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15 February 2023 04:30

📔 Better late than never



📋Meaning
  It is better to be late than to never arrive or never complete a task.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "it took them the majority of the campaign to come to that conclusion, but better late than never"

🗣 It's been a long time coming but better late than never. 
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14 February 2023 14:32

😃What do you want?

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14 February 2023 04:30

📔 Beat around the bush



📋Meaning
  To avoid the difficult part of the conversation.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Quit beating around the bush.
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13 February 2023 06:39

🤑How much money do you want to earn?

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12 February 2023 21:08

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12 February 2023 16:31

📔(one's) other half


📋Meaning
One's spouse, romantic partner, or boyfriend/girlfriend.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'd love to come out to the bars with you after work, but I'd better check in with my other half to make sure we don't have any plans for this evening.

🗣The work retreat is meant to be for couples, so be sure to bring your other half!
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11 February 2023 16:30

📔 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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10 February 2023 17:30

📔 bare (one's) teeth


📋Meaning
To display an angry, violent, or threatening reaction to or against something or someone, as does a dog or wolf when threatened.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I will bare my teeth to anyone who tries to take away my land.

🗣We seemed to be getting along just fine, but she suddenly bared her teeth when I brought up religion.
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10 February 2023 03:30

📔 steady as she goes



📋Meaning
  Describing an activity or situation that is progressing in a stable manner. This nautical phrase was originally used in reference to a ship that was sailing steadily. (Ships were traditionally referred to as female.)


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 A: "How's your new business coming along?" B: "Steady as she goes! We expect to break even the first year before we start making a profit."

🗣  In the midst of all this social upheaval, I hope our government can maintain a steady-as-she-goes approach.
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09 February 2023 09:56

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08 February 2023 04:09

📔 out of humour


📋Meaning
In an irritable, grouchy, or unhappy mood; not feeling well or in good spirits. Primarily heard in UK.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I think something is bugging John because he's been rather out of humour lately.

🗣After living in Gibraltar for so long, these awful London winters leave me feeling me out of humour.
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07 February 2023 03:42

📔 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth


📋Meaning
proverb Compensation or retribution that is (or should be) of an equal amount or degree to the injury or offense that was originally dealt. The saying comes from various passages in the Bible, including in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I cannot be placated by paltry excuses of reparation! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—this I demand from all who have wronged me.

🗣Some countries have laws that punish crimes with an eye for an eye, most often that killing someone will result in one's death.

🗣The world would be a safer place if more people in power would discourage the practice of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
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06 February 2023 05:30

📔 help (someone) out of a fix


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

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣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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05 February 2023 12:42

📔 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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04 February 2023 05:05

📔 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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14 February 2023 16:30

📔 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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14 February 2023 04:51

❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥 ❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥Happy Valentine's day ❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥❤️❤️‍🔥

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13 February 2023 16:30

📔 a bit of a stretch


📋Meaning
A mild exaggeration beyond the truth or what is likely the case.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I'm not too fond of taxes either, but it's a bit of a stretch to claim they are the cause of all our problems.

🗣A: "The government is covering up all sorts of extraterrestrial activity." B: "Come on now, don't you think that's a bit of a stretch?"

🗣He still doesn't have the votes? Then I guess it was a bit of a stretch for him to say he'd get the bill passed this week.
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13 February 2023 04:30

📔 At the drop of a hat (part of a sentence)



📋Meaning
  To do something without any hesitation.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 If Tara hears her favorite song, she’ll belt out the lyrics at the drop of a hat.
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12 February 2023 17:01

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12 February 2023 04:30

📔 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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11 February 2023 04:30

📔 Add insult to injury (part of a sentence)



📋Meaning
  To add another bad situation on top of an existing one.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 To add insult to injury, it started to rain after I locked my keys in my car.
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10 February 2023 13:43

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09 February 2023 20:26

📔 backpedal


📋Meaning
To quickly and often abruptly reverse or retreat from one's position or opinion on a given subject. Refers to pedaling backwards on a bicycle (done to apply the brakes on fixed-gear bikes), or to taking quick, backward steps, as in football or boxing.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The actor had to backpedal when he let slip a racist remark during the press conference.
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08 February 2023 18:37

📔 bad hair day




📋Meaning
  a bad day in general;  a day when many things seem to go wrong

 a day when you can't style your hair well and this makes you feel unattractive


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Yesterday, my mom was having a bad hair day so I decided to show her my report card this evening.

🗣 Avoid the boss if you can. He's having yet another bad hair day and is taking his frustrations out on everyone.
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07 February 2023 17:51

📔a chip off the old block

📋Meaning
someone who resembles their parent in character or appearance.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"she smiled at Jimmy, a chip off the old block with his gray eyes and a bit of his dad's twinkle"

🗣When we saw the alcoholic's son enter the liquor store, we assumed that he was a chip of the old block.

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06 February 2023 20:58

📔 Go with the flow



📋Meaning
  To relax and go along with whatever’s happening.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Quite often in life, good things happen when you don’t make plans. Just go with the flow and see what happens!”
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05 February 2023 20:56

📔 See eye to eye



📋Meaning
To agree with someone about something
To have the same opinion as someone else about something


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My mom and I don't see eye to eye on politics so we discuss other things.

🗣 Happiness is seeing eye to eye with your wife about how to spend money.
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04 February 2023 20:35

📔 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



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Our bookkeeper always imagined that the grass is greener on the other side. She quit her job to pursue a legal education.

🗣 Bob always thinks the grass is greener elsewhere, which accounts for his constant job changes.
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02 February 2023 07:12

📔 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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