🔰 Phrasal Verb
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✴ zone out
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🏵 Meaning:
If someone zones out, they look blankly ahead without paying attention, maybe because they're tired or bored or affected by drugs.
🏵 For example:
🔺 zone out: Peter sometimes gets bored in class and zones out. He looks like he's a million miles away.
🔺 be zoned out: I was talking to Debbie, but she was so zoned out that she didn't even hear me.
🏵 Variety: This phrasal verb is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too
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✴ zone out
➕ INFORMAL
🏵 Meaning:
If someone zones out, they look blankly ahead without paying attention, maybe because they're tired or bored or affected by drugs.
🏵 For example:
🔺 zone out: Peter sometimes gets bored in class and zones out. He looks like he's a million miles away.
🔺 be zoned out: I was talking to Debbie, but she was so zoned out that she didn't even hear me.
🏵 Variety: This phrasal verb is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too
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🔰 Idiom
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✴ keep abreast of
🏵 Meaning:
If you keep abreast of something, you always know about the latest news and developments in relation to it.
🏵 For example:
🔺No matter where I am in the world, I can read Karen's blog to keep abreast of activities in our club.
🔺Don't you think part of a prime minister's job is to keep abreast of world affairs?
➕ Note: A synonymous idiom is "keep up with".
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✴ keep abreast of
🏵 Meaning:
If you keep abreast of something, you always know about the latest news and developments in relation to it.
🏵 For example:
🔺No matter where I am in the world, I can read Karen's blog to keep abreast of activities in our club.
🔺Don't you think part of a prime minister's job is to keep abreast of world affairs?
➕ Note: A synonymous idiom is "keep up with".
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🔶 Entrepreneur (noun)
Ⓜ️= a person who sets up (starts) their own business.
🔹”Many entrepreneurs see potential in this market".
Are you an entrepreneur ?
Would you like to be?
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Ⓜ️= a person who sets up (starts) their own business.
🔹”Many entrepreneurs see potential in this market".
Are you an entrepreneur ?
Would you like to be?
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📝 Phrasal verb
💬 Look up to
🔎 Examples:
🦋She chose him as an advisor because she has always looked up to him.
🦋She wanted her students to look up to her, so worked hard.
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💬 Look up to
To look up to means to admire or respect..
🔎 Examples:
🦋She chose him as an advisor because she has always looked up to him.
🦋She wanted her students to look up to her, so worked hard.
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💬 To be on edge
✍ To be nervous/ worried with a feeling of unease, usually in anticipation of some event, or because of something that has already happened.
🔶 Examples:
🦄 I'm waiting exam result. At the moment I'm quite on edge, bcz I'm anticipating my result.😓
🦄 Sorry for shouting - I'm a bit on edge today.🥺
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✍ To be nervous/ worried with a feeling of unease, usually in anticipation of some event, or because of something that has already happened.
🔶 Examples:
🦄 I'm waiting exam result. At the moment I'm quite on edge, bcz I'm anticipating my result.😓
🦄 Sorry for shouting - I'm a bit on edge today.🥺
✳️ #Idiom
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📅 Idiom
📚 You are what you eat.
✍🏾 Meaning:
You can say "you are what you eat" when you want to point out the connection between food and health.
❕ For example:
🔺Why do you eat so much bad stuff like pizza, hamburgers, fries and ice-cream? You are what you eat, you know.
🔺Shelley looks fantastic. When people ask her what her secret is, she smiles and says, "It's simple. You are what you eat."
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📚 You are what you eat.
✍🏾 Meaning:
You can say "you are what you eat" when you want to point out the connection between food and health.
❕ For example:
🔺Why do you eat so much bad stuff like pizza, hamburgers, fries and ice-cream? You are what you eat, you know.
🔺Shelley looks fantastic. When people ask her what her secret is, she smiles and says, "It's simple. You are what you eat."
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♦️ IDIOM
✳ keep track of
✍ Meaning:
If you keep track of something or someone, you continue to know what's happening with them.
👉 For example:
🔹When I'm travelling I keep track of my football team by checking out their website.
🔹Rosie has so many grandchildren and great grandchildren that she has trouble keeping track of them all.
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✳ keep track of
✍ Meaning:
If you keep track of something or someone, you continue to know what's happening with them.
👉 For example:
🔹When I'm travelling I keep track of my football team by checking out their website.
🔹Rosie has so many grandchildren and great grandchildren that she has trouble keeping track of them all.
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🔔 Phrasal Verb of the Day
✳ name for
🔷 Meaning:
If you name somebody for someone else, you give them the same name.
🔶 For example:
name sb/sth for sb/sth:
When Bill and Jenny named their son for the revolutionary fighter Che Guevara, their parents thought they were crazy. But now they like the name "Che".
sb/sth will be named for sb/sth :
The new concert hall in Harlem will be named for the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. It'll be called "The James Brown Memorial Hall".
➕ Note: "Name after" is the British and Australian equivalent.
💢 Variety: This phrasal verb is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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✳ name for
🔷 Meaning:
If you name somebody for someone else, you give them the same name.
🔶 For example:
name sb/sth for sb/sth:
When Bill and Jenny named their son for the revolutionary fighter Che Guevara, their parents thought they were crazy. But now they like the name "Che".
sb/sth will be named for sb/sth :
The new concert hall in Harlem will be named for the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. It'll be called "The James Brown Memorial Hall".
➕ Note: "Name after" is the British and Australian equivalent.
💢 Variety: This phrasal verb is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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✳ Struggle
🔺 Woman struggling to close an umbrella
❇ MEANING :
to try very hard to do, achieve, or deal with something that is difficult or that causes problems
He has been struggling with the problem of how to keep good workers from leaving.
✅They struggled for the right to vote.
✅They struggled against injustice.
✅I had to struggle against the impulse to laugh. [=I had to make a strong effort to keep myself from laughing]
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🔺 Woman struggling to close an umbrella
❇ MEANING :
to try very hard to do, achieve, or deal with something that is difficult or that causes problems
He has been struggling with the problem of how to keep good workers from leaving.
✅They struggled for the right to vote.
✅They struggled against injustice.
✅I had to struggle against the impulse to laugh. [=I had to make a strong effort to keep myself from laughing]
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