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🔺Our neighbours were busted for possessing marijuana and speed pills after the cops raided their house last night.
🔺The cops raided a bar in Washington and the president's daughter was busted for under-age drinking. She was let off with a warning. ━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: to quickly read something like a list or a speech in order to check the details or look for mistakes
❕For example:
run through sth 🔺Run through the list and see if you can find anyone called Xavier on it.
run through sth with sb 🔺After I've written the speech, would you mind running through it with me and letting me know if you spot any problems. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Phrasal_Verb_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: an obnoxious person who talks too much and too loudly
❕For example:
🔺When Charlie drinks alcohol, he turns into a boring, bragging loudmouth. No wonder he never gets invited to dinner parties.
🔺Takahiro wondered if all Americans were overweight loudmouths, or just the ones who visited Japan.
Note: a common adjective derived form this word is "loudmouthed", as in "A loudmouthed fan yelled out when Tiger was hitting his shot." ━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
Meaning: If you're skating on thin ice, you're doing something risky, or you're in a situation that could quickly become dangerous.
❕For example:
🔺Don't you think you'll be skating on thin ice if you go to the U.S. without getting health insurance? Medical care is incredibly expensive there.
🔺Kenny's skating on thin ice. He's already on parole, and yet he's still driving around without a licence.
➕Origin: Probably related to the fact that skating on an ice-covered lake can be very dangerous if the ice is thin in places. It could easily break under the weight of a person, and the person could fall into the ice-cold water and drown. ━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Possible interpretation: There is money to be made in dirt and dirty jobs. For example, many people have made fortunes by processing rubbish or waste materials.
Origin: This saying originated in England in or before the 19th century. The 17th-century book "A collection of English proverbs" (Rev. John Ray) includes a similar idea: "Muck and money go together."
muck (noun): dirt; rubbish brass (noun): a metal made from copper and zinc; money (British slang) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Saying_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: If a person or a company is in the red, their debts are greater than their assets.
❕For example:
🔺Even if we make a profit this year, we owe so much money that we'll probably still be in the red.
🔺I don't like being in the red, so I don't borrow money.
➕Note: This comes from the practice in accounting of using red ink to make entries into a "debits" column. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
Oliver Why are you so late ? Problems with your make-up ? Dodie Don't be sarcastic. It was my girlfriend Susie. Oliver What's her problem this time ? Dodie She's just broken up with her boyfriend so she needed a shoulder to cry on. Oliver She never seems to be able to hang on to anyone for very long. Dodie It's not her fault, she just seems to have bad luck with men.
✍🏾Explanation : If someone offers you a shoulder to cry on or is a shoulder to cry on, they listen sympathetically to all your troubles.
Example : Roland sometimes saw me as a shoulder to cry on.
✍🏾Meaning: An Achilles' heel is a weakness that could result in failure.
❕For example:
🔺He's a good golfer, but his Achilles' heel is his putting and it's often made him lose matches.
🔺The country's dependence on imported oil could prove to be its Achilles' heel if prices keep on rising.
➕Origin: From the ancient Greek myth of Achilles whose mother made him invulnerable to attack by dipping him headfirst into a sacred river when he was a baby. She was holding him by one foot, and the heel of this foot wasn't touched by the water so it became his "weak point" later in life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: to make someone stay in a place like a school or a hospital
❕For example:
keep sb in 🔺My grandma said her teachers didn't keep naughty kids in after school to punish them. They just hit them.
keep sb in 🔺I went to the hospital because I wasn't feeling well, and they kept me in overnight for observation. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Phrasal_Verb_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday