🔹Essential American Idioms🔹
⭐️#ACCOMPLISHMENT:
✨Have come a long way
▶️ to have accomplished much; to have advanced much.
🔻My, how famous you are. You've come a long way.
🔻Tom has come a long way in a short time.
✨Let well enough alone AND leave well enough alone
▶️ to leave things as they are (and not try to improve them).
🔻There isn't much more you can accomplish here. Why don't you just let well enough alone.
🔻This is as good as I can do. I'll stop and leave well enough alone.
✨Make a dent in something
▶️ to begin to consume or accomplish something. (#Informal.)
🔻Bob, you've hardly made a dent in your dinner!
🔻There is a lot of rice left. We hardly made a dent in it all week.
🔻Get busy! You haven't even made a dent in your work.
✨Make a go of it
▶️ to make something work out all right. (#Informal.)
🔻It's a tough situation, but Ann is trying to make a go of it.
🔻We don’t like living here, but we have to make a go of it.
✨Make the grade
▶️ to be satisfactory; to be what is expected. (#Informal.)
🔻I'm sorry, but your work doesn't exactly make the grade.
🔻This meal doesn't just make the grade. It is excellent.
✨Put something over
▶️ to accomplish something.
🔻This is a very hard thing to explain to a large audience. I hope I can put it over.
🔻This is a big request for money. I go before the board of directors this afternoon, and I hope I can put it over.
✨Reach one's stride AND hit one's stride
▶️ to do something at one's best level of ability.
🔻When I reach my stride, things will go faster, and I'll be more efficient.
🔻Now that I've hit my stride, I can work more efficiently.
✨Square someone or something away
▶️ to get someone or something arranged properly taken care of.
🔻See if you can square Bob away in his new office.
🔻Please square away the problems we discussed earlier.
✨What's done is done.
▶️ It is final and in the past.
🔻It's too late to change it now. What's done is done.
🔻What's done is done. The past cannot be altered.
✨Work (one's way) into something
▶️ to (literally or figuratively) squeeze into something.
🔻Ann worked her way into the club, and now she's a member in good standing.
🔻The skunk worked its way into the hollow log.
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⭐️#ACCOMPLISHMENT:
✨Have come a long way
▶️ to have accomplished much; to have advanced much.
🔻My, how famous you are. You've come a long way.
🔻Tom has come a long way in a short time.
✨Let well enough alone AND leave well enough alone
▶️ to leave things as they are (and not try to improve them).
🔻There isn't much more you can accomplish here. Why don't you just let well enough alone.
🔻This is as good as I can do. I'll stop and leave well enough alone.
✨Make a dent in something
▶️ to begin to consume or accomplish something. (#Informal.)
🔻Bob, you've hardly made a dent in your dinner!
🔻There is a lot of rice left. We hardly made a dent in it all week.
🔻Get busy! You haven't even made a dent in your work.
✨Make a go of it
▶️ to make something work out all right. (#Informal.)
🔻It's a tough situation, but Ann is trying to make a go of it.
🔻We don’t like living here, but we have to make a go of it.
✨Make the grade
▶️ to be satisfactory; to be what is expected. (#Informal.)
🔻I'm sorry, but your work doesn't exactly make the grade.
🔻This meal doesn't just make the grade. It is excellent.
✨Put something over
▶️ to accomplish something.
🔻This is a very hard thing to explain to a large audience. I hope I can put it over.
🔻This is a big request for money. I go before the board of directors this afternoon, and I hope I can put it over.
✨Reach one's stride AND hit one's stride
▶️ to do something at one's best level of ability.
🔻When I reach my stride, things will go faster, and I'll be more efficient.
🔻Now that I've hit my stride, I can work more efficiently.
✨Square someone or something away
▶️ to get someone or something arranged properly taken care of.
🔻See if you can square Bob away in his new office.
🔻Please square away the problems we discussed earlier.
✨What's done is done.
▶️ It is final and in the past.
🔻It's too late to change it now. What's done is done.
🔻What's done is done. The past cannot be altered.
✨Work (one's way) into something
▶️ to (literally or figuratively) squeeze into something.
🔻Ann worked her way into the club, and now she's a member in good standing.
🔻The skunk worked its way into the hollow log.
#Thematic_Dictionary
#Essential_American_Idioms
@PMPerfect1