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24 April 2023 05:30

📔 break a leg!


📋Meaning
good luck!


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"Remember, the show must go on! Good luck and break a leg!"
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22 April 2023 17:30

📔 wet behind the ears


📋Meaning
lacking experience; immature.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"he's a nice young fellow but a bit wet behind the ears"
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21 April 2023 17:30

📔 through thick and thin


📋Meaning
  under all circumstances, no matter how difficult.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "they stuck together through thick and thin"
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21 April 2023 05:30

📔 bump heads with


📋Meaning
To clash with another person on a particular issue.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Monica and I are always bumping heads with each other about how to go about these reports because she wants to start writing, while I think we should research first.

🗣I just know I'm going to have to bump heads with Ted again about this budget—we always want to cut different things.
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20 April 2023 05:30

📔 steely-eyed



📋Meaning
With or having a fierce intensity in one's expression.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The teacher fixed a steely-eyed gaze upon me when I started joking around during class.

🗣I could feel my ex-girlfriend staring at me, steely-eyed, from across the bar.
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19 April 2023 06:30

📔 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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18 April 2023 06:00

📔 publicity hound


📋Meaning
Someone who seeks to have the attention of the public constantly focused on him- or herself, typically by means of attracting media coverage.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The former actor's run at politics is seen by many as just another stunt by a publicity hound desperate to keep the spotlight on himself.
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17 April 2023 05:30

📔be on (one's) best behavior

📋Meaning
To be very polite or exercise exceptionally good manners. Primarily heard in US.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Now, you kids must be on your best behavior for your Auntie this weekend!Good morning, class.

🗣I hope everyone was on their best behavior for the substitute teacher yesterday.
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16 April 2023 05:43

📔 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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15 April 2023 05:33

📔 be running on fumes



📋Meaning
To be continuing to operate with no or very little enthusiasm, energy, or resources left.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I've been painting the house for four hours every night after work, and I am seriously running on fumes at this point.

🗣 We were running on fumes by the time our team made it to the championship round.
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14 April 2023 05:30

📔 throw a wobbly


📋Meaning
To suddenly become very upset or intensely angry and make a big display of it. Primarily heard in UK, Australia.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣John threw a wobbly at work after the boss criticized his report. Needless to say, he won't be welcome back in the office on Monday.
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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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23 April 2023 17:30

📔 talk to the hand



📋Meaning
A rude interjection meant to interrupt and dismiss what another person is saying. (Sometimes written or spoken in longer forms, such as, "talk to the hand, because the face isn't listening," or the like.)


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Dad: "Sarah, would you mind cleaning up the—" Sarah: "Talk to the hand, Dad! I've got too much going on to be dealing with chores around the house!"

🗣All of us were aghast when Jonathan turned to the police officer and said, "Talk to the hand, 'cause the face ain't interested!"
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22 April 2023 05:30

📔 until all hours (of the day and night)


📋Meaning
Until a very late hour of the night or early hour of the morning.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Johnny keeps taking the car and staying out until all hours, and I just don't know what to do anymore!

🗣My boyfriend lives in another state, so to make up for the long distance, we stay up talking until all hours of the day and night.
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21 April 2023 15:02

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20 April 2023 17:31

📔 jam session



📋Meaning
  an often impromptu performance by a group especially of jazz musicians that is characterized by improvisation.


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🗣 The musical siblings then invite Lisa over to Billie’s studio for a special jam session.

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19 April 2023 17:30

📔 taken aback




📋Meaning
  to be surprised, shocked or confused about something



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I was taken aback when your mother asked if I’m having trouble getting pregnant.

🗣 My friend was taken aback when I asked him if he smokes weed.
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18 April 2023 17:30

📔in the blink of an eye

📋Meaning
So quickly as to seem almost imperceptible (i.e., in the space of time it takes a person to blink).

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The high-speed camera reveals how the frog uses its specialized tongue to capture the insect in the blink of an eye.

🗣Working on Wall Street, you get used to massive financial changes happening in the blink of an eye.
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17 April 2023 17:30

📔 take a powder


📋Meaning
depart quickly, especially in order to avoid a difficult situation.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When he saw the police coming, the thief decided to take a powder.”
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16 April 2023 17:30

📔 Head in the sand




📋Meaning
to ignore or refuse to think about a problem or something unpleasant.



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🗣   I knew I needed to finish my paper before exams started but I just kept my head in the sand and now I won't have time to finish it before its due.

🗣You've had your head in the sand about this marriage for two years and now I'm too tired to work on it. I want a divorce! 

🗣Here are three overdue bills! I can't believe you're burying your head in the sand again.
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15 April 2023 17:30

📔 behind the eight ball


📋Meaning
In a challenging situation; at a disadvantage. An "eight ball" is one of the numbered balls used in the game of pool, and the last one supposed to be hit into a pocket. If the eight ball is accidentally hit into a pocket prematurely, the player will lose, and it therefore needs to be avoided.

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🗣If we don't leave early tomorrow, we'll be behind the eight ball, and I doubt we'll reach the cabin by dusk.

🗣Because I got the flu, I'm behind the eight ball with my Christmas shopping.
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14 April 2023 17:30

📔 Make a mountain out of a molehill



📋Meaning
  To exaggerate the severity of a situation.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “She shouted at him angrily for being five minutes late, but it really didn’t matter that much. She really made a mountain out of a molehill.”
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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.


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🗣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 ⬇️

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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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