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18 October 2023 12:15

📔 Buy a lemon



📋Meaning
  To buy a lemon means to buy something (usually a motor vehicle) that doesn’t work well and is therefore worthless.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “The car looked so new and shiny I had no way of knowing I was buying a lemon.”
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17 October 2023 10:40

📔 Have a sweet tooth



📋Meaning
  Do you like eating cakes, candy and other sweet-tasting food? If you do, then you can say you have a sweet tooth.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Yes, I definitely have a sweet tooth. I can never walk past a bakery and not stop to buy myself a slice of chocolate cake.”
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16 October 2023 08:07

📔 A storm is brewing




📋Meaning
  There will be trouble or emotional upset in the near future.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “She decided to go ahead with their wedding, even though all they’ve been doing lately is arguing. I can sense a storm is brewing.”
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15 October 2023 10:55

📔 Calm before the storm



📋Meaning
  An unusually quiet period before a period of upheaval (problems, chaos).



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “The strange quietness in town made her feel peaceful. Little did she know, it was just the calm before the storm.”
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14 October 2023 11:26

📔 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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12 October 2023 17:10

📔 take a bawling out



📋Meaning
To receive a very severe rebuke, chastisement, or scolding (from someone).


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I sure took a bawling out from my parents after I smashed up their car.
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11 October 2023 20:17

📔 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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10 October 2023 20:46

💠 hunt where the ducks are

✍🏾 To pursue or look for one's objectives, results, or goals in the place where one is most likely to find them.

If you're looking to expand your customer base, you need to identify who would benefit from your business the most and then hunt where the ducks are
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09 October 2023 19:04

📔high muckety muck

📋slang An especially important, influential, and authoritative person, especially someone who is overbearingly or arrogantly so.

🗣We're just waiting for the high muckety muck to give us the green light before we get the project started.
🗣"All hail the high muckety muck," Jerry muttered under his breath as the dictator's motorcade rolled by.
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08 October 2023 20:36

📔 close as the bark to the tree


📋Meaning
As connected as is possible. Often used to describe a particularly intimate relationship or friendship.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Jenna and Elise are as close as the bark to the tree—I rarely see one without the other!
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07 October 2023 20:06

📔 pound sand



📋Meaning
To engage in pointless, menial efforts or labor. Used especially as an imperative to express disdain, contempt, or dismissal.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I can't believe Sam told his teacher to go pound sand. Where does that kid get such attitude?

🗣Charles, why don't you pound sand instead of coming around here hassling me about my business?
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05 October 2023 19:53

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05 October 2023 08:46

📔 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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04 October 2023 07:53

📔 Get into deep water



📋Meaning
 To be in trouble. Very similar to the idiom in hot water that we discussed above.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “He got into deep water when he borrowed a lot of money from a loan shark.”
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02 October 2023 18:32

📔 Pour oil on troubled waters



📋Meaning
  To try to make people feel better and become friendly again after an argument. 



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “She hated seeing her two best friends arguing, so she got them together and poured oil on troubled waters.”
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17 October 2023 20:28

📔 salad years



📋Meaning
A carefree time of youthful innocence, ingenuousness, and inexperience. A variant of the more common term "salad days," which comes from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I thought that I had experienced true romantic love back in my salad years, before I graduated. Now, however, I think love is largely an elaborate delusion.

🗣Whenever I ask my grandfather the meaning of a word I hear on TV, he always laughs and says he'll tell me when I'm no longer in my salad years.
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16 October 2023 19:41

📔 shed a tear



📋Meaning
To cry or weep, especially from grief; to grieve or mourn in general.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Everyone in the room was shedding tears by the end of the ceremony.

🗣Their relationship had soured so much over the years that John didn't shed a tear when he heard of his brother's death.
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15 October 2023 18:48

📔 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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14 October 2023 20:56

📔 ball the jack


📋Meaning
Speed up. Go fast. This phrase came from the American rail industry, in which a train was nicknamed a "jack," while "highball" meant to proceed.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣A: "Come on Tom, pick up the pace, ball the jack, let's move!" B: "Ugh, I can't run any faster this early in the morning!"
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12 October 2023 17:15

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12 October 2023 08:13

📔 When it rains, it pours



📋Meaning
  Bad things occur in large numbers, but many big things happen all at once.



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🗣 “First he was laid off, then his wife got into a car accident. When it rains, it pours.“
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11 October 2023 10:45

📔 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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10 October 2023 07:51

📔 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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09 October 2023 11:24

📔 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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08 October 2023 10:33

📔 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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07 October 2023 10:38

📔 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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05 October 2023 19:48

📔 weep (one's) heart out


📋Meaning
To weep copiously; to cry intensely and for a long time.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Lauren wept her heart out at the news of her father's sudden death.

🗣What did you say to upset your brother? He's been weeping his heart out upstairs for the last half hour!
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04 October 2023 19:44

📔have a nodding acquaintance (with someone or something)

📋Meaning
To have a slight or precursory knowledge of someone or something.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Jim asked me to help fix his computer for him, but I'm afraid I only have a nodding acquaintance with how his machine works.

🗣Ruth and I had only a nodding acquaintance before going to the party, but once we got talking, it was like we'd been friends our whole lives.

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03 October 2023 04:55

📔on the fiddle


📋Meaning
Engaged in deceitful, fraudulent, or dishonest means of obtaining money.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My career will be over if anyone ever finds out I was on the fiddle during my time as the company treasurer.

🗣There are always politicians on the fiddle, looking for ways to use their positions of power to earn a bit more money.
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02 October 2023 10:09

📔 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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