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✳️ upset the apple cart

✍ Meaning :
to cause trouble, especially by spoiling someone's plans
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✍ Examples :
✅ Look, he's not trying to upset the applecart—he just needs to meet later in the day now, that's all.
✅ Tom really upset the apple cart by telling Mary the truth about Jane. I always knew he'd tell secrets and upset the apple cart.
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✴️ Idiom of the Day

✳️the gift of the gab | the gift of gab


🔰Meaning:

If you've got the gift of the gab, or the gift of gab, you have the natural ability to talk in a way that people find entertaining or persuasive.

✍For example:

🔺All good salespeople have the gift of the gab, so people trust them and believe whatever they say.

🔺If you want to be a politician, you'll do much better if you were born with the gift of gab.

➕Note: "The gift of the gab" is used more in British and Australian English, while "the gift of gab" is used more in American English.
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🔆 Idiom of the Day

✳️ Knock it off!

✅ Meaning:

You can say "Knock it off!" when someone is doing something wrong, or something that's annoying you, and you want them to stop it.

✍ For example:

🔺Lek was squirting everyone with his water pistol until his older brother grabbed him and said, "Knock it off, will you?"

🔺The referee ran over to the players who were wrestling on the ground and said, "Knock it off or you'll both get a booking."
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🔰hit it off


✍Meaning:

If you meet someone for the first time and the two of you hit it off, you get along really well and have a great time together.

✅For example:

🔺Brad and Angelina hit it off the first time they met, and they've been together ever since.

🔺I met a guy at Alan's wedding and we hit it off straight away. We talked and laughed together all night.

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✳️ tit for tat

Ⓜ️eaning:
actions done intentionally to punish other people because they have done something unpleasant to you:

▪️ Example:
🔺 I noticed she didn't send me a card - I think it was tit for tat because I forgot her birthday last year.

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📝 Idiom of the Day

✴️ ahead of the game


Ⓜ️ Meaning:

You are ahead of the game if you have an advantage over your competitors in any activity in which you try to do better than others, such as in business, academia, sports, etc.

✍For example:

🔺We got ahead of the game by employing the best people in our research laboratories.

🔺You'll be ahead of the game when you start at university if you do a lot of preparation before the term begins.

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🔰 Idiom of the Day

✳️ vote with your feet

✅Meaning:
If you vote with your feet, you show your opinion of something by acting in a certain way, such as by buying something if you like it, or by not buying it if you don't like it.

💢 For example:
🔆When the price of concert tickets nearly doubled, music fans voted with their feet and didn't go to the concerts.

🔆Opponents of the fur trade are trying to get people to vote with their feet by refusing to buy from shops that sell any clothes that use fur.
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‍ 🌼Idioms

1. (A little bird told me)
something that you say in order to let someone know that you are not going to tell them who gave you the information being discussed

2. (A pain in the neck)
someone or something that is very annoying

3. (A piece of cake)
something very easy

4. (To lay off)
to stop using or doing something

5. (pigs can fly)
There is no chance of that ever happening.

6. (Dead tired)
Totally exhausted or fatigued.

7. (Call it a day)
to quit work and go home; to say that a day's work has been completed.

8. (In charge of)
Having control over or responsibility for.

9. (In the way)
to be close to doing something.

10. (Be my guest)
Help yourself.; After you. (A polite way of indicating that someone else should go first, help himself or herself to something, or take the last one of something.)
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💟 Idiom of the Day

nothing to write home about


🏵Meaning:
If you say something is nothing to write home about, you mean it isn't very important or it isn't very good.

✍For example:
We saw a movie today and it was nothing to write home about. It was just a typical action movie.

Helen said her date with the guy she met online was nothing to write home about, and she probably wouldn't see him again
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📝Idiom of the Day

💟 (someone's) name is mud

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🫥 Today: Wed, 17 Aug 2022


🤔Meaning:
If someone's name is mud, other people are angry with them, or they're no longer popular, because they've done something wrong.

✍For example:

💧Ian's name is mud now because everyone thinks he was the one who stole the money.

💧If any athletes test positive for a banned substance, their name will be mud.
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What does it mean to laugh something off when you laugh something off you don't take it seriously for example my coworker laughed my idea off and called it stupid he didn't take it seriously he laughed it off

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In the nick of time

Meaning ; at the last possible moment:

Example ;: We got there just in the nick of time.

Example : He decided to go just in the nick of time. The ambulance arrived in the nick of time.
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Definition of 'read the room'


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✍ meaning:

If you say that someone reads the room, you mean that they understand their audience and adapt what they say to suit it.

🔺I became an expert at an early age in reading the room.

🔺The club was accused of failing to read the room.

🔺He was so clearly used to being heard that he never learnt to listen or to read the room.

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Meaning of be dead meat in English

be dead meat

#idiom informal

If someone is dead meat, they are in a lot of trouble:

He'll be dead meat if his girlfriend finds out.
Miss the goal from this distance, and you are dead meat.

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make a scene

🔎Meaning:
To create a loud, typically angry disturbance or display in public, such that it draws attention to those involved.

✍Examples:
🔺Robert made a scene in the store when they refused to refund him for the broken television.

🔺My parents always make a scene with their fighting wherever we go.

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