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14 March 2024 11:50

📔 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.

🤔For example ⬇️


🗣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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12 March 2024 21:22

📔 ride the rail(s)



📋Meaning
To travel on a vehicle mounted on rails (especially a train or streetcar).


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I know it takes a lot longer than flying, but I love riding the rail from Portland to Vancouver.

🗣People often romanticize riding the rails across the country as hobos did during the Great Depression, but I doubt many would actually find much pleasure in it.
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11 March 2024 21:03

📔 have known better days


📋Meaning
To be or look particularly shabby, ill-kept, or in poor condition.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Well, this car has known better days, but it's been reliable for me since the day I bought it 20 years ago.

🗣The poor guy who runs the building is a sweet fellow, but he has certainly known better days by the looks of him.
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10 March 2024 20:33

📔nose into (something)

📋Meaning
To investigate something; to try to find information about something, especially private, secret, or sensitive matters.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The last thing we need right now are tax auditors nosing into our accounts.

🗣You really need to stop nosing into other people's affairs, or you're going to start losing friends.

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09 March 2024 07:41

📔 Wear your heart on your sleeve



📋Meaning
  To show your feelings openly.


🤔For example ⬇️


🗣My boyfriend's never been too shy to wear his heart on his sleeve but I'm the opposite.

🗣That's the last time I'm going to wear my heart on my sleeve. As soon as I show my feelings guys act arrogant with me.

🗣My father was raised to be a tough guy so he could never wear his heart on his sleeve.

🗣Sometimes in business it’s not great to wear your heart on your sleeve.

🗣You’d never be good a poker. You always wear your heart on your sleeve.
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07 March 2024 20:25

📔on (someone's) wrong side


📋Meaning
Displeasing to someone; provoking someone's anger, contempt, or dismissal.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The best way to get through this class is to say nothing unless called upon, and to make sure you don't get on the teacher's wrong side!

🗣I thought it was all in good fun, but I might have gotten on her wrong side with my sarcastic comments.
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06 March 2024 20:49

📔 shaken up



📋Meaning
Greatly startled, shocked, or upset.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I was very shaken up after the car accident. I couldn't even speak properly to the police for about an hour.

🗣I remained shaken up for most of the day after hearing about my grandfather's death.
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05 March 2024 20:21

📔 put (one's) back up



📋Meaning
To be or become angry, hostile, defensive, defiant, or irritable, or to instill such a feeling in someone else.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣John put his back up when his parents brought up the subject of college.

🗣Election season always puts my dad's back up.
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04 March 2024 20:49

💠 hustle (one's) bustle

✍🏾 To increase one's pace or sense of urgency; to hurry up; to get moving quickly.

We'd better hustle our bustle if we want to get to the movie theater on time!
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03 March 2024 20:07

📔 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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02 March 2024 19:12

📔 talk a mile a minute



📋Meaning
To speak in a very quick or hurried manner; to talk very fast.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣When the boss gets excited, she starts talking a mile a minute, and I can never follow everything she's trying to say!
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01 March 2024 12:10

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29 February 2024 05:49

📔 Dig your own grave (idiom)




📋Meaning
doing something that will cause you to have problems in the future.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  I hope you know you're digging you own grave by continuing to smoke a pack of cigarettes every day.

🗣 My son dug his own grave by cheating on his exams. 


🗣 Spending all of your time with your boyfriend rather than studying is digging your own grave.
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28 February 2024 06:56

📔 a drop in the bucket




📋Meaning
a very small or unimportant amount, especially when compared to something else.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  For years businesses have dumped toxic waste into the ocean thinking it was just a drop in the bucket but that behavior has destroyed many ecosystems.



🗣 I raked leaves all afternoon but I know it's just a drop in the bucket and the lawn will be covered again tomorrow.


🗣 "Two cans of beer at lunch?" "Yes. That's actually just a drop in the bucket of what I usually drink."
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27 February 2024 05:40

📔 Sleep on it 




📋Meaning
to wait until the next day (in order to think carefully) before making an important decision.

✍Notes
What's "IT" in the picture above?  "It" is any decision that you have to make.  



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣  I received two jobs offers today. I asked them both to let me sleep on it so I can review the offers and decide which is best.

🗣I wanted to sleep on it but my manager said I had to sign the contract by the end of the day.


🗣 I wish I had slept on the purchase because the next day I found a much nicer dress and I can't return the one I bought.
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13 March 2024 09:18

📔 leave a bad taste in mouth


📋Meaning
To give one a negative impression (based on something that has already happened).

🤔For example ⬇️


🗣I don't know, man, the fact that he lied to you just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

🗣The way they conducted the interview left a bad taste in my mouth. I don't think I'd accept the job even if they offered it.
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12 March 2024 08:55

📔 Catch with one's pants down


📋Meaning
 to surprise someone in an embarrassing situation;

 to find someone while they're doing something wrong.


🤔For example ⬇️


🗣When I came home early I caught my son with his pants down, smoking one of my husband's cigars with his friends.

🗣My parents caught me with my pants down stealing beer from the keg in the garage.
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11 March 2024 10:49

📔 Spill the beans



📋Meaning
 to tell someone a secret or tell information before you were supposed to.
 

🤔For example ⬇️


🗣 I accidentally spilled the beans when I told my friend we're painting the baby's room pink.  

🗣I cannot believe you spilled the beans about our party tomorrow—now I'll have to invite Nancy.

🗣Mark and I got engaged last night but don't spill the beans to anyone—I want to tell mom and dad in person tomorrow night.

🗣If I spill the beans will you promise not to tell anyone else?
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10 March 2024 07:20

📔 a needle in a haystack



📋Meaning
  something that is very difficult to find (especially because the area you have to search is so large)



🤔For example ⬇️


🗣I looked everywhere for my earring at the beach but it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

🗣We've been looking for an apartment in Geneva for six weeks and it's like finding a needle in a haystack.

🗣We honestly spent two hours looking for you at the music festival but it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

🗣There's an error somewhere in our sales log and it's a needle in a haystack. We can't find it.

🗣Rescue teams searched the canyon for three days but locating the missing hikers was like finding a needle in a haystack.
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08 March 2024 16:39

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07 March 2024 09:55

📔 barking up the wrong tree




📋Meaning
  We use the expression “barking up the wrong tree” as a metaphor to describe when someone is trying to achieve something but they're doing it in the wrong way (or they are trying to get something but they will not be successful).


   1) doing something that will not get you the result you want;

  2) to be wrong about the reason for something.

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🗣 I tried to get information from the receptionist about the director but she was just a temporary employee so I was barking up the wrong tree.

🗣My roommate has been flattering her professor to try to become a teaching assistant but she's barking up the wrong tree since the department chair makes those decisions. 

🗣My brother keeps bugging my sister for money but he's barking up the wrong tree because she's broke.

🗣You're barking up the wrong tree if you think you'll get into Harvard with your grades.
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06 March 2024 09:04

📔 cross that bridge when (one) comes to it




📋Meaning
  To address something only when it actually happens or becomes an issue.


 

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🗣 A: "Should we reach out to our distributors and let them know there may be a problem down the line?" B: "No, let's just cross that bridge when we get there."

🗣The job interview is a week away, so I'm not worried about it yet—I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
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05 March 2024 09:43

📔 a man (or woman) of few words



📋Meaning
  
a person who does not talk a lot, only when he or she has something important to say



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 My father isn’t shy at all—he’s just a man of few words.

🗣I prefer to be with a man of few words than with someone who enjoys listening to himself talk all day.

🗣My girlfriend is a woman of few words so when she talks, everyone stops and listens.
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04 March 2024 06:54

📔 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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03 March 2024 08:55

📔 At a snail's pace



📋Meaning
Very slowly.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I'm never coming to this restaurant again. They serve the food at a snail's pace.      

🗣I recommend you bring a book when you go to the post office. It's the holidays and they always work at a snail's pace this time of year.     

🗣  Traffic was moving at a snail's pace so I arrived 45 minutes late for work.
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02 March 2024 07:08

📔 the ball is in someone’s court



📋Meaning
the moment when someone has the responsibility of taking the next action or making the next decision


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I filled out the application and provided all the information they asked for so now the ball's in their court and all I can do is wait.

🗣 I sent the agreement over for them to sign so the ball is now in their court. 

🗣 I called the girl I met in a bar last night and left a message. The ball's in her court now.
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29 February 2024 19:01

📔 tickle (one's) funny bone


📋Meaning
To make one laugh; to be humorous or amusing to one.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣There's this silly statue on campus that never fails to tickle my funny bone when I walk past it.

🗣David has such wit that he can tickle the funny bone of anyone he meets.
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28 February 2024 20:08

📔 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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27 February 2024 19:42

📔 be rushed off (one's) feet



📋Meaning
To be exceptionally busy, especially to an exhausting or exasperating degree; to be made to work very hard and very quickly.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣We have three parties of 40 scheduled for the dining room this evening, so all of our servers are going to be rushed off their feet.

🗣With three young kids, it's hard to remember a time when I wasn't rushed off my feet.
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26 February 2024 20:34

📔 be smashed to smithereens



📋Meaning
To be broken apart or otherwise destroyed into tiny, fragmentary pieces. "Smithereens," first appearing in English in 1829 as "smiddereens," is likely derived from the Irish word "smidirín" or "smidiríní," meaning "fragment."


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I wish I could still go visit our old family home, but it's already been smashed to smithereens by the demolition crew.

🗣The village was smashed to smithereens by the typhoon's gale-force winds.
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