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✍🏾Meaning If you ask somebody out, you ask someone you like to go on a date with you.
Synonym invite out
❕For example ask sb out 🔺 It took Juan a long time to build up the courage to ask Mariella out, but at last he did and she said yes. Juan was so happy he couldn't help smiling.
ask sb out for sth 🔺 If you like her, why don't you ask her out for dinner? The worst that can happen is that she says no or makes an excuse.
Nouns often used as indirect objects with ask out: on a date, to a restaurant, to a movie, dancing ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Phrasal_Verb_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning (in phrases go ape and go apeshit) wild excitement or great anger
❕For example
🔺The guys in the band ran onto the stage, and all their fans went ape.
🔺When he saw the damage the kids had done to his car, Larry went apeshit and threatened to beat them up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Slang_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
🔺Nicky jacked a bottle of beer from the liquor store.
🔺Someone busted into my place today and jacked my damn computer!
➕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 go overboard, you do something too much or you do it with excessive enthusiasm.
❕For example:
🔺Whenever my son gets a new hobby, he goes completely overboard. He's just discovered jazz, so now he wants to buy a saxophone, get lessons, buy hundreds of jazz books and recordings, and he even wants to go to New Orleans.
✍🏾Harry gave his son a sportscar for his graduation present. Do you think he went a bit overboard?
➕Note: See "go over the top" for another idiom with a similar meaning. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: to face something that could be a problem or a difficulty
❕For example:
run up against sth 🔺We've run up against some technical problems so there'll be a delay in production.
run up against sth 🔺If they hadn't run up against opposition from corrupt government officials, they would have won the contract. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Phrasal_Verb_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: If you have another string to your bow, you have another way of making a living.
❕For example:
🔺Lots of people learn to teach English so they'll have another string to their bow.
🔺I've lost my job and I'll have to retrain for something else. I wish I already had another string to my bow.
➕Origin: Probably metaphorical, from the fact that if an archer has a spare string for their bow, they can still shoot an arrow even if their first string breaks.
📌Variety: This idiom is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Possible interpretation: According to this saying, "good zeal" cannot exist. It seems that zeal is inherently dangerous. When zeal is not a virtue, by definition it is not good. When zeal is a virtue, according to this saying it is dangerous, which is also not good. This saying relies heavily on paradox for its effect.
➕Note: zeal (noun) = enormous energy or enthusiasm for a cause or an objective | virtue (noun) = quality regarded as morally good in a person ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Saying_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: If something is playing up, it isn't working properly or it's causing problems.
❕For example:
play up 🔺This bloody printer is playing up again!
play up 🔺Whenever the weather is cold and damp, my back plays up and I have to take pain medicine. ━━━━━━━━━━━ #Phrasal_Verb_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday
✍🏾Meaning: If you have your work cut out for you, you have a difficult task to do or a challenging situation to face.
❕For example:
🔺Our son has left it to the last minute to write his essay, so now he really has his work cut out for him to get it done on time.
🔺Have you seen how good their team looks? You guys are really going to have your work cut out to beat them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Idiom_of_the_Day 🌀@Englishoftheday