✳ kidnap (v)

🔸Man being kidnapped by a driver wearing a hood
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✍ Meaning

Ⓜ: to take away (someone) by force usually in order to keep the person as a prisoner and demand money for returning the person

🔹She had been kidnapped (from her home).

🔹The kidnapper  demanded one million dollars in ransom.

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📝 Idiom of the Day

📚 kill two birds with one stone

✍ Meaning:
If you kill two birds with one stone, you achieve two things with the one action.

✍ For example:
🔺I need to go to the bank, and if I drop the books off at the library on the way I'll be killing two birds with one stone.

🔺Jenny says that she kills two birds with one stone if she does her own housework because she gets the house clean and she gets some exercise at the same time.

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📚 Phrasal Verb of the Day

✳️ watch out

✍ Meaning:

If you tell someone to watch out, you tell them to be careful or warn them of a danger.

🏷 For example:

🔺 watch out  ⤵️
Watch out! There's a car coming! Get off the road.

🔺 watch out ⤵️
 There are lots of thieves on these buses, so if you don't watch out you'll lose your wallet.

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🌺 pensive /ˈpensɪv/ adjective

Ⓜ thinking in a quiet way, often with a serious expression on your face:

✳ She became withdrawn and pensive, hardly speaking to anyone. 🤔

✨ pensively adverb
💢 Synonyms: wistful, deep in thought, thoughtful

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🍉 covet /ˈkʌvət/ verb [ T ] formal

Ⓜ to want to have something very much, especially something that belongs to someone else:

🍀 She always coveted power but never quite achieved it.

✨ covetousness noun [ U ]
✨ covetous adjective
✨ covetously adverb
💢 Synonyms: desire, yearn for

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💐 amenable /əˈmiːnəbəl/ adjective

Ⓜ (of a person) open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.

✅ an amenable servant/ amenable to criticism

💟 She might be more amenable to the idea if you explained how much money it would save.

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📚 Idioms

1.At the End of One's Rope

📑Explanation:
At the limit of one's ability to cope

✏️Example:
I am at the end of my rope with these train delays.

2.Shake a Leg

📑Explanation:
Hurry / be quick

✏️Example:
Hey, kids, shake a leg! You're going to be late for school!

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📚 Vocabulary

🚫 Disqualify sb (v.) [disˈkwäləˌfī]

❗️Meaning:
Officially stop sb from taking part in sth because they have broken a rule.

❕Example:
You will be disqualified for cheating.

❌ Contradict (v.) [ˌkäntrəˈdikt]

❗️Meaning:
Deny the truth of a statement, especially by asserting the opposite.

❕Example:
The survey appears to contradict the industry's claims.

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🌲 Out Of The Woods 🌲
➕No longer in danger
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💵 Shell Out 💵
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🔰 in the chips


☑️ Meaning: wealthy; with much money.


✨ For example:

🔹 John is a stock trader, and occasionally he’s in the chips.

🔹 Bill really came into the chips when his uncle died.
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💬 Run out of sth

✍ Means: to use or sell all of something so that there is nothing left.

✨ Examples:

♦️We've run out of milk. Could you get some on your way home?

♦My patience is beginning to run out.

♦️We are about to run out of paper and toner.
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✳ withdraw

🔹The woman is withdrawing cash from the ATM.
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📌 definition of WITHDRAW

1⃣  to remove (money) from a bank account

🔸She withdrew $200 from her checking account.

2⃣  to take (something) back so that it is no longer available

🔸The pills were 
withdrawn [=recalled] from the market because they were unsafe.

3⃣ [formal :]
to take back (something that is spoken, offered, etc.)

🔸The company 
withdrew [=retracted] the job offer.

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📝 in which = where

That's the restaurant in which we met for the first time.

That's the restaurant where we met for the first time.

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📝 at which = where

That picture was taken in the park at which I used to play.

That picture was taken in the park where I used to play.

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📝 on which = when

I remember the day on which we first met.

I remember the day when we first met.

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📝 in which = when

There was a very hot summer the year in which he was born.

There was a very hot summer the year when he was born.

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📝 for which = why

Tell me the reason for which you came home late.

Tell me the reason why you came home late.

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📝 for which = why

Do you want to know the reason for which he is angry with Sara?

Do you want to know the reason why he is angry with Sara?
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💡 Notes

🔻The relative adverb when can be replaced by ‘in/on which’. Where can be replaced by ‘in/at which’. Why can be replaced by ‘for which’.

👲🏻I don’t know the day when he came. (= I don’t know the day on which he came.)

🏡 I know the house where he lives. (= I know the house in which he lives.)

💻 Do you know a shop where I can buy used laptops? (= Do you know a shop at which I can buy used laptops?)

😭 Do you know the reason why she cried? (= Do you know the reason for which she cried.)

🔻 Here are some more sentences that need a preposition:

"This is the table from which I took the book; This is the table which I took the book from." You can see that "This is the table which I took the book" doesn't work.
"This is the man to whom I owe the money; This is the man whom I owe the money to"
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✳️ To hit the nail on the head (expression)

Ⓜ️ = to be exactly/absolutely right about something.

🔹”She hit the the nail on the head when she said that the Prime Minister promised so much and yet changed so little”.

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