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📔 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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📔 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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📔 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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📔 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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📔 walking on eggshells (eggs)



📋Meaning
to be extremely careful around someone in order not to upset them



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Whenever my mother-in-law visits I'm walking on eggshells in my own home.

🗣We've all been walking on eggshells around my father since he lost his job.

🗣Everyone is walking on eggshells at my firm because the owner is visiting our office this week.
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📔 with reckless abandon



📋Meaning
With rash, unrestrained impulsiveness, enthusiasm, or zeal.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Ever since my brother got that car for his birthday, he's been motoring around at night with reckless abandon.

🗣The insurgents set upon the town and began firing their weapons with reckless abandon.
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📔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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📔 dead asleep


📋Meaning
In a deep, immovable sleep.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I was dead asleep after my 12-hour shift; I didn't even hear the neighbor's car alarm going off!
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📔 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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📔knock (one's) head against a/the wall

📋To attempt continuously and fruitlessly to accomplish some task or achieve some goal that is or seems ultimately hopeless.

🗣Some people are never going to agree with you on this, so it's no use knocking your head against a wall trying to convince everyone.
🗣I feel like I've been knocking my head against the wall trying to understand this math equation.
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📔 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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📔 safe and sound


📋Meaning
  not hurt or injured.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My cat 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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📔 hit the jackpot


📋Meaning 1
To win a large amount of money, especially in a lottery.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Stop wasting your money on lottery tickets—it's not like you'll ever hit the jackpot.

📋Meaning 2
To acquire or come into possession of something very beneficial or perfectly suited for one.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Marcy hit the jackpot with her new job—it's basically her dream job, plus a huge salary.

🗣When it comes to boyfriends, Tina hit the jackpot—Dean is basically the perfect guy.

📋Meaning 3
To find exactly what was sought or desired, especially in a large quantity.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣We needed poster board and hit the jackpot at the art supply store down the street.
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📔 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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📔 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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📔 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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📔 quake like a leaf



📋Meaning
To tremble violently with fear or nervousness.


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🗣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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📔 go to the mattresses


📋Meaning
To enter into or prepare for a lengthy war, battle, or conflict; to adopt a combative or warlike position.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣While Republicans have shown some flexibility over other contentious issues, it looks as though they're ready to go to the mattresses over the issue of gun control.

🗣We'll go to the mattresses if that's what it takes to defend ourselves!
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📔 A blessing in disguise


📋Meaning
  an apparent misfortune that eventually has good results.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣"being omitted from the World Cup squad was a blessing in disguise"
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📔 knock one's socks off


📋Meaning
  to impress someone


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This song will knock your socks off.
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📔 be the butt of someone's jokes


📋Meaning
  to be a person who is joked about or laughed at


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣He was sick of being the butt of their jokes.

🗣No one wants to be the butt of a joke.
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📔 fork in the road



📋Meaning
  Literally, the point at which one road splits or separates off into other roads.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 There's a fork in the road up ahead—which way should I go?

🗣 OK, keep going straight until you reach the fork in the road, then turn right.
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📔 pull your socks up


📋Meaning
  make an effort to improve one's work, performance, or behaviour.


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🗣He's going to have to pull his socks up if he wants to stay in the team.
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📔 go to waste



📋Meaning
•to not be used
•to squander or miss an opportunity


🤔For example ⬇️


🗣  When the Native American Indians killed a buffalo absolutely nothing went to waste.

🗣Our new apartment has a small refrigerator so now we can't buy many groceries and nothing goes to waste.
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📔get down to work

📋To begin being serious about something; to begin attending to business or work at hand.

🗣I believe that everyone is present for the board meeting, so let's get down to work, shall we?
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📔laze about

📋To relax or spend time idly; to do nothing or very little.

🗣I can't wait to go on my vacation and laze about the beach for two weeks!
🗣It's a gorgeous day outside, so you kids get off your butts and quit lazing about!
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📔an/the olive branch

📋Meaning
A symbol, expression, or gesture of peace, reconciliation, truce, etc. Used most commonly in the phrase "hold out/offer (someone) an/the olive branch."

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The conservatives in Congress seem to be offering the olive branch to Democrats on the issue of raising the debt ceiling.

🗣If you find yourself in a spat with a friend, try to be the bigger person and be the one to hold out the olive branch.
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