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🔺I had a close shave driving home last night. A deer ran across the road in front of me and I almost drove into a tree.
🔺I was walking in the mountains when a rock crashed down onto the path behind me. I don't need another close shave like that! ━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: a person or an activity that is not effective or successful
▪️For example:
🔺The local council's "Fit in the Park" exercise program for overweight kids was a dead loss. By the second week, all the kids had dropped out.
🔺The last guy I interviewed for the job was a dead loss. He stared at the floor and gave one-word answers to my questions. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_day 🌀@Englishoftheday
🔺We went down to Rio for the Mardi Gras and we had a great time. It was a riot!
🔺Theresa was a riot at the office Christmas party. She told some really funny stories and did some of the silliest dances you'll ever see. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: If you get your act together, you greatly improve your attitude and performance in relation to something such as your work, or to life in general.
▪️For example:
🔺You're in your thirties now, so it's time you got your act together and started behaving like a mature adult.
🔺Terry is trying to get his act together and do better in all aspects of his life. ━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
🔺If you're near a British pub around closing time, be careful. People who've had a few too many drinks can get pretty aggro and they might be looking for a fight.
🔺These young guys think they have to look tough and do this whole aggro thing to get some respect.
🗨Origin: short for aggression or aggravation
👁🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: If you speak off the cuff, you speak without planning what you will say beforehand.
🔹For example:
🔺She wasn't expecting to win, so she hadn't prepared a speech, but she still managed to say a few words off the cuff after being given the award.
🔺The prime minister keeps making off-the-cuff remarks that get him into trouble.
💢Note: When used to modify a noun or a noun phrase, this idiom should be written with hyphens, as in "an off-the-cuff comment".
👁🗨Origin: Possibly related to the fact that people sometimes write last-minute notes on the cuff of their shirt's sleeve before making a speech or saying a few words. ━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: If you’re amped about something, you’re super excited or you can’t wait for something to happen.
🔺Example 1)
🅰️“I can’t wait to see Beyonce live!”
🅱️“Me too, I’m amped.”
☑️It can also mean you’re really determined and you want something to happen. With this meaning you can also replace amped with pumped. In other words you’re full of adrenalin!
🔺Example 2)
🅰️“I’m so amped for the game tonight!”
🅱️“Yeah, I’m sure you are! You guys need to beat the Sox.” ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: in poor condition; worn or damaged because of continuous use
🔹For example:
🔺Ratty old jeans are always in fashion among rock musicians.
🔺Don't you think it's time we replaced that ratty wallpaper in the kitchen?
👁🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: If you identify with someone, you feel you have a connection with them and you can understand them and share their feelings.
🔹For example:
identify with sb 🔺A lot of mothers could identify with the woman who protested against the war after her son was killed in the fighting.
identify with sb 🔺Lots of young guys identify with young male singers and rap stars, and dress like them and act like them. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Phrasal_Verb_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
👁🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: If you have the upper hand, you have the advantage or you're in the stronger position in a contest or a conflict.
🔺For example:
▪️With one race to go, the Ferrari team has the upper hand. If they get one of the top three places in the last race, they'll win this year's title.
▪️For many years Yahoo was the top search engine, but for the last few years Google has had the upper hand. ━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: an overweight person, esp. one with large buttocks
❗️For example:
🔺Madge has become such a lardass since she stopped exercising and started eating too much.
🔺Bill and Jill get on really well. They're both lardasses who love watching TV all day and eating snacks non-stop.
👁🗨Variety: This slang term is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: You kill time when you do something to amuse yourself while waiting for something.
❗️For example:
🔺I had to kill time at the airport because of the delay so I bought a book of crossword puzzles.
🔺We kill time on long trips by playing this game in which someone thinks of a country, and the next person has to think of another country that starts with the last letter of the first one, like Thailand, Denmark, Kenya, Afghanistan, Nepal, and so on. ━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: ▫️Very secret; classified ▫️highly secret or confidential
▪️For example:
🔺I want you to keep this hush-hush, but my wife is pregnant! 🔺a hush-hush political investigation. 🔺a hush-hush border meeting ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: If something belongs to a person, it is owned by that person.
▪️For example:
1️⃣belong to 🔺Who do these CD's belong to? Are they yours?
2️⃣belong to sb 🔺Native Americans couldn't understand the idea that a piece of land could belong to one person. It was for everyone to use, like the air in the sky or the water in a river. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Phrasal_Verb_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday