Idioms&Phrases
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🗣: He has lost his job recently, he is barely making ends meet.
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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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📔day to day
📋Meaning
If something happens day to day, it's part of your usual daily routine.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣While you're away you'll have to pay for all your day-to-day expenses yourself, except for the hotel.
🗣She can deal with the small problems she faces day to day, but if there's a major crisis she usually panics.
❕This idiom is written as "day-to-day" if it's used as an adjective in front of a noun.
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📔lash out ⚖️
Synonym: hit out
📖Meaning
to verbally or physically attack someone or something
🤓For example ⤵️
🗣: An angry politician lashed out in parliament today and tried to hit one of his colleagues.
🗣:I told my girlfriend I thought her new hairstyle wasn't as nice as her old one, and she lashed out and said I was ignorant and didn't know anything about style or fashion.
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📔Highways and byways
📋Meaning
Both major and minor or lesser-traveled roads. (Often used figuratively to describe paths taken in life.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I'm taking the summer to travel across the Midwest, driving through highways and byways to find all sorts of unique places.
🗣By highways and byways, he ended up making a life for himself in a small village in India.
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During his school years, Bill Gates changed his high school's program codes so he was placed in class with mostly female students.
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Get the best of someone — to overwhelm, take control, or gain an advantage over someone:
Don't let him get the best of you — just ignore him!
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Happy Ramadan to all of you guys! Let's Fulfill the fourth Pillar of Islam among five
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📔burn your bridges | burn your boats
📋Meaning
You have burned your bridges, or burned your boats, if you were in a situation and you then left it after doing something that made it impossible to go back there.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I knew I'd be burning my boats if I dropped out of school, but I didn't care because I was determined to be a photographer.
🗣If you insult the boss when you leave, you'll be burning your bridges and you'll never be able to go back to work there again.
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📔lay (oneself) out
📋To put in a great deal of effort; to inconvenience oneself or go through a lot of trouble.
🗣I don't know why I always lay myself out to impress your parents—they never appreciate what I do anyway.
🗣Your brother and sister really laid themselves out to make your party special, so it would be nice if you showed a little appreciation.
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📔 in deep
✍🏾Meaning
If someone is "in deep", they are deeply involved in a situation.
❕For example
🗣Candy knew that she was in deep when she realised she was spending more time in Steven's apartment than she was in her own.
🗣 Before I knew it, I was in deep. I'd already invested fifty thousand dollars in the project, and I was thinking of investing even more.
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📔a chip off the old block
✍🏾Meaning
Someone can be described as a chip off the old block if they are very similar in character to one of their parents, usually their father.
❗️For example
🗣Everyone says I'm a chip off the old block, but I think I'm very different to my dad.
🗣Jenny's a real chip off the old block. She must have been very close to her father when she was young.
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📔from now on
📋Meaning
If you do something "from now on", you do it from now until some unknown time in the future.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣From now on you can wear casual clothes to work every Friday.
🗣I was lucky to escape from the accident with just a few minor injuries, so from now on I'm going to be much more careful when I drive.
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📔 freak
✍🏾Meaning
a strange person
❕For example
🗣There were a lot of weird-looking freaks at the music festival. Some even had green or purple hair!
🗣 My cousin Dave looked like a real freak when he was a teenager, but he looks totally normal now.
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📔labour of love | labor of love
📋Meaning
A labour of love is work that's done for pleasure or for someone's benefit rather than for money.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Bill would never waste his time on a labor of love. He's only interested in making money.
🗣Hiroko's website was a labour of love that he made so that people could learn about jazz and blues music.
✏️Note
"Labour" is the British spelling and "labor" is the American spelling.
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📔last chance (for/at/to do something)
📋The last or final opportunity to get, have, do, or achieve something.
🗣Hurry and book your flights today—this is your last chance for the cheapest tickets in town!
🗣I'm giving you one last chance to surrender.
🗣:This fight is my last chance at a championship boxing title.
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📔(your) hands are tied
📋Meaning
You can say your hands are tied if you're prevented from doing something that you'd normally have the power or the authority to do.
For example:📝
🗣The president says he'd like to spend more on schools in poor districts, but says his hands are tied by what he calls "budgetary restrictions".
🗣:I'd really like to give you the contract, Mr Ali , but my hands are tied because of those laws on giving contracts to people with criminal records.
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Good wishes to Navruz
May your pure heart be your companion!
I wish you new joys,
May your heart be full of joy and dreams !!!
Happy NAVRUZ holiday!
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📔the lady of the house
📋A woman who looks after and runs the house; the matriarch of a family or household.
🗣:I'm afraid you'll have to ask the lady of the house, as she's the one who makes those sorts of decisions around here.
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📔make yourself at home
✍🏾Meaning
If you make yourself at home, you relax and feel comfortable in someone else's home.
❗️For example
💬:When we arrived at my apartment, I showed my guests the sofa and said, "Make yourself at home."
💬:Bill certainly knows how to make himself at home. Within five minutes of arriving he'd turned on my TV and helped himself to a beer from my fridge.
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📔 iron out ⚖️Synonym: sort out
📖Meaning
If you iron out the last details of a deal, you sort out the final problems or issues.
🤓For example ⤵️
💬:If we have any differences or issues, we'll have to iron them out before we sign a deal.
💬: Ronaldo's manager and the club are ironing out a couple of final issues, but they should have everything sorted out soon.
✏️Note
Nouns often used as objects with iron out: differences, disagreements, issues, problems, hitches, misunderstandings.
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📔on a whim
📋Meaning
Based on a sudden, impulsive urge, desire, or idea; without careful planning or because of a capricious inclination.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣On a whim, we drove to the beach for the weekend.
🗣Major governmental policies cannot be decided on a whim; they have to be carefully and rationally thought through.
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📔a ray of sunshine
✍🏾Meaning
Something is a ray of sunshine if it brings happiness to someone.
❗️For example
🗣The birth of Debra's first grandchild less than a year after her husband died came as a much-needed ray of sunshine in her life.
🗣After years of struggling to get established as a writer, the publication of her first short story was a ray of sunshine for Ruth.
✏️Note
This idiom is most often used when talking about something that has brought happiness to someone who's been having trouble in their life.
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I congratulate all the girls and women on such a beautiful day.
May affection and attention accompany with you all the time in your life
Happy 8th March🥳🥳🥳
Every Home, Every Heart, Every Feeling,
Every Moment Of happiness is incomplete without you
Only you can complete this world...
W-wonderful,
O-outstanding,
M-marvellous,
A-amazing,
N-nice!
Today you deserve our most beautiful flowers and poetry! Happy women and girls' day
📔 a slap on the wrist
✍🏾Meaning
If someone gives you a slap on the wrist, they give you a mild punishment for making a mistake or doing something wrong.
❗️For example
🗣The tribunal didn't think it was a serious offence, so they just gave him a slap on the wrist. All he got was a warning.
🗣Some of our players got a slap on the wrist for getting to the training session late. The coach warned them not to be late again and then made them do twenty push-ups.
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📔bark up the wrong tree
📋Meaning
If you're barking up the wrong tree, you're looking for something in the wrong place or going about something in the wrong way
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The police think the drugs are being brought in by the mafia, but they're barking up the wrong tree. They should be looking much closer to home.
🗣He's barking up the wrong tree if he is interested in Jane. Doesn't he know she's married?
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📔knick-knack
📋A trinket or bauble, typically one that is small and ornamental
🗣I loved visiting my grandfather when I was a child and examining all the various knick-knacks he'd collected around the house.
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📔paint the town red
📋Meaning
If you paint the town red, you visit bars, nightclubs and other nightspots to have a good time.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣It's my's birthday today so I'm going out with some friends tonight to paint the town red.
🗣Going out and painting the town red is great fun, but you can't do it every night.
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📔beat it
✍🏾Meaning
go away
❕For example
🗣Some kids were smoking in the carpark, but when one of them saw a teacher coming they grabbed their stuff and beat it.
🗣When Peter came back from the bathroom, some guy was talking to Leanne. Peter said, "Beat it, pal! She's with me."
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📔don't hand me that story
📋Meaning
Don't tell me that lie; don't try to pass that off as the truth; don't tell me that familiar story.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I want to know why you're so late coming home. And don't hand me that story about wanting to catch up with friends!
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📔keep a sharp lookout (for something or someone)
📋To remain vigilant or carefully watchful (for something or someone).
🗣Keep a sharp lookout for the health inspector, we heard he'll be doing a surprise inspection someday soon.
🗣They should be arriving any minute, so keep a sharp lookout.Keep a sharp lookout for a Christmas present we could give your mother.
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📔on a lark
📋On a whim or fancy; for fun or as a joke.
🗣On a lark, we all decided to ditch our Friday classes at university and drive to Tashkent City for the weekend.
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📔cross that bridge when we come to it
📋Meaning
You can say "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" if someone mentions a problem that might occur in the future, but you want them to think about what's happening now instead.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Jenny worries too much about things that might happen in the future, so people are always saying "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it" to her.
🗣Martin asked what we'd do if our new company couldn't find good staff when we needed to expand, and I said we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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📔change your tune
✍🏾Meaning
If you change your tune, you change your opinion about something or your attitude towards someone.
❗️For example
🗣At first Timur was against selling the rights to his book, but he changed his tune when he realized how much money he could make.
🗣Kamila was quite rude to me at first, but she changed her tune when someone mentioned how wealthy I was.
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📔grease someone's palm
📋Meaning
If you grease someone's palm, you pay them a bribe
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The only way to get a government contract around here is to grease someone's palm.
🗣If you want to get out of jail, grease the warden's palm and the guards will let you escape.
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📔Idiom:
To bring out:
🤔Means:
📌To show or introduce (to the public) (S); to make available (S)
✅Examples:
🗣Most automobile companies bring out new models each year.
🗣My mother brought some snacks out for my friends and me to have.
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