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01 📔 backslider
📋Meaning
One who reverts or relapses into bad habits, unethical or immoral behavior, or criminal activity.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣We've tried to help her quit smoking, but she's a bit of a backslider.
🗣Jimmy's too much of a backslider to stay true to the practices of the church.
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02 📔 Storm in a teacup (UK idiom)
📋Meaning
A small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 The whole controversy turned out to be a storm in a teacup.
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03 📔 bad omen
📋Meaning
A sign, either real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣It was a bad omen when my girlfriend broke up with me the day before my final exams.
🗣All of the recent natural disasters are a bad omen for the future of the planet.
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04 📔 Sitting on the fence
📋Meaning
a person's lack of decisiveness, neutrality or hesitance to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition, or inability to decide due to lack of courage.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “The councilman is afraid he'll lose votes if he takes sides on the zoning issue, but he can't sit on the fence forever.”
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05 📔 banker's hours
📋Meaning
A limited work schedule (as banks were once known for having short work days and being closed on holidays and weekends).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣You won't be able to reach her on a Saturday—she keeps banker's hours.
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06 📔 raise the roof
📋Meaning
make or cause someone else to make a great deal of noise, especially through cheering.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "when I finally scored the fans raised the roof"
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07 📔 case of the dropsy
📋Meaning
A fictitious "condition" characterized by continually dropping things from one's hands. It is a play on the term "dropsy," which was formerly used to denote the condition now known as edema (or oedema).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I've broken four or five plates since I started work. I guess I've got a bad case of the dropsy today.
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09 📔 the big picture
📋Meaning
the situation as a whole.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "he's so involved in the minutiae that he often overlooks the big picture"
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10 📔 crushing blow
📋Meaning
A major defeat or setback that is devastating to the goals of a person, group, or organization.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The team's loss last Sunday was a crushing blow to their chances for a championship.
🗣Failing that test was a crushing blow to my hopes for an honors degree.
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11 📔 living on the edge
📋Meaning
To have an adventurous or perilous lifestyle; to behave in a manner which creates risks for oneself.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Despite the apparent respectability, he was a man who liked to live on the edge.
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12 📔 cushy job
📋Meaning
A job that is easy, stress-free, and/or very well paid.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Since I got this cushy job managing a toy store, I've gotten to sit around playing with toys all day.
🗣Since Sarah got that cushy job with the bank, she has been driving a sports car and is buying a second home!
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13 📔 a cut above the rest
📋Meaning
Better in quality than most others.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣This new restaurant is a cut above the rest.
🗣Trust me, Johannes is a cut above the rest. If you want the best legal advice money can buy, he's your man.
🗣An entrant's essay must be a cut above the rest for it to win our top prize.
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14 📔 the elephant in the room
📋Meaning
a major problem or controversial issue which is obviously present but is avoided as a subject for discussion.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "they've steadfastly ignored the elephant in the room: the ever-growing debt burden on graduates"
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15 📔 a cut above the rest
📋Meaning
Better in quality than most others.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣This new restaurant is a cut above the rest.
🗣Trust me, Johannes is a cut above the rest. If you want the best legal advice money can buy, he's your man.
🗣An entrant's essay must be a cut above the rest for it to win our top prize.
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16 📔 The sky is the limit
📋Meaning
If you say the sky is the limit, you mean that there is nothing to prevent someone or something from being very successful.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 They have found that, in terms of both salary and career success, the sky is the limit.
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17 📔 a cut below
📋Meaning
Of lower quality than or inferior to someone or something else, especially that of the expected norm.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣This waiter is really a cut below what I would expect from this restaurant.
🗣Your essay was a cut below, honestly. That's why it didn't win the contest.
🗣I haven't been that impressed with any of the candidates for the sales position—they've just been a cut below.
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18 📔 Time flies
📋Meaning
used to observe that time seems to pass very quickly.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "people say time flies when you're having fun"
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19 📔 freak of nature
📋Meaning
Something or someone that is unusual, rare, or abnormal in some way; beyond or outside the natural world.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣The goat they have at the circus sideshow is a real freak of nature, it was born with two heads!
🗣He can lift over 500 pounds in the gym, he's like some freak of nature.
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20 📔 Button your lips
📋Meaning
to not talk about something
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Button your lip. He's coming toward us. Don't tell him what I said, please.
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22 📔 a free bit of advice
📋Meaning
A suggestion, opinion, or piece of advice that was unrequested or unsolicited by the recipient.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Allow me to give you a free bit of advice, my friend: don't say something you'll end up regretting later.
🗣I know you're worried about your kids, but here's a free bit of advice—you can't protect them from every little thing.
🗣Hey, here's a free bit of advice for you during your internship—always be kind and polite. People remember if you treat them well.
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23 📔 The grass is greener on the other side
📋Meaning
other people always seem to be in a better situation than you, although they may not be
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 Our bookkeeper always imagined that the grass is greener on the other side. She quit her job to pursue a legal education.
🗣 Bob always thinks the grass is greener elsewhere, which accounts for his constant job changes.
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24 📔 funny feeling
📋Meaning
An intuition or premonition about something; a sense of foreknowledge about a situation, condition, or set of circumstances.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I have a funny feeling that this meeting isn't going to end in our favor.
🗣 I have this funny feeling that I've met this person before.
🗣I'm worried about our relationship. I got this funny feeling when I was talking to her last night.
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25 📔 Mad as a hatter (UK idiom)
📋Meaning
Completely mad.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I know some of my students think I'm as mad as a hatter because of my weird methods.
🗣 I'll be mad as a hatter if I have to deal with these screaming toddlers for much longer.
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26 📔 a good voice to beg bacon
📋Meaning
Used to mock someone's voice as being strange, unpleasant, or inadequate (e.g., for singing). Bacon, being a dietary staple in older times, was often used as a metaphor for financial stability or wealth; having the voice of one who must "beg bacon," then, means having a harsh voice, like someone who is undernourished.
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🗣Did you hear the way that singer was screeching last night? I'm glad we didn't stay too long, he had a good voice to beg bacon.
🗣I love Alice, but, my goodness, the girl has a good voice to beg bacon! Please do not let her sign up for the talent show.
🗣I like to sing, but only in the shower—I know I have a good voice to beg bacon.
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27 📔 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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29 📔 harrowing experience
📋Meaning
An experience that is frightening, chilling, or disturbing, either due to an implied or actual element of danger, or from being physically or emotionally unpleasant.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣With so much traffic, cycling in this city can be a harrowing experience.
🗣Walking through that graveyard last night was quite the harrowing experience.
🗣The film is very good, but it's a bit of a harrowing experience; it doesn't shy away from intense subject matter.
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30 📔 as high as a kite
📋Meaning
intoxicated with drugs or alcohol.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 I tried to talk to her after the party, but she was as high as a kite.
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31 📔 against the collar
📋Meaning
Difficult, exhausting, or problematic. The phrase originates from the collar on a horse's harness, which tightens on the horse's neck when it travels uphill. Primarily heard in UK.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I was doing fine in the marathon, but it was a bit against the collar for the last couple miles.
🗣I don't think I have time to meet you today. Work has been a bit against the collar recently.
🗣against the collar recently.Getting this late-breaking story finished in time for tomorrow's newspaper was somewhat against the collar, but it's done now, thankfully.
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32 📔 picturesque
📋Meaning
visually attractive, especially in a quaint or pretty style.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 the picturesque covered bridges of New England
🗣 the picturesque narrow street s of the old city.
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33 📔 alarm bell
📋Meaning
A sudden warning or intimation of danger, risk, or ill fortune. (Often pluralized.)
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Alarm bells were going off in my head when I saw the panicked expression on her face.
🗣The new report set alarm bells ringing among the board members because it forecasts a large decrease in enrollment.
🗣A: "Her new boyfriend's anger management issues don't seem to be setting off an alarm bell for her." B: "Yikes, the situation is worse than I thought."
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34 📔 through thick and thin
📋Meaning
under all circumstances, no matter how difficult.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "they stuck together through thick and thin"
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35 📔 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
📋Meaning
proverb Compensation or retribution that is (or should be) of an equal amount or degree to the injury or offense that was originally dealt. The saying comes from various passages in the Bible, including in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I cannot be placated by paltry excuses of reparation! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth—this I demand from all who have wronged me.
🗣Some countries have laws that punish crimes with an eye for an eye, most often that killing someone will result in one's death.
🗣The world would be a safer place if more people in power would discourage the practice of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
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36 📔 Packed like sardines
📋Meaning
What do you see when you open up a can of sardines? Yes, the fish crammed inside the can. So packed like sardines describes a place or situation that’s very crowded with people (or animals)—for example, a concert hall or sports event.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Were you at the football game last night? The stadium was packed like sardines.”
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37 📔 fox guarding the henhouse
📋Meaning
A person likely to exploit the information or resources that they have been charged to protect or control.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣My sister is going to put her ex-convict brother-in-law in charge of her business, and I'm worried he'll be like a fox guarding the henhouse.
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38 📔 A bad apple
📋Meaning
Imagine a basket of apples with one rotten apple inside. This picture will help you remember that a bad apple is someone who creates problems or trouble, or is a bad influence on the other people in a group.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “Instead of focusing on college, he spends his time hanging out with bad apples.”
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39 📔 Buy a lemon
📋Meaning
To buy a lemon means to buy something (usually a motor vehicle) that doesn’t work well and is therefore worthless.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “The car looked so new and shiny I had no way of knowing I was buying a lemon.”
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40 📔 fresh legs
📋Meaning
In sports, one or more substitute players who have not yet participated in a given game or match, thus having more energy than the players they are replacing.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣Their offense is completely wearing out our defense—it's time to get some fresh legs on the field!
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📔 backslider
📋Meaning
One who reverts or relapses into bad habits, unethical or immoral behavior, or criminal activity.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣We've tried to help her quit smoking, but she's a bit of a backslider.
🗣Jimmy's too much of a backslider to stay true to the practices of the church.
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📔 Storm in a teacup (UK idiom)
📋Meaning
A small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.
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🗣 The whole controversy turned out to be a storm in a teacup.
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📔 bad omen
📋Meaning
A sign, either real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣It was a bad omen when my girlfriend broke up with me the day before my final exams.
🗣All of the recent natural disasters are a bad omen for the future of the planet.
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📔 Sitting on the fence
📋Meaning
a person's lack of decisiveness, neutrality or hesitance to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition, or inability to decide due to lack of courage.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 “The councilman is afraid he'll lose votes if he takes sides on the zoning issue, but he can't sit on the fence forever.”
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📔 banker's hours
📋Meaning
A limited work schedule (as banks were once known for having short work days and being closed on holidays and weekends).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣You won't be able to reach her on a Saturday—she keeps banker's hours.
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📔 raise the roof
📋Meaning
make or cause someone else to make a great deal of noise, especially through cheering.
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣 "when I finally scored the fans raised the roof"
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📔 case of the dropsy
📋Meaning
A fictitious "condition" characterized by continually dropping things from one's hands. It is a play on the term "dropsy," which was formerly used to denote the condition now known as edema (or oedema).
🤔For example ⬇️
🗣I've broken four or five plates since I started work. I guess I've got a bad case of the dropsy today.
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📔 the big picture
📋Meaning
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📔 crushing blow
📋Meaning
A major defeat or setback that is devastating to the goals of a person, group, or organization.
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🗣Failing that test was a crushing blow to my hopes for an honors degree.
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