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11 January 2024 08:18
📔 crack someone up
📋Meaning
make someone suddenly laugh a lot / to suddenly laugh a lot
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My two year old cracks us up because he's so naughty and we try desperately not to laugh.
🗣 Your dad's dancing really cracks me up. He's a big hip-hop fan I guess?
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10 January 2024 19:47
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09 January 2024 19:06
📔 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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08 January 2024 19:46
📔 brazen it out
📋Meaning
To face a difficult, uncertain, or intimidating situation with brave or impudent self-confidence.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'm terrified to give this presentation, but I just have to brazen it out and hope for the best.
🗣Timmy brazened it out when his teacher scolded him for misbehaving.
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07 January 2024 19:13
📔 Potemkin village
📋Meaning
Something that is made to seem very grand, elaborate, or prosperous for the purposes of impressing others, but which in reality has no real worth or substance. Taken from a story about Russian minister Grigory Potemkin (1739–1791), who allegedly erected false, painted façades to mimic a thriving, successful village along the Dnieper River in Crimea to impress the visiting Empress Catherine II.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The tightly controlled totalitarian country is often accused of creating a Potemkin village each time it televises some event, a meager attempt to convince the outside world that its people are happy under the thumb of the dictatorship.
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06 January 2024 19:43
💠 hair-splittingly
✍🏾 With extremely minute, unimportant, or imperceptible differences or details. (Used before an adjective.)
I think it's clear to see that the defendant's work is only hair-splittingly distinct from that of my client.
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04 January 2024 07:18
📔 safe and sound
📋Meaning
not hurt or injured
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My dog disappeared for two days and I was so worried but today she showed up safe and sound.
🗣 Drive safely, and when you get home don’t forget to call us to let us know you’ve arrived safe and sound.
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03 January 2024 06:50
📔 that ship has sailed
📋Meaning
an opportunity has already passed and is no longer possible
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I've thought about going back to college but I feel like that ship has sailed.
🗣 We bought a different house because by the time we decided on the other one, that ship had already sailed.
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02 January 2024 10:57
📔 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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01 January 2024 10:12
📔 make off with something
📋Meaning
to steal something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Unbelievable. Someone made off with the new bottle of hand lotion I put on my desk.
🗣 I had a party Friday night and one of the guests made off with several of my bracelets.
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31 December 2023 09:21
📔 the world is your oyster
📋Meaning
used to say that you can do anything or go anywhere you want in life.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 That's awesome you're learning English. With English, the world is your oyster!
🗣 You're young and beautiful. Don't be sad, the world is your oyster.
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30 December 2023 10:47
📔 warm up to (someone/something)
📋Meaning
to begin to like someone/something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My mother is so afraid of everything she’s just beginning to warm up to using the microwave.
🗣 Since our baby was born, my father is finally starting to warm up to my husband.
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28 December 2023 19:19
📔on the down low
📋Meaning 1
In a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge; being known only by a select few people.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Keep this on the down low, but Janet is planning to break up with Kevin next week.
🗣My parents know about the pregnancy, but I'd like it to stay on the down low otherwise.
📋Meaning 2
In a state of secrecy or minimal public knowledge pertaining to the activities of a man who has sex with other men but considers himself to be heterosexual.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I never thought he was gay, but then I started to hear rumors that he's on the down low.
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11 January 2024 19:12
📔 Were you born in a tent?
📋Meaning
Have you no basic manners? (Usually said after someone has left open a door to the outside.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Shut the door, it's freezing outside! Were you born in a tent?
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10 January 2024 19:49
📔 (the) man/woman of the hour
📋Meaning
A person currently being celebrated, honored, or admired by others, especially for a recent victory, accomplishment, or other cause for celebration.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Janet was woman of the hour at the office after securing the biggest customer their business had ever had.
🗣 Ruth: "Hey, what's going on here?" Dave: "It's a surprise birthday party for you, Ruth! You're the woman of the hour!"
🗣 After writing that bombshell exposé about corruption in Washington, Jake was the man of the hour.
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10 January 2024 07:05
📔 stir the pot
📋Meaning
To deliberately try to make a situation or people more tense and upset.
To unnecessarily create trouble or drama, often to get a reaction from someone.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My old girlfriend was always trying to stir the pot and I really hated the drama.
🗣 I look fat in these jeans? Wow, you're really trying to stir the pot.
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09 January 2024 10:31
📔 a race against time
📋Meaning
A situation where someone has to finish something quickly, in a short or limited amount of time.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Last night we were racing against time to put the packets together before the conference started today.
🗣 It's a real race against the clock to prevent the spread of the Zika virus.
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08 January 2024 08:11
📔 unsung hero
📋Meaning
Someone who has done something heroic or achieved greatness but has not been recognized or celebrated for the achievement
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Two men were unsung heroes rescuing several puppies from the fire after the police determined it was too dangerous to enter the burning house.
🗣 My colleague was really the unsung hero for the development of our most successful product this year.
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07 January 2024 10:36
📔 Thank your lucky stars
📋Meaning
to be grateful and feel lucky (especially that something bad didn't happen)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 We thanked our lucky stars that the tree that fell on our house did not injure anyone.
🗣 You should thank your lucky stars you didn't get COVID at that crowded party.
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06 January 2024 09:13
📔 The lion's share
📋Meaning
The largest part (or share) of something.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My son is upset that his brother got the lion's share of the cake but I explained this was fair because it was his birthday.
🗣My husband does help out at home with some cleaning and cooking, but like most women, I do the lion's share of the housework.
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04 January 2024 20:38
📔 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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03 January 2024 18:50
💠 use up
✍🏾To deplete an entire supply or amount of something.
I can't believe you used up all of my shampoo and just left the empty bottle in the shower!
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02 January 2024 19:44
📔 between dog and wolf
📋Meaning
Between dusk and daylight.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣What were you guys doing out between dog and wolf? You better not have been getting into trouble last night!
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01 January 2024 19:21
💠 house cooling party
✍🏾 A party thrown to commemorate when someone leaves an apartment, flat, or house.
We've loved living in this place, so we've decided to throw a house cooling party for all our friends to celebrate all the good times we've had here.
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31 December 2023 20:30
📔 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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30 December 2023 18:37
📔 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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28 December 2023 07:01
📔 bear fruit
📋Meaning
to yield a positive result
to produce a desired result
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 You've been going to the library everyday for the past two months so I really hope your studying bears fruit this semester.
🗣 We were pleased to see that our management training program bore fruit when staff retention and productivity both increased by more than 50% over the past year.
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