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12 July 2023 17:48

📔 peg it


📋Meaning
To leave or depart very quickly or suddenly.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣You'd better peg it, or you're going to be late for school!

🗣After a really long day at the office, I pegged it out of there as soon as the clock struck 5!
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11 July 2023 17:41

📔 with (one's) head held high


📋Meaning
Displaying pride and confidence, often (but not always) after something has gone wrong.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Even though I knew I blew the presentation, I walked out of the conference room with my head held high… and then cried in my car.

🗣After hearing that he had been named to the all-star team, Paul walked through the halls with his head held high.
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10 July 2023 18:27

📔 bone-idle


📋Meaning
Extremely lazy.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Can you please get Billy to go to the playground or something? He's just laying around all day, being bone-idle.
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09 July 2023 07:28

📔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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08 July 2023 09:07

📔 catnap/take a catnap



📋Meaning
A very brief but restful period of sleep./To sleep for a very brief but restful period of time.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'm going to try to squeeze in a catnap before my next shift starts, or else I'll be feeling sluggish for the entire evening.

🗣Julie gets up really early to do her writing before the kids wake up, then takes little catnaps throughout the day.
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06 July 2023 20:33

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05 July 2023 17:30

📔 Beside yourself with joy


📋Meaning
To be extremely happy.

🤔For example ⬇️

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04 July 2023 17:48

📔 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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03 July 2023 19:25

📔 Sail close to the wind




📋Meaning
  To act just within the limits of what’s legal or socially acceptable, to push boundaries.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “They fired their accountant because he sailed too close to the wind.”
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02 July 2023 21:47

📔 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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01 July 2023 17:30

📔 catnap/take a catnap



📋Meaning
A very brief but restful period of sleep./To sleep for a very brief but restful period of time.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'm going to try to squeeze in a catnap before my next shift starts, or else I'll be feeling sluggish for the entire evening.

🗣Julie gets up really early to do her writing before the kids wake up, then takes little catnaps throughout the day.
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30 June 2023 21:18

📔 alarm bell


📋Meaning
A sudden warning or intimation of danger, risk, or ill fortune. (Often pluralized.)

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Alarm bells were going off in my head when I saw the panicked expression on her face.

🗣The new report set alarm bells ringing among the board members because it forecasts a large decrease in enrollment.

🗣A: "Her new boyfriend's anger management issues don't seem to be setting off an alarm bell for her." B: "Yikes, the situation is worse than I thought."
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29 June 2023 19:13

📔 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.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣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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29 June 2023 11:12

📔 Burn Your Bridges


📋Meaning
to do something that makes it impossible for you to return to the situation you were in before. 

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I knew I’ll be burning the bridges when I dropped out of school to pursue my modelling career. 
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28 June 2023 09:28

📔 scrapes the barrel


📋Meaning
When a person scrapes the barrel, he is more likely in a dire situation. He is willing to do anything possible to turn his adversity into an opportunity.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The restaurant was so busy that they had to scrape the barrel to find enough ingredients to make all the dishes.
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12 July 2023 07:36

📔 better late than never


📋Meaning
doing something late is better than not doing it at all. 


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Sorry I was late for the meeting today; I got stuck in traffic.”
Answer: “That's okay; better late than never.”
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11 July 2023 12:23

📔 a ballpark figure | a ballpark estimate


📋Meaning
If you give a ballpark figure or a ballpark estimate, you give a number which you think is fairly close to the actual one.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣We don't know the exact cost, but a ballpark figure would be around six million dollars.
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10 July 2023 06:42

📔 Twist someone’s arm



📋Meaning
   If your arm has been twisted it means that someone has done a great job of convincing you to do something you might not have wanted to to do.



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“Pretty girls? Oh all right, you’ve twisted my arm, I’ll come!”
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08 July 2023 20:41

📔 To be in the doldrums


📋Meaning
To be in a low spirit

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When I got to know about the increasing cases of COVID 19 in my area, I was in the doldrums.
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07 July 2023 17:30

📔 Fair and square


📋Meaning
Being direct or fair.

🤔For example ⬇️

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06 July 2023 12:38

📔 take ill



📋Meaning
To be or become sick or unwell.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I heard your sister has taken ill recently. I hope that it isn't anything too serious?
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05 July 2023 05:30

📔 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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04 July 2023 05:30

📔 go halfsies



📋Meaning
slang To share something, especially the cost of something, in equal proportion between two people.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣You wanna go halfsies on the bill?

🗣I don't feel like cooking tonight, let's go halfsies on a pizza instead.
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03 July 2023 08:59

📚learn the ropes


✍🏾Meaning
If you learn the ropes, you learn how to do a job properly, or how things work and how to get things done.


❗️For example

🔸Ruth will teach you what to do, and it shouldn't take you too long to learn the ropes.

🔸It can take quite a while for a new lawyer to learn the ropes in a big legal firm.
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02 July 2023 07:21

📔 Blow Hot and Cold


📋Meaning
“blow hot and cold” is used to describe someone who constantly changes their opinion, attitude, or behaviour towards a particular thing or person. 

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The changes benefit “Tom has been blowing hot and cold in his relationship with Lisa. Sometimes he showers her with affection and attention, and other times he acts distant and uninterested.” 
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01 July 2023 05:30

📔 Left out in the cold


📋Meaning
Being ignored

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The changes benefit management but leave the workers out in the cold. 
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30 June 2023 11:56

📔 In for a penny, in for a pound


📋Meaning
That someone is intentionally investing his time or money for a particular project or task.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When Athlead was booming, Jim was in for penny in for pounds, that’s how much dedicated he was. 
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29 June 2023 11:28

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28 June 2023 18:52

📔 harrowing experience


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27 June 2023 17:30

📔 cross (one's) bows


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