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13 April 2023 05:30
📔 in the middle of nowhere
📋Meaning
In a very distant, remote, and isolated location.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'll never understand why they built this campus out here in the middle of nowhere.
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12 April 2023 05:30
📔 (as) silent as the grave
📋Meaning
Totally silent, especially as produces an ominous or foreboding effect.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I knew something was wrong when I walked into the meeting room and all the members of the board were silent as the grave.
🗣I hate staying in my grandma's house. It gets as silent as the grave at nighttime, and it really creeps me out.
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11 April 2023 05:30
📔 slanging match
📋Meaning
A bitter argument or dispute in which each side hurls numerous insults, accusations, or verbal abuse at one another. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣At first, I thought we were just going through a rough patch in our relationship, but lately, it seems like every night Janet and I get into a slanging match with each other. It might be time to end things.
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10 April 2023 05:30
📔get wise to (someone or something)
📋To become fully aware or cognizant of someone or something, especially if he, she, or it is suspicious, illegal, or malicious in nature or intention.
🗣We'd better watch our step—I think the police are getting wise to us!
🗣I hope my brother doesn't get wise to my scheme to take over the company.
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09 April 2023 05:30
📔 one-up (someone)
📋Meaning
To make a point of outdoing, outperforming, outclassing, etc., someone.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣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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08 April 2023 05:30
📔 pearly whites
📋Meaning
A person's set of teeth.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Be sure to brush your pearly whites twice a day, or you might end up getting a cavity!
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07 April 2023 05:30
📔 now (someone) has gone and done it
📋Meaning
Someone has just done something very grave, foolish, and/or irreparable.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"Now you've gone and done it! My mother's gonna tan our hides for breaking that!
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06 April 2023 05:30
📔 lay hold of (someone or something)
📋Meaning
To grasp or grip someone or something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Lay hold of that end of the sheet and pull it straight.
🗣I tried to lay hold of her before she fell off the step, but it happened too fast.
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05 April 2023 17:30
📔 It's not rocket science
📋Meaning
It is easy to understand or is not difficult to do/understand
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My coach always said, "Basketball is not rocket science. It's about putting the ball in the basket."
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04 April 2023 17:30
📔 call it a day
📋Meaning
decide or agree to stop doing something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"after three marriages, many men would have been more than ready to call it a day"
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03 April 2023 17:30
📔 A dime a dozen
📋Meaning
very common and of no particular value.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"experts in this field are a dime a dozen"
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02 April 2023 17:30
📔 Go back to the drawing board
📋Meaning
Start over
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The current system just isn’t working – we need to go back to the drawing board and start afresh.
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01 April 2023 17:30
📔 Pull yourself together
📋Meaning
recover control of one's emotions./ Calm down.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"you've got to pull yourself together and find a job"
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31 March 2023 17:30
📔 Give someone the benefit of the doubt
📋Meaning
Trust what someone says
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I didn't know whether his story was true or not, but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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13 April 2023 17:30
📔 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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12 April 2023 17:30
📔 jazz something / someone up
📋Meaning
to make something or someone more interesting, appealing, exciting or stylish
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I love how French women dress. They know just how to jazz a simple outfit up with something very unique.
🗣 What time can we get into the gym tomorrow afternoon? We need to jazz it up for the school dance.
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11 April 2023 17:30
📔 Beat the pants off
📋Meaning
to easily win against someone by a large margin or score; to surpass or be more successful than another.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 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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10 April 2023 17:30
📔go off the rails
📋Meaning 1
To go into a state of chaos, dysfunction, or disorder.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Our project has started going off the rails ever since the manager up and quit last month.
Meaning 2
To become crazy, eccentric, or mentally unhinged; to begin acting in an uncontrollable, inappropriate and/or socially unacceptable manner.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My youngest son started going off the rails shortly after getting into drugs in high school.
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09 April 2023 17:30
📔 Wrap your head around something
📋Meaning
Understand something complicated
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I just couldn't wrap my head around what had happened.
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08 April 2023 17:30
📔 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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07 April 2023 17:30
📔 the last straw
📋Meaning
a further difficulty or annoyance, typically minor in itself but coming on top of a series of difficulties, that makes a situation unbearable.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣"his affair was the last straw"
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06 April 2023 17:30
📔 take after someone
📋Meaning
to resemble, look like or have the same qualities as a relative
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My son takes after his grandfather with his musical talent.
🗣 It’s strange but I don’t really take after anyone in my family—everyone is short and has dark hair while I’m tall with blonde hair and green eyes.
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05 April 2023 05:30
📔 romp home
📋Meaning
To deftly or easily win a race, contest, or competition. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣With her arch-rival out of commission with a pulled hamstring, the defending champion romped home at the Olympics once again.
🗣Showing their utter superiority on the pitch, the boys in blue look set to romp home to a 6–2 victory.
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04 April 2023 05:30
📔 scream (one's) head off
📋Meaning
To scream or yell very loudly and lengthily.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Suzy screamed her head off when I told her she couldn't have an ice cream cone.
🗣The stadium was packed with fans screaming their heads off for the popular band.
🗣Don't bother listening to the crazies who stand on street corners and scream their heads off at passersby.
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03 April 2023 05:30
📔 at top speed
📋Meaning
As fast as something or someone can go.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Once Tom caught the ball, he took off at top speed toward the end zone.
🗣I started feeling nauseous on the way home because Kelly was driving at top speed on a windy highway.
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02 April 2023 05:30
📔 written all over (one's) face
📋Meaning
Evident by one's facial expression. Said of one's emotions or inner thoughts.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Jenny said she wasn't scared before we went into the haunted house, but terror was written all over her face.
🗣John said nothing, but his response was written all over his face.
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01 April 2023 05:30
📔 the end of (one's) rope
📋Meaning
A point of utter exhaustion or exasperation; a point or state at which one has no more patience, endurance, or energy left.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Joshua started throwing a tantrum this afternoon, and with all the other things I have to get done, I've just reached the end of my rope!
🗣Daniel's been at the end of his rope for weeks now—he has seriously got to get a different job!
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31 March 2023 05:30
📔 quake like a leaf
📋Meaning
To tremble violently with fear or nervousness.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My brother is so strong and scary-looking that he leaves people quaking like a leaf when he threatens them.
🗣I was quaking like a leaf when I went up to deliver my speech.
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