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01 June 2023 17:30

📔 Hit the Road



📋Meaning
  to leave (especially to go home); to depart on a journey (especially to travel to a place by car).



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I'm sorry but I have to go home—we're hitting the road to Chicago early in the morning.  

🗣 What time are we hitting the road tomorrow?
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31 May 2023 17:31

📔 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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30 May 2023 17:30

📔 Up to one's eyeballs




📋Meaning
  to have a very large amount of something to do or be very busy with something

to emphasize the extreme degree of some undesirable or unwanted thing



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 We've been using our credit cards so much we're now up to our eyes in debt.

🗣 If you don't wash your clothes again this weekend you'll be up to your eyeballs in laundry.
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29 May 2023 17:30

📔 Lost at sea



📋Meaning
  To be confused about something or to feel unsure about what to do.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “I am lost at sea with this new system at work. I just can’t understand it.”
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28 May 2023 17:30

📔 To have sticky fingers



📋Meaning
  To be a thief.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “The manager fired the cashier because he had sticky fingers. He stole more than $200 in a month.”
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27 May 2023 17:31

📔 Ring a bell



📋Meaning
  the idiom means that somebody has mentioned something that sounds familiar to you, perhaps you’ve heard it before. In other words, when someone says something that you believe you’ve heard in the past, alarm bells start ringing and you try to remember how or why that name or place sounds familiar.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “You’ve met my friend Amy Adams, right?”

“Hmmm, I’m not sure, but that name rings a bell. Was she the one who went to Paris last year?”
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26 May 2023 17:30

📔know the ropes

📋Meaning
To know how to do something properly; from novice crew members on sailing ships having to learn what all the ropes were for and how to handle them.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣“You won't have to train the new computer operator; she already knows the ropes.”

🗣He tried hiring more salesmen to push his radio products, but they took too much time to learn the ropes.
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26 May 2023 05:30

📚give the green light


✍🏾Meaning
If you give something the green light, you give permission for it to be done, or allow it to happen.


❗️For example

🔸The government has given the green light to our tree-planting project, so we can go ahead and start organizing things.

🔸As soon as our CEO gives the new product the green light, we'll start planning production.

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25 May 2023 12:36

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24 May 2023 17:31

📔 cut corners



📋Meaning
  do something perfunctorily so as to save time or money.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 "there is always a temptation to cut corners when time is short"
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23 May 2023 17:30

📔 Sail close to the wind




📋Meaning
  To act just within the limits of what’s legal or socially acceptable, to push boundaries.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “They fired their accountant because he sailed too close to the wind.”
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22 May 2023 17:30

📔 To go from rags to riches




📋Meaning
  To go from being poor to having a lot of money.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Actor Jim Carrey went from rags to riches. At one time, he was living in a van, but he continued to work hard and eventually became one of the highest-paid comedians in the world.”
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21 May 2023 17:30

📔 tickle the ivories / ivory




📋Meaning
  play the piano



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 I learned to tickle the ivories from a very young age so I've been dreaming of getting a grand piano for most of my life.

🗣 My grandfather used to tickle the ivories for a living.
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20 May 2023 17:30

📔 go with the flow


📋Meaning
be relaxed and accept a situation, rather than trying to alter or control it.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Just relax and go with the flow!
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19 May 2023 17:31

📔 Blow off steam



📋Meaning
  If you’re feeling angry, stressed or are experiencing some strong feelings and you want to get rid of them so you feel better again, you will blow off steam by doing something such as exercising to get rid of the stress.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “Why is Nick so angry and where did he go?”

“He had a fight with his brother, so he went for a run to blow off steam.”


🗣 "I just needed to walk to blow off steam"
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01 June 2023 05:31

📔 quake like a leaf



📋Meaning
To tremble violently with fear or nervousness.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣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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31 May 2023 05:30

📔 blow (one's) stack


📋Meaning
To become very angry, often quickly.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Oh man, Dad is going to blow his stack when he sees that I wrecked his car!
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30 May 2023 09:26

📔 plastic grin


📋Meaning
A forced, artificial smile; a smile someone wears despite having no feelings of happiness or joy.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣John seemed fine at first glance, but before long I could tell that he was wearing a plastic grin and that something was bothering him.

🗣Look at his big plastic grin—he's such a con man! I sure hope he doesn't win the election.
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29 May 2023 05:30

📔 be in pursuit


📋Meaning
Following or chasing someone or something.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The burglar got away, but I called the police, and now they're in pursuit.
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28 May 2023 08:56

📔 give (someone) the stink eye



📋Meaning
To make a facial expression of unreserved disgust, contempt, disapproval, distrust, or general ill will toward someone.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Some guy across the bar has been giving me the stink eye since we came in. It must be something to do with my outfit.

🗣I must have done something wrong on Friday because the boss gave me the stink eye as soon as I came into work on Monday.
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27 May 2023 05:30

📔 stuffed to the gills



📋Meaning
Completely full; teeming; having no room to spare.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I've got so many meetings and deadlines these days that my schedule is stuffed to the gills!

🗣Her mind was stuffed to the gills with ideas for her new book.

🗣I felt stuffed to the gills after my grandmother's Thanksgiving meal.
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26 May 2023 05:30

📔odd duck

📋Meaning
A rather unusual, strange, or peculiar person.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣His new girlfriend is nice enough, but she's a bit of an odd duck, don't you think?

🗣Jake is a bit of an odd duck, a zealous survivalist who has trained his son in the arts of camouflage, self-defense and living off the grid.

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25 May 2023 17:30

📔 knock one's socks off


📋Meaning
  to impress someone


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣This song will knock your socks off.
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25 May 2023 09:50

📔 pitch a fit


📋Meaning
To become very or unreasonably angry or upset; to have an outburst of rage, frustration, or ill temper.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My mom's going to pitch a fit when she sees what happened to the car!

🗣I was so embarrassed when Danny started pitching a fit in the grocery store.
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24 May 2023 05:30

📔 with all (one's) might


📋Meaning
Utilizing all of one's power and strength to do something.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I pulled at the rope with all my might, but we still lost the tug-of-war.

🗣I swear, your dog pulls at these toys with all his might. He'll drag us through the yard one day!
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23 May 2023 11:48

📔 the outside world



📋Meaning
The people, culture, ideas, or experiences beyond an enclosed, sheltered, or remote place, situation or environment.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Being raised out on the farm meant Jacob had little knowledge of the outside world.

🗣Anthropologists came upon an indigenous society that had had no previous contact with the outside world.
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22 May 2023 05:30

📔 by stealth


📋Meaning
In an undetected way; silently and secretly.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣The cat burglar entered the office by stealth, and the only evidence he was there was the missing document.
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21 May 2023 05:31

📔 snow on the mountain



📋Meaning
Silver, grey, or white hair on one's head, as due to aging.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Sure, there's a bit of snow on the mountain, but I still lead as adventurous a life as I ever have!
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20 May 2023 05:30

📔 take ill



📋Meaning
To be or become sick or unwell.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I heard your sister has taken ill recently. I hope that it isn't anything too serious?
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18 May 2023 17:31

📔 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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