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Idiom of the Day
📚call a spade a spade
✍🏾Meaning
If you call a spade a spade, you tell the truth in a straightforward and direct way, even if the truth is not pleasant.
❕For example
🔺I should warn you that Sandra calls a spade a spade, so if she thinks you say something wrong or make a mistake, she'll say so.
🔺Sometimes it's good to call a spade a spade, but sometimes it's better to be more diplomatic in what you say.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢add to
✍🏾Meaning
If something adds to something, it makes it better, greater, stronger or more extreme in some way.
❕r exampleFo
add to sth
🔺 During the riot, the sound of wailing sirens only added to the sense of chaos and confusion.
add sth to sth
🔺 The light show added a lot of atmosphere to the conce
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Slang of the Day
💠action (1)
✍🏾Meaning
important or exciting activity
❕For example
🔺I've always lived in inner-city areas because I like to be where the action is.
🔺If you want to get into movies, Los Angeles is where the action is.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢add up
✍🏾Meaning
to add two or more numbers in order to find the total amount
❕Synonym
tot up (informal)
For example
add up
🔺 Fran has a good head for figures. She can add up really quickly, and she always gets the answer right.
add up sth
🔺 Could you add up these amounts and let me know the total?
add sth up
🔺 After he jotted down the cost of each dish, he added them up and found the total cost of the meal.
Nouns often used as objects with add up: numbers, figures, amounts, prices, costs
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Slang of the Day
💠airheadAmerican English offensive!
✍🏾Meaning
a silly, stupid person
❕For example
🔺Joel says only airheads watch the shopping channel.
🔺Just because I'm a blonde woman who likes shopping and going to the gym some people call me an airhead, and I'm not!
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
📚come up trumpsBritish English
✍🏾Meaning
If you come up trumps, you succeed in something that you may not have been expected to succeed in.
❕For example
🔺Nicole came up trumps, winning her match despite her injured knee.
🔺John's dad was sure his son would came up trumps, and he did.
➕Note:
The idiom "to turn up trumps" has the same meaning.
💥Origin: From card games in which a card of the suit that is designated "trumps" is of greater value than a card of another suit, so a player with many trumps in his hand has a good chance of winning.
💢Variety
This idiom is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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Slang of the Day
💠ain't
✍🏾Meaning
slang contraction of "is not", "are not", "am not", "have not" and "has not"
❕For example
🔺He ain't got the money for it, so he ain't gonna be goin' on no holiday to the Greek Islands, is he?
🔺She's a beautiful girl, and her brother ain't too bad lookin', either.
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Idiom of the Day
📚chickens come home to roost
✍🏾Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.
❕For example
🔺Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.
🔺The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.
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Idiom of the Day
📚cover your tracks
✍🏾Meaning
If you cover your tracks, you make sure no-one can find evidence of what you've done.
❕For example
🔺He's a smart guy and he knew how to cover his tracks so the police couldn't connect him to the crime.
🔺Bob didn't cover his tracks well enough, and his wife found a romantic text message that a girl had sent to his phone.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢average out at
✍🏾Meaning
to come to a certain amount on average
❕For example
average out at sth
🔺 My wife's income depends on how many paintings she sells, but it averages out at about $10,000 a month.
average out at sth
🔺 The time I spend working on my novel varies quite a bit, but it averages out at about two hours a day.
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Idiom of the Day
📚come to a head
✍🏾Meaning
You can say a situation or a problem comes to a head if it reaches a crisis point and dealing with it can no longer be avoided.
❕For example
🔺The conflict between the company and the workers came to a head at the annual general meeting when some of the workers protested about their conditions and wages.
🔺Phil and Sue hadn't been getting on well, and things came to head when Phil forgot to pick Sue up from work. They had a huge argument and now Sue's gone to stay with her mother.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢associate with
✍🏾Meaning
If you associate with someone, you regularly spend time with them.
❕For example
associate with sb
🔺 While my brother was in New York in the late 70's, he associated with lots of punk musicians and underground artists.
associate with sb
🔺 If Terry associates with other criminals, he'll be sent back to jail again.
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Idiom of the Day
📚cut to the chase
INFORMAL
✍🏾Meaning
If you tell someone to cut to the chase, you want them to get straight to the main point of what they are saying.
❕For example
🔺I didn't have time to chat, so I told Ben to cut to the chase and just tell me what he wanted.
🔺He doesn't understand that in some countries small talk is expected, and you never cut to the chase and get straight down to business.
➕Origin: Possibly related to the fact that many early silent movies included an exciting chase sequence, and young men especially might yell out "cut to the chase" in the hope that the projectionist would skip the boring parts of the film and go straight to the most exciting parts, especially the chase.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢attend to
✍🏾Meaning
to deal with something or someone
❕Synonym
see to
For example
attend to sb
🔺 Are you sure we have enough sales staff to attend to all our customers at busy times?
attend to sth
🔺 I attend to day-to-day issues in the morning, and then I work on longer-term issues like planning and strategy.
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📚come to grips with | get to grips with
✍🏾Meaning
If you come to grips with something, or get to grips with something, you deal with the problems or challenges it poses.
❕For example
🔺The government is having trouble coming to grips with the problem of rising oil prices.
🔺If Henry wants to be a successful executive, he'll have to get to grips with his fear of public speaking.
✔️Note:
"Get to grips with" is more common in British English. "Come to grips with" is more common in American English.
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Phrasal Verb of the Day
💢amount to
✍🏾Meaning
to be similar to, or to have the same effect as
Synonym
constitute
❕For example
amount to
🔺 Does having two CDs released in ten years amount to a successful career as a musician?
amount to
🔺 The government calls the killing of innocent people by the military "collateral damage", but Mike says in many cases it amounts to nothing less than murder.
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Slang of the Day
💠airy-fairy
✍🏾Meaning
overly idealistic, lacking down-to-earth common sense
❕For example
🔺When hippies appeared in the sixties, their ideas about peace and love were called airy-fairy nonsense.
🔺Johnny reckons the New Age people he sometimes meets talk about airy-fairy stuff like "aura healings" and "past-life therapy".
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📚a chip off the old block
✍🏾Meaning
Someone can be described as a chip off the old block if they are very similar in character to one of their parents, usually their father.
❕For example
🔺Everyone says I'm a chip off the old block, but I think I'm very different to my dad.
🔺Jenny's a real chip off the old block. She must have been very close to her father when she was young.
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