaning

(1) a problem or situation that's difficult to solve or deal with;

(2) a person who is difficult to understand or know;

(3) a group, place or opportunity that's difficult to join or gain entry.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 This algebra equation sure is a hard nut to crack.

🗣Congratulations on restoring your antique car—I'll bet that was a hard nut to crack
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📔 apple of someone's eye




📋Meaning

someone or something that is very important to someone

someone or something that someone likes very much


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Joan’s husband is the apple of her eye.


🗣My father is an avid gardener and these orchids are the apples of his eye.

🗣I used to be the apple of my teacher's eye until he caught me cheating on a quiz.
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📔 one’s name in lights




📋Meaning
to be famous for one's accomplishments, especially as a performer.




🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  Every actor's dream is to see his or her name in lights on Broadway.

🗣 Let me guess. You're dreaming of seeing your name in lights again.

🗣 I know you don't believe me but you're so talented I know that one day I'm going to see your name in lights.
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