🔹Essential American Idioms🔹
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✨Find one's own level ▶️ to find the position or rank to which one is best suited. (As water "seeks its own level.")
🔻You can not force clerks to be ambitious. They will all find their own level.
🔻The new student is happier in the beginning class. It was just a question of letting her find her own level.
✨Meet the requirements (for something) ▶️ to fulfill the requirements for something.
🔻Sally was unable to meet the requirements for the job.
🔻Jane met the requirements and was told to report to work the next day.
✨Pay one's dues ▶️ to have earned one's right to something through hard work or suffering. (#Informal.)
🔻He worked hard to get to where he is today. He paid his dues and did what he was told.
🔻I have every right to be here. I paid my dues!
✨Pull something off ▶️ to manage to make something happen. (#Informal.)
🔻Do you think you can pull off this deal?
🔻Yes, I can pull it off.
✨Rest on one's laurels ▶️ to enjoy one's success and not try to achieve more.
🔻Don't rest on your laurels. Try to continue to do great things!
🔻I think I'll rest on my laurels for a time before attempting anything new.
✨Run the good race ▶️ to do the best that one could; to live life as well and as fully as possible.
🔻He didn't get what he wanted, but he ran the good race.
🔻Joan ran the good race, and she will be remembered by all of us.
✨Get to first base (with someone or something) AND reach first base (with someone or something) ▶️ to make a major advance with someone or something. (#Informal. First base refers to baseball.)
🔻I wish I could get to first base with this business deal.
🔻John adores Sally, but he shirt? can't even reach first base with her. She won't even speak to him.
🔻He smiles and acts friendly, but he can't get to first base.
✨Go a long way toward doing something AND go a long way in doing something almost ▶️ to satisfy specific conditions; to be almost right.
🔻This machine goes a long way toward meeting our needs.
🔻Your plan went a long way in helping us with our problem.
✨Measure up (to someone's expectations) ▶️ to be as good as one expects.
🔻This meal doesn't measure up to my expectations.
🔻Why doesn't it measure up?
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⭐️#ACHIEVEMENT
✨Find one's own level ▶️ to find the position or rank to which one is best suited. (As water "seeks its own level.")
🔻You can not force clerks to be ambitious. They will all find their own level.
🔻The new student is happier in the beginning class. It was just a question of letting her find her own level.
✨Meet the requirements (for something) ▶️ to fulfill the requirements for something.
🔻Sally was unable to meet the requirements for the job.
🔻Jane met the requirements and was told to report to work the next day.
✨Pay one's dues ▶️ to have earned one's right to something through hard work or suffering. (#Informal.)
🔻He worked hard to get to where he is today. He paid his dues and did what he was told.
🔻I have every right to be here. I paid my dues!
✨Pull something off ▶️ to manage to make something happen. (#Informal.)
🔻Do you think you can pull off this deal?
🔻Yes, I can pull it off.
✨Rest on one's laurels ▶️ to enjoy one's success and not try to achieve more.
🔻Don't rest on your laurels. Try to continue to do great things!
🔻I think I'll rest on my laurels for a time before attempting anything new.
✨Run the good race ▶️ to do the best that one could; to live life as well and as fully as possible.
🔻He didn't get what he wanted, but he ran the good race.
🔻Joan ran the good race, and she will be remembered by all of us.
✨Get to first base (with someone or something) AND reach first base (with someone or something) ▶️ to make a major advance with someone or something. (#Informal. First base refers to baseball.)
🔻I wish I could get to first base with this business deal.
🔻John adores Sally, but he shirt? can't even reach first base with her. She won't even speak to him.
🔻He smiles and acts friendly, but he can't get to first base.
✨Go a long way toward doing something AND go a long way in doing something almost ▶️ to satisfy specific conditions; to be almost right.
🔻This machine goes a long way toward meeting our needs.
🔻Your plan went a long way in helping us with our problem.
✨Measure up (to someone's expectations) ▶️ to be as good as one expects.
🔻This meal doesn't measure up to my expectations.
🔻Why doesn't it measure up?
📚#Thematic_Dictionary
🇺🇸#Essential_American_Idioms
@PMPerfect1