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Idiom of the Day
📚down in the dumps | down in the mouth
✍🏾Meaning
If you're down in the dumps, or down in the mouth, you're feeling sad.
❕For example
🔺I've been feeling down in the dumps ever since I lost my job.
🔺What's wrong with Mandy? She's been looking a bit down in the mouth all day.
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💠josh
✍🏾Meaning
to tease someone, usually in a friendly way
❕For example
🔺Mick loves to josh people, but he always does it in the right way. He doesn't make fun of people, or make them feel stupid, like some people do when they're fooling around.
🔺Gary told everyone our company was going out of business and we'd all lose our jobs. It was only when Libby started crying that he said, "I was just joshin' you all. Ha! Ha! Ha!" Mick punched him hard in the stomach.
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📚drag your feet | drag your heels
✍🏾Meaning
If you drag your feet, or drag your heels, you do something slowly because you don't really want to do it.
❕For example
🔺The government promised to provide universal health care, but now it's dragging its feet over the issue.
🔺We expected the company to drag its heels when it came to paying compensation to the injured workers, but now it doesn't want to pay anything!
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Slang of the Day
💠jugs
American English vulgar!!
✍🏾Meaning
a woman's breasts
❕For example
🔺While we were walking past all the girls in their bikinis, Jo turned to me and whispered, "Look at all these beautiful jugs!"
🔺We were in a bar watching some topless girls dancing on stage when Jo leaned over and said, "Those jugs can't be real. She must have silicon implants in them."
Variety
This is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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📚dressed (up) to the nines
INFORMAL
✍🏾Meaning
If you are dressed to the nines, or dressed up to the nines, you are wearing very smart clothes for a special occasion.
❕For example
🔺Have you seen Harry? He's dressed to the nines and he looks amazing.
🔺Everyone was dressed up to the nines for the Academy Awards, with the men in tuxedos and the women in evening gowns.
Origin: This phrase is derived from the earlier idiom "to the nines" which was used to indicate that something was of the highest standard. The earlier idiom only survives today as part of the phrase "dressed to the nines"
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📚the die is cast
✍🏾Meaning
We can say the die is cast after a decision has been made that will strongly affect a situation, and it can't be reversed.
❕For example
🔺As soon as he pulled out his gun, the die was cast and he was sure to be killed by the police.
🔺Bill knew the die was cast the first time he took the drug. He was going to be an addict.
Origin: Probably metaphorical, from the fact that when a die (singular form of "dice") is cast (or thrown) during a board game, the resulting move on the board cannot be reversed.
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Slang of the Day
💠jumpy
✍🏾Meaning
anxious, uneasy, on edge
❕For example
🔺Customs officials get suspicious if air passengers seem jumpy and nervous when their luggage is being checked.
🔺Everyone in the city was jumpy after the terrorists bombed the railway station.
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💠jump
✍🏾Meaning
to leave without permission, to move illegally
❕For example
🔺Lenny is on the run from the police because he jumped bail instead of going to court.
🔺I got a traffic fine in the mail today. I was caught jumping a red light by one of those hidden cameras.
Note:
This meaning of "jump" is found in a series of collocations and idioms such as "jump bail" and "jump the gun", and should only be used as part of one of these.
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📚drop a bombshell
✍🏾Meaning
If you drop a bombshell, you announce some shocking news.
❕For example
🔺The Liverpool football club dropped a bombshell when they announced that they had sacked their manager.
🔺Yesterday our boss dropped a real bombshell. He told us the company had been sold and half of us would lose our jobs.
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💠juicy
✍🏾Meaning
very interesting in a scandalous or lurid way
❕For example
🔺I love reading Lucy's blog about Hollywood movie stars. It's full of juicy gossip about the private lives of all the biggest stars.
🔺Harry writes a newspaper column about juicy scandals in Washington. There's corruption and crime and drugs and sex, and it's great fun to read, of course.
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📚(have) egg on your face
INFORMAL
✍🏾Meaning
You will have egg on your face if you've said or done something wrong, and it's made you feel embarrassed or stupid.
❕For example
🔺Stan had egg on his face after saying he could easily do fifty push-ups, and then giving up after doing just twenty.
🔺The police force had egg on its face because they arrested and beat up an innocent guy who had the same name as a suspect they were looking for.
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💠kinky
✍🏾Meaning
playfully erotic, sexually eccentric
❕For example
🔺After many years of marriage, George and Laura tried to spice up their sex lives by trying something a little kinky in the bedroom.
🔺Justine gave Britney some kinky underwear for her birthday.
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📚an eye-opener
✍🏾Meaning
You can say something's an eye-opener if it's made you realize something you hadn't been aware of before.
❕For example
🔺Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" was a real eye-opener for me. I hadn't really understood how serious global warming was until I saw it.
🔺Cathy said her trip to Thailand was quite an eye-opener for her. She'd never realized before how beautiful Thailand was, or how friendly the people were.
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💠kisser
✍🏾Meaning
the mouth
❕For example
🔺Watch what you say, pal, or you'll get a smack in the kisser.
🔺Diego tried to catch the ball but he missed and it hit him right on the kisser.
Note:
usually used with the definite article "the"
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📚ear to the ground
INFORMAL
✍🏾Meaning
If you have your ear to the ground, you know what's really going on in a situation.
❕For example
🔺If we want to market to teenagers, we need someone with an ear to the ground who really knows what they want these days.
🔺I've got this great stockbroker who's got his ear to the ground and always knows when to buy or sell stocks.
Origin: Possibly related to the fact that Native Americans put an ear to the ground and listen in order to find out if there are animals or other people moving in the distance.
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💠knock off (1)
✍🏾Meaning
to finish work for the day, to stop working
❕For example
🔺I usually start work at eight-thirty and knock off around five.
🔺There's nothing else we can do today, so let's knock off and go down the pub.
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📚easy come, easy go
INFORMAL
✍🏾Meaning
You can say "easy come, easy go" to express the idea that if something comes to someone easily, such as money they get without working hard for it, they can lose it just as easily and it won't matter to them much.
❕For example
🔺Harry's very easy-going, especially when it comes to money. It's easy come, easy go, as far as he's concerned.
🔺The share market's been falling recently, and I've lost a fair bit of money, but it's easy come, easy go, really, because it's just money I've earned from shares in the past.
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📚easier said than done
✍🏾Meaning
You say something is easier said than done when it looks easy to do, but in fact it's quite difficult to do.
❕For example
🔺Opening a branch office in China is easier said than done because of all the government regulations.
🔺I warn my students that becoming a successful artist in the real world is much easier said than done.
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