📅 Phrasal Verb of the Day
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✳️ pass by


✍ Meaning:

to go past something or someone

🔎 For example:

🔺 pass by sth--> I pass by the post office on my way to work, so I can drop in and post your parcel if you like. 

🔺 pass by--> I hate it when you signal an empty taxi and it just passes by without stopping.
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Phrasal Verbs with PASS: pass up, pass away, pass out...
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📚 Idiom of the Day 📝

pick up the tab | pick up the bill

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✍🏽 Meaning:
If you pick up the tab, or pick up the bill, you pay for yourself and your friends in a restaurant or a bar.

✍ For example:

🔺When people go out to celebrate a birthday in Thailand, whoever's having the birthday picks up the tab.

🔺In general in Asia, the person with the highest status picks up the bill in a restaurant.

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🔄 Slang of the Day
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🔵 funky (2)


🔶 Meaning:

having strong dance rhythms

☑️ For example:

🔹Madonna's new single has some really funky beats.

🔹We went to a club last night and the DJ played some of the funkiest tracks we've heard in a while. 
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'Go on doing' or 'go on to do' - what's the difference?⠀

☪ #grammar
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✴️ #bbclearningenglish
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Watch video and try to answer below question

✳️Nuance

🔺(noun) /ˈnjuːɑːns/

Ⓜ️ = a very slight or a subtle difference.

✏️”The painter has managed to capture every nuance of the woman's expression”.
✏️“Linguists explore the nuances of language”.
✏️“It’s hard to learn all the nuances of a language”.

✳️ #video
✴️ #vocabulary
💟 #Pronunciation
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✴️ Ways to warn someone

What do you do when someone's in danger? ⚡⠀

Here's how to do it! Can you think of any other expressions?⠀
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✳️ Cut-throat (adjective)

Ⓜ️eaning = intense, aggressive and fierce competition.

✅ #video
🛃 #vocabulary
✴️ #adjective
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🎬 To do something by the book

Ⓜ️ = to do something exactly according to the rules/law/regulations.

🔹”He’s an careful person and likes to do everything by the book”.
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⛱ anxious 🤨😓

🅿️ronunciation:
/ˈaŋ(k)ʃəs/
❇️ (adjective)
Ⓜ️eans =

nervous

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#video #Pronunciation #vocabulary

English in a Minute:

Call Shotgun
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IELTS Speaking Exam Tips
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English in a minute

When it rains it pours
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News Words: Retreat
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Useful Study Phrasal Verbs to Improve Fluency
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The difference between 'Early' , 'Quickly' and 'Soon' .
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🔶 snowdrift ☃

🔹/ˈsnoʊˌdrɪft/
🔹noun
🔹plural: snowdrifts

The car is buried in a snowdrift.

✍ definition
 a hill of snow that is formed by wind

🥎 The car was almost buried in a snowdrift.

🔘 #vocabulary
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📝 Phrasal Verb of the Day
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✴️ take off (4)


📚 Meaning:

to become popular or successful in a short time

🔎 For example:

🔺Sales of the book really took off after it was made into a movie.

🔺 If our new computer game takes off, we'll all be rich!
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📅 Idiom of the Day
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✳️ cook the books | cook the accounts


✍ Meaning:

If someone cooks the books, or cooks the accounts, they keep inaccurate accounts for a business, usually in order to pay less tax.

🔎 For example:

✅Their accountant was charged with cooking the books, and now he's in jail.

✅I found this website that shows you how to cook the accounts, but I'd never try doing it.
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