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Idiom of the Day
📚err on the side of caution
✍🏾Meaning
If you err on the side of caution, you are overly careful in your approach to something.
❕For example
🔺My friends said I was erring on the side of caution when I decided not to risk investing my money in the share market.
🔺Gary doesn't think he errs on the side of caution. He just thinks he doesn't take unnecessary risks
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Slang of the Day
💠kick | kicks
✍🏾Meaning
excitement, fun
❕For example
🔺Sarah says she gets a kick out of trying new things like rafting and skydiving.
🔺Keith is in his sixties, but he still does the same things he's always done for kicks, like seeing rock bands and dancing around like a teenager.
Note:
usually used in the phrases "get a kick out of something" or "do something for kicks"
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Idiom of the Day
📚expand | broaden | widen your horizons
✍🏾Meaning
If you expand your horizons, you broaden your outlook on life and its possibilities.
❕For example
🔺It's a great idea for young people to travel because it can really expand their horizons.
🔺Louise reckons books broadened her horizons more than anything because they really helped her to find new ways of looking at the world.
Note:
The three forms of this idiom are: "expand your horizons", "broaden your horizons" and "widen your horizons"
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Slang of the Day
💠kick-ass
American English
✍🏾Meaning
forceful, aggressive
❕For example
🔺Geoff says he's sick of kick-ass politicians sending our kids off to die in unnecessary wars.
🔺Some people seem to think a macho, kick-ass image is good for the country, but I think it makes us look like immature schoolyard bullies.
Variety
This is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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Idiom of the Day
📚eyes like a hawk
✍🏾Meaning
If someone has eyes like a hawk, they have very good eyesight and they notice everything.
❕For example
🔺One of the president's bodyguards is over sixty, but he's still got eyes like a hawk. Just last year he spotted a guy pulling out a gun fifty yards away, and saved the president's life by pushing him to the ground.
🔺You need eyes like a hawk to be a line judge at Wimbledon, especially these days when the top tennis players hit the ball so fast.
Origin: Idiomatic simile related to the fact that a hawk is a bird with exceptionally good eyesight.
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Slang of the Day
💠killer
✍🏾Meaning
excellent, awesome, outstanding
❕For example
🔺Have you heard the killer new song that everyone's playing in the clubs this week?
🔺The movie starts with this killer scene on a ship in this massive storm.
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Idiom of the Day
📚Everything's coming up roses.
✍🏾Meaning
you can say "everything's coming up roses" if everything is turning out very well for someone or for something.
❕For example
🔺Everything's coming up roses this year. Our business is doing well, our son Brett got into college, and Josie's had her first baby - so we're grandparents as well!
🔺It looks like everything's coming up roses for Manchester United this year. They've won the Premiership, the Carling Cup, and now they're in the Euro Cup final as well!
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Slang of the Day
💠bugger off
offensive!
✍🏾Meaning
to go away
❕For example
🔺As soon as they'd finished eating dinner, the kids buggered off and left us to clean up the kitchen.
🔺After I'd hailed a taxi some guy ran up and tried to get in, so I grabbed his arm and told him to bugger off.
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Saying of the Day
🍂Empty vessels make the most noise
✍🏾Possible interpretation:
Stupid people speak loudest.
➕Note: vessel (noun): a container such as a bowl, usually for holding liquids | If you strike (hit) a full container it makes less noise than if you strike an empty one.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢bow out
✍🏾Meaning
to resign from a job, or to end a career, usually after a long time
Synonym
retire
❕For example
bow out
🔺 After being captain for many years, Paul bowed out so that a younger member of the team could take over.
bow out
🔺 Some politicians don't seem to know when it's time to bow out, and they cling to power for too long.
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Slang of the Day
💠pimp (1)
✍🏾Meaning:
a manager of prostitutes
❕For example:
🔺Sammy reckons a pimp's job is to make sure his girls are safe when they're working.
🔺Most of the pimps you see in movies are black guys with colourful clothes and lots of jewellery. Are pimps really like that?
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Saying of the Day
🍂The best things in life are free
✍🏾Possible interpretation:
We don't have to pay for the things that are really valuable, like love, friendship and good health.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢border on
✍🏾Meaning
If something like an action or an attitude borders on something more extreme, it is close to being that extreme.
Synonym
verge on, come close to
❕For example
border on sth
🔺 His fear of the government borders on paranoia.
border on sth
🔺 The fanatical excitement you see at some political rallies in the south borders on mass hysteria.
✔️Note:
Almost always used in relation to a negative extreme, though occasionally it's used in a more positive context, as in "his talent borders on genius".
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢blow up (1)
✍🏾Meaning
If you blow up something, you use explosives to damage or destroy it.
❕For example
blow sth up
🔺The soldiers blew the bridge up.
blow up sth
🔺 They blew up the wrong building and killed lots of innocent people.
Nouns often used as objects with blow up (1): building, bridge, target
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Saying of the Day
🍂All truths are not to be told
✍🏾Possible interpretation:
Some truths are better left unspoken. It is not always necessary to repeat something even though it be true.
➕Note: tell (verb): communicate information; report ("be told" is passive form of tell)
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢break down (1)
✍🏾Meaning
If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working because of a mechanical problem.
Synonym
conk out (informal)
❕For example
break down
🔺 Our bus broke down so we had to get out and wait for another one to come.
break down
🔺 Production has stopped because one of the machines at our factory has broken down.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢break down (2)
✍🏾Meaning
If someone breaks down, they start crying.
❕For example
break down
🔺When his wife broke down at his funeral, relatives and friends tried to comfort her.
break down
🔺 The prisoner broke down and wept when the judge sentenced him to life in prison.
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Idiom of the Day
📚quaking in your boots
✍🏾Meaning: If you're quaking in your boots, you are very frightened.
❕For example:
🔺This big, ugly dog was growling at me and baring its teeth. I was quaking in my boots, I can tell you!
🔺Our sergeant was a scary guy. He could make a new army recruit quake in his boots just by looking at him.
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