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10 February 2024 18:27
📔the knacker's yard
📋A state of ruin or failure due to having become useless or obsolete. Refers to a slaughterhouse for old or injured horses.
🗣Once a booming industry before the age of the Internet, home video rental has largely ended up in the knacker's yard these days.
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08 February 2024 08:10
📔 Open a can of worms
📋Meaning
a situation or issue that becomes even more complicated as you try to deal with it or solve the problem.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Commenting on my wife's appearance always opens a can of worms so I never say anything anymore.
🗣 The investigation of donations made to the winning candidate during the election has really opened a can of worms.
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07 February 2024 09:33
📔 look down on someone
📋Meaning
to see something or someone as inferior
to disapprove of someone or something
✍Note
This is also frequently used as look down one’s nose at someone / something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I hate to say this but my father looks down on anyone who doesn’t come from a wealthy background.
🗣 Don’t look down on these jeans just because they don’t have a designer label on them. If you like them, buy them.
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06 February 2024 10:34
📔 As cool as a cucumber
📋Meaning
calm and relaxed (especially in a difficult or stressful situation).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My boss is as cool as a cucumber even when he speaks in front of hundreds of people.
🗣 Even though she'd just lost her job, she came to the party as cool as a cucumber.
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05 February 2024 07:18
📔 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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04 February 2024 10:35
📔 Sleep like a log
📋Meaning
to sleep very soundly (deeply) — so well that noises don't even wake you up.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My husband slept like a log the entire flight but I didn't even get five minutes of sleep.
🗣 Take this pill at bedtime and you'll sleep like a log tonight.
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03 February 2024 07:20
📔 You rock!
📋Meaning
To say someone or something rocks means that you think that person or thing is great, or awesome, or cool.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Hey, thanks for moving my sofa on Saturday. You rock!
🗣 “How was your event last night?” “Excellent! It rocked!”
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01 February 2024 19:34
📔on (one's) tod
📋Without or not near to anyone else; on one's own; all alone. A shortening of the Cockney rhyming slang "on one's Tod Sloan," referring to a once-famous American horse jockey who fell into disrepute in the early 20th century and died penniless and alone. Primarily heard in UK.
🗣To be quite honest, after a hectic week of work, I much prefer having a drink on my tod than being around a bunch of people.
🗣Mary's been on her tod ever since Rupert broke up with her last week.
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31 January 2024 21:48
📔 pull a prank (on someone)
📋Meaning
To carry out a trick, deception, or practical joke (against someone).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣It turns out that the supposed alien visitors that people had been seeing were just a bunch of teenagers pulling a prank on the town.
🗣I've got a great plan to pull a prank on the school for April Fools' Day.
🗣The fake article had been in print in the renowned scientific journal for more than a week before its author revealed that he had pulled a prank when he decided to submit it.
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30 January 2024 19:50
📔be no slouch
📋Meaning
To be very hardworking, enthusiastic, and/or skillful.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Tom might not be the friendliest coworker in the world, but he's no slouch when it comes to running the company's IT systems.
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29 January 2024 21:41
💠 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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28 January 2024 19:19
📔 boots and all
📋Meaning
With maximum effort or enthusiasm; completely and without restraint. Primarily heard in Australia, New Zealand.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣If we set about digging that trench boots and all, then we should be finished before lunchtime.
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27 January 2024 21:54
📔 be tied (up) in knots
📋Meaning
To be confused, anxious, worried, and/or upset (about something).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I've been tied up in knots trying to come up with a good topic for my term paper, but I just can't think of anything!
🗣James is tied in knots over how to break up with Danielle, but I think he needs to bite the bullet and just do it.
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10 February 2024 09:21
📔 Hold your horses
📋Meaning
1) slow down;
2) wait a moment;
3) be patient.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Please hold your horses while you drive through this neighborhood—there are many children outside playing.
🗣 I'm sorry but you're going to have to hold your horses, there are many people in line ahead of you and we are working as fast as we can.
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08 February 2024 20:46
📔 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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07 February 2024 20:49
💠 the half of it
✍🏾 A portion of something, typically implied to be the most important or significant part. (Often used in the negative.)
Yes, the company is losing money, but that's only the half of it: if we don't show some improved sales soon, the bank will cut our credit line, too!
A: "I heard the meeting went pretty poorly." B: "That isn't the half of it. Now the boss wants to do a full review of my employment, so I might even lose my job!"
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06 February 2024 19:30
📔 born in the purple
📋Meaning
Born into royalty. Purple is a color traditionally associated with royalty.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Did you see pictures of the latest addition to the royal family? What a sweet little princess born in the purple!
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05 February 2024 20:14
💠 hot desking
✍🏾 The act or practice of sharing desks or workstations between employees in an office so as to cut down on the amount of office space required.
I've never worked in a company that did hot desking before; while it was strange not having my own desk at first, with everything done on laptops you barely notice it after a while!
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04 February 2024 19:57
📔in (one's) heyday
📋In, at, or during the period of one's greatest success, power, vigor, etc.
🗣In my heyday as a stock broker, I was making millions of dollars each year, but when the economy crashed, I lost nearly everything.
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03 February 2024 18:50
📔 scare story
📋Meaning
A story or rumor that makes something seem more serious, dreadful, or terrifying than it really is.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Every year around Halloween, there's some scare story in the news about razor blades being found in candy.
🗣You just can't listen to all the scare stories people love to spread or you'd end up being afraid of everything!
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01 February 2024 09:14
📔 Keep your head above water
📋Meaning
1) to have just enough to live or survive (especially having enough money); 2) to manage to do all of your work.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 She keeping her head above water right now but if she doesn't find another job soon she'll have to move back home to her parents' house.
🗣 I've been keeping my head above water for three months working part-time but my holiday job will be ending soon and I'm not sure what I will do.
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31 January 2024 08:11
📔 waste one’s breath
📋Meaning
to say something that will probably be ignored or not have any effect
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 You could tell her that her hairstyle looks ridiculous but you’d just be wasting your breath.
🗣 I don’t waste my breath asking my kids to get off the Internet—instead I just disconnect it each night at 8 PM.
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30 January 2024 13:46
📔 In the Doghouse
📋Meaning
in trouble or in a situation where someone is upset or angry with you for some reason.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I'm in the doghouse with my wife again for staying out until 3 AM last night with my buddies and not calling to say I'd be late.
🗣 I got tired of being in the doghouse with my ex-girlfriend all the time. Honestly, I never knew why she was so upset half of the time.
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29 January 2024 10:49
📔 On thin ice
📋Meaning
1 ) in a dangerous position where you could fall or have an unfavorable result;
2) in a risky or uncertain situation.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 If you keep charging things you can't afford on your credit cards you'll be treading on thin ice in a very short period of time.
🗣 I'm on thin ice with my teacher because I haven't turned in my homework three times this week.
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28 January 2024 10:07
📔 warts and all
📋Meaning
including bad qualities, habits, etc.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 My son is a slob but I love him, warts and all.
🗣 The key to a successful marriage is accepting your spouse, warts and all.
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27 January 2024 09:20
📔 leave someone at the alter
📋Meaning
to abandon someone just before the marriage is supposed to happen.
✍Note
Couples who get married in a church stand in front of a structure called the 'alter'.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 What a jerk! I cannot believe he left her at the alter. How humiliating!
🗣 It's better for someone to leave you at the altar then to be in a miserable marriage.
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25 January 2024 19:46
📔 bump heads with
📋Meaning
To clash with another person on a particular issue.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Monica and I are always bumping heads with each other about how to go about these reports because she wants to start writing, while I think we should research first.
🗣I just know I'm going to have to bump heads with Ted again about this budget—we always want to cut different things.
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