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💠 house cooling party

✍🏾 A party thrown to commemorate when someone leaves an apartment, flat, or house.

We've loved living in this place, so we've decided to throw a house cooling party for all our friends to celebrate all the good times we've had here.
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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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📔 one-up (someone)

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

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🗣I hate telling stories around Jack because he always tries to one-up you with some fabulous anecdote of his own.
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📔 bear fruit




📋Meaning
to yield a positive result
to produce a desired result



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🗣 You've been going to the library everyday for the past two months so I really hope your studying bears fruit this semester.

🗣  We were pleased to see that our management training program bore fruit when staff retention and productivity both increased by more than 50% over the past year.
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📔 Beat the pants off




📋Meaning
 to easily win against someone by a large margin or score; to surpass or be more successful than another.



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🗣 My son was so embarrassed when his younger sister beat the pants off him in chess.

🗣When it comes to ticket sales the Harry Potter movies beat the pants off the Twilight series. 
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📔 bore the pants off




📋Meaning
  to be extremely boring or uninteresting to someone else.




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🗣 Spending the weekend with my in-laws really bored the pants off me.

🗣 Not only do my grandfather's good-old-days stories bore the pants off me but he also tells the same stories over and over again.
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📔 Up to one's eyeballs




📋Meaning
  to have a very large amount of something to do or be very busy with something

to emphasize the extreme degree of some undesirable or unwanted thing



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 We've been using our credit cards so much we're now up to our eyes in debt.

🗣 If you don't wash your clothes again this weekend you'll be up to your eyeballs in laundry.
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📔 tickle the ivories / ivory




📋Meaning
  play the piano



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I learned to tickle the ivories from a very young age so I've been dreaming of getting a grand piano for most of my life.

🗣 My grandfather used to tickle the ivories for a living.
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📔 with reckless abandon



📋Meaning
With rash, unrestrained impulsiveness, enthusiasm, or zeal.


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🗣Ever since my brother got that car for his birthday, he's been motoring around at night with reckless abandon.

🗣The insurgents set upon the town and began firing their weapons with reckless abandon.
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📔 help (someone) out of a fix


📋Meaning
To help someone avoid or escape from some troublesome, difficult, or dangerous position or situation.

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🗣My father's always having to go down to the courthouse to help my knuckle-headed brother out of some fix or another.

🗣Thanks so much for staying late with me to finish that report the other day—you really helped me out of a fix!
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💠 honest to pete

✍🏾 Honestly; truly; genuinely. An expression used to emphasize the veracity of one's statement, "Pete" here is a substitution of the word "God," so as to avoid potential blasphemy.

I swear it wasn't me who broke the lamp, honest to Pete!
Honest to Pete, how are we supposed to finish this project on time with half of our staff laid off?
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📔 the outside world



📋Meaning
The people, culture, ideas, or experiences beyond an enclosed, sheltered, or remote place, situation or environment.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Being raised out on the farm meant Jacob had little knowledge of the outside world.

🗣Anthropologists came upon an indigenous society that had had no previous contact with the outside world.
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📔a night out

📋Meaning

An evening spent having an enjoyable time away from home, as in a restaurant, theater, bar, or other such locations.

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🗣Hey John, some people in the office are planning a night out this Friday. Would you like to join us?
🗣I never knew how much I would miss being able to have a night out once we had kids
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📔 make off with something




📋Meaning
  to steal something



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Unbelievable. Someone made off with the new bottle of hand lotion I put on my desk.

🗣 I had a party Friday night and one of the guests made off with several of my bracelets.
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📔 the world is your oyster





📋Meaning
  used to say that you can do anything or go anywhere you want in life.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 That's awesome you're learning English. With English, the world is your oyster!

🗣 You're young and beautiful. Don't be sad, the world is your oyster.
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📔 warm up to (someone/something)




📋Meaning
  to begin to like someone/something




🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My mother is so afraid of everything she’s just beginning to warm up to using the microwave.

🗣 Since our baby was born, my father is finally starting to warm up to my husband.
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📔on the down low


📋Meaning 1
In a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge; being known only by a select few people.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Keep this on the down low, but Janet is planning to break up with Kevin next week.

🗣My parents know about the pregnancy, but I'd like it to stay on the down low otherwise.

📋Meaning 2
In a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge pertaining to the activities of a man who has sex with other men but considers himself to be heterosexual.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I never thought he was gay, but then I started to hear rumors that he's on the down low.
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📔 be put out of business



📋Meaning
To be caused or forced to cease carrying on commercial trading or transactions.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Our bookstore has been a part of the neighborhood for nearly 50 years, but we're being put out of business by these new electronic books that you can download.

🗣I hear that Mike's company has been put out of business due to allegations of insider trading.
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📔(the) next thing (one) knows

📋Meaning

All of a sudden; out of nowhere; without warning.

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🗣I was standing in line, minding my own business, when the next thing I know, a gunman runs into the bank and starts screaming at us to get on the ground!
🗣Tammy had only been on a few dates with Mark, but this one had been going smoothly. Next thing she knew, he got on one knee and proposed to her
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📔like cheese at four pence

📋In an idle, awkward, and/or out-of-place state; being ignored, abandoned, or left to wait awkwardly. Primarily heard in UK.


🗣The receptionist was called away before I was done telling her what I needed, leaving me standing there like cheese at four pence.
🗣Well, don't just sit there like cheese at four pence—speak up and say what's on your mind!

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📔 seep away


📋Meaning
Literally, of a gas or liquid, to flow out and escape from (something) gradually but steadily, as through a leak, crack, puncture, etc.


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🗣Make sure you close the valve tight on that jar—we don't want any of the gas to seep away.
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💠he-man

✍🏾A particularly strong, tough, and/or virile male, especially one who likes to flaunt his strength.

Janet's always dated these bulked up he-men, so there's no way she'd be interested in a scrawny guy like me.
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📔 In a nutshell




📋Meaning
  a brief / short summary of something.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 In a nutshell, my parents grounded me for five weeks after they caught me smoking behind the house.

🗣 I'm sorry to interrupt you but could you please give us your point in a nutshell?
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📔 third time lucky / third time's the charm



📋Meaning
  the third time you try to do something you succeed



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🗣  I applied for a job with the United Nations three years in a row and finally got offered a job. As they say third time lucky!

🗣Most people give up the first time they fail. Too bad they forget that third time's the charm.
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📔 Kick in




📋Meaning  
1) to start to operate or become effective;
2) to contribute something (especially money).



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Doctor, please do something! The pain killer still hasn't begun to kick in yet.

🗣 The excitement still hasn't kicked in that I got into Stanford University—I'm still in shock.
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📔 Dog Eat Dog



📋Meaning
  ruthless competition where people will do anything (even harm other people) to succeed at doing something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  I hated living in New York City because even riding the subway to work in the morning was dog eat dog to get a seat.

🗣 Politics is a dog eat dog world.
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📔 under scrutiny




📋Meaning
  being closely watched, examined or investigated


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 The police had three people under close scrutiny for the theft of the art gallery’s paintings.

🗣 My children have been under a lot of scrutiny since I ran for public office.
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📔 a fly on the wall



📋Meaning
  to be able to secretly hear and observe something


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My manager just got called into the director’s office.  Oh, how I’d love to be a fly on the wall!

🗣  Our teacher just got called into the principal's office and I wish I could be a fly on the wall!
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