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04 April 2024 08:50
📔 banker's hours
📋Meaning
A limited work schedule (as banks were once known for having short work days and being closed on holidays and weekends).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣You won't be able to reach her on a Saturday—she keeps banker's hours.
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02 April 2024 22:55
📔 case of the dropsy
📋Meaning
A fictitious "condition" characterized by continually dropping things from one's hands. It is a play on the term "dropsy," which was formerly used to denote the condition now known as edema (or oedema).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I've broken four or five plates since I started work. I guess I've got a bad case of the dropsy today.
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01 April 2024 19:01
📔 crushing blow
📋Meaning
A major defeat or setback that is devastating to the goals of a person, group, or organization.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The team's loss last Sunday was a crushing blow to their chances for a championship.
🗣Failing that test was a crushing blow to my hopes for an honors degree.
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31 March 2024 07:03
📔 cushy job
📋Meaning
A job that is easy, stress-free, and/or very well paid.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Since I got this cushy job managing a toy store, I've gotten to sit around playing with toys all day.
🗣Since Sarah got that cushy job with the bank, she has been driving a sports car and is buying a second home!
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29 March 2024 19:56
📔 Rain or shine
📋Meaning
Used to indicate that something will happen no matter what. This is one of the rare idioms that’s also often used literally, for outdoor events that’ll take place whether it rains or not.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “I’ll see you at the airport, rain or shine.”
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28 March 2024 22:30
📔 Under the sun
📋Meaning
Refers to everything on Earth, usually used as part of a superlative.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Gili Trawangan must be one of the most beautiful islands under the sun.”
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27 March 2024 21:35
📔 Once in a blue moon
📋Meaning
Very rarely.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “He used to call his grandma once in a blue moon. Now that she has passed away, he regrets not making more of an effort to keep in touch.”
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26 March 2024 20:49
📔 Every cloud has a silver lining
📋Meaning
There’s a good aspect to every bad situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Don’t worry about losing your job. It’ll be okay. Every cloud has a silver lining!“
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25 March 2024 21:41
📔 A rising tide lifts all boats
📋Meaning
When an economy is performing well, all of the people involved will benefit from it.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “When the economy showed the first signs of recovering, everyone started investing and spending more. A rising tide lifts all boats.“
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24 March 2024 17:45
📔bluff (one's) way
📋Meaning
To achieve or accomplish something through deceit or by making a false display. (Usually followed by "into," "out of," or "through.")
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣We tried to bluff our way into the party, but we were immediately recognized as freshmen and told to leave.
🗣My brother is a good liar, but even he couldn't bluff his way out of that speeding ticket.
🗣I managed to bluff my way through the presentation with a lot of vague ideas and corporate buzz words.
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23 March 2024 09:27
📔the tip of the iceberg
📋Meaning
Only a small, often unrepresentative portion of something much larger or more complex that cannot yet be seen or understood.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣If congress doesn't vote to extend the debt limit, a government shutdown will only be the tip of the iceberg.
🗣The flooding is bad, but we're dealing with just the tip of the iceberg—a huge spate of environmental disasters are on the horizon because of climate change.
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21 March 2024 22:07
📔 a good voice to beg bacon
📋Meaning
Used to mock someone's voice as being strange, unpleasant, or inadequate (e.g., for singing). Bacon, being a dietary staple in older times, was often used as a metaphor for financial stability or wealth; having the voice of one who must "beg bacon," then, means having a harsh voice, like someone who is undernourished.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Did you hear the way that singer was screeching last night? I'm glad we didn't stay too long, he had a good voice to beg bacon.
🗣I love Alice, but, my goodness, the girl has a good voice to beg bacon! Please do not let her sign up for the talent show.
🗣I like to sing, but only in the shower—I know I have a good voice to beg bacon.
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20 March 2024 09:38
📔 harrowing experience
📋Meaning
An experience that is frightening, chilling, or disturbing, either due to an implied or actual element of danger, or from being physically or emotionally unpleasant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣With so much traffic, cycling in this city can be a harrowing experience.
🗣Walking through that graveyard last night was quite the harrowing experience.
🗣The film is very good, but it's a bit of a harrowing experience; it doesn't shy away from intense subject matter.
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19 March 2024 10:19
📔 against the collar
📋Meaning
Difficult, exhausting, or problematic. The phrase originates from the collar on a horse's harness, which tightens on the horse's neck when it travels uphill. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was doing fine in the marathon, but it was a bit against the collar for the last couple miles.
🗣I don't think I have time to meet you today. Work has been a bit against the collar recently.
🗣against the collar recently.Getting this late-breaking story finished in time for tomorrow's newspaper was somewhat against the collar, but it's done now, thankfully.
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04 April 2024 20:43
📔 bad omen
📋Meaning
A sign, either real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣It was a bad omen when my girlfriend broke up with me the day before my final exams.
🗣All of the recent natural disasters are a bad omen for the future of the planet.
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03 April 2024 11:10
📔 Weather a storm
📋Meaning
To survive a dangerous event or effectively deal with a difficult situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Last year, they had some financial difficulties when her husband was fired. Together, they weathered the storm and figured out how to keep going.”
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02 April 2024 13:15
📔 When it rains, it pours
📋Meaning
Bad things occur in large numbers, but many big things happen all at once.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “First he was laid off, then his wife got into a car accident. When it rains, it pours.“
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31 March 2024 21:13
📔 Chasing rainbows
📋Meaning
Following dreams, trying to do something that can’t be achieved.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “His paintings have neither style nor imagination, but he insists on being a professional painter. He’s always chasing rainbows.”
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29 March 2024 12:46
📔 a cut above the rest
📋Meaning
Better in quality than most others.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣This new restaurant is a cut above the rest.
🗣Trust me, Johannes is a cut above the rest. If you want the best legal advice money can buy, he's your man.
🗣An entrant's essay must be a cut above the rest for it to win our top prize.
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28 March 2024 15:04
📔 a cut above the rest
📋Meaning
Better in quality than most others.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣This new restaurant is a cut above the rest.
🗣Trust me, Johannes is a cut above the rest. If you want the best legal advice money can buy, he's your man.
🗣An entrant's essay must be a cut above the rest for it to win our top prize.
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27 March 2024 14:44
📔 a cut below
📋Meaning
Of lower quality than or inferior to someone or something else, especially that of the expected norm.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣This waiter is really a cut below what I would expect from this restaurant.
🗣Your essay was a cut below, honestly. That's why it didn't win the contest.
🗣I haven't been that impressed with any of the candidates for the sales position—they've just been a cut below.
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26 March 2024 12:18
📔 freak of nature
📋Meaning
Something or someone that is unusual, rare, or abnormal in some way; beyond or outside the natural world.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The goat they have at the circus sideshow is a real freak of nature, it was born with two heads!
🗣He can lift over 500 pounds in the gym, he's like some freak of nature.
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25 March 2024 09:58
📔 a free bit of advice
📋Meaning
A suggestion, opinion, or piece of advice that was unrequested or unsolicited by the recipient.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Allow me to give you a free bit of advice, my friend: don't say something you'll end up regretting later.
🗣I know you're worried about your kids, but here's a free bit of advice—you can't protect them from every little thing.
🗣Hey, here's a free bit of advice for you during your internship—always be kind and polite. People remember if you treat them well.
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24 March 2024 10:35
📔 funny feeling
📋Meaning
An intuition or premonition about something; a sense of foreknowledge about a situation, condition, or set of circumstances.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I have a funny feeling that this meeting isn't going to end in our favor.
🗣 I have this funny feeling that I've met this person before.
🗣I'm worried about our relationship. I got this funny feeling when I was talking to her last night.
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21 March 2024 03:06
📔run out of steam
📋Meaning
To lose one's energy, motivation, or enthusiasm to continue doing something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣After spending hours working on this project, I'm running out of steam—can we take a break?
🗣I decided to paint the bathroom ceiling but ran out of steam halfway through.
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19 March 2024 19:45
📔at stake
📋Meaning
If something is at stake, it is being risked and might be lost or damaged if you are not successful.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣two lives are at stake.
🗣The tension was naturally high for a game with so much at stake.
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18 March 2024 14:39
📔 hit the jackpot
📋Meaning 1
To win a large amount of money, especially in a lottery.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Stop wasting your money on lottery tickets—it's not like you'll ever hit the jackpot.
📋Meaning 2
To acquire or come into possession of something very beneficial or perfectly suited for one.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Marcy hit the jackpot with her new job—it's basically her dream job, plus a huge salary.
🗣When it comes to boyfriends, Tina hit the jackpot—Dean is basically the perfect guy.
📋Meaning 3
To find exactly what was sought or desired, especially in a large quantity.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣We needed poster board and hit the jackpot at the art supply store down the street.
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