✨mo
Meaning: moment
🔶For example:
🔺I'll be back in a mo.
🔺Hang on a mo!
🔘Origin: short for "moment"
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Meaning: moment
🔶For example:
🔺I'll be back in a mo.
🔺Hang on a mo!
🔘Origin: short for "moment"
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✨ BALLS-UP
= something that is done wrong or badly:
🔹The whole trip was a complete balls-up.
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= something that is done wrong or badly:
🔹The whole trip was a complete balls-up.
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🔴 Chew nail
= To be very angry; be livid
✨We’d better get out before she starts chewing nail.
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= To be very angry; be livid
✨We’d better get out before she starts chewing nail.
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💢LOL #slang ➡️ is an acronym of laugh out loud. It can be used as an interjection and a verb:
🔹That was a great joke! LOL! (interjection)
🔹I lol everytime I hear you say squirrel. (verb)
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🔹That was a great joke! LOL! (interjection)
🔹I lol everytime I hear you say squirrel. (verb)
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✨GEEK /ɡiːk/ BrE AmE noun [countable]
geeky #adjective
= #informal someone who is not popular because they wear unfashionable clothes, do not know how to behave in social situations, or do strange things SYN nerd:
🔹Thanks to brilliant computer geeks, I can copy, scan, fax, and send photos all from a single machine.
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geeky #adjective
= #informal someone who is not popular because they wear unfashionable clothes, do not know how to behave in social situations, or do strange things SYN nerd:
🔹Thanks to brilliant computer geeks, I can copy, scan, fax, and send photos all from a single machine.
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⭐️#ABANDONMENT
✨Desert a sinking ship AND Leave a sinking ship ▶️ to leave a place, a person, or a situation when things become difficult or unpleasant. (Rats are said to be the first to leave a ship that is sinking.)
🔻I hate to be the one to desert a sinking ship, but I can't stand it around here anymore.
🔻There goes Tom. Wouldn't you know he'd leave a sinking ship rather than stay around and try to help?
✨Leave someone for dead ▶️ to abandon someone as being dead. (The abandoned person may actually be alive.)
🔻He looked so bad that they almost left him for dead.
🔻As the soldiers turned—leaving the enemy captain for dead—the captain fired at them.
✨Leave someone high and dry ▶️ to leave someone unsupported and unable to maneuver; to leave someone helpless. (#Informal.)
🔻All my workers quit and left me high and dry.
🔻All the children ran away and left Billy high and dry to take the blame for the broken window.
✨Skip out (on someone or something) ▶️ to sneak away from someone; to leave someone in secret. (#Slang.)
🔻I heard that Bill skipped out on his wife.
🔻I'm not surprised. I thought he should have skipped out long ago.
✨Walk out on someone ▶️ to abandon someone; to leave one's spouse.
🔻Mr. Franklin walked out on Mrs. Franklin last week.
🔻Bob walked out on Jane without saying good-bye.
✨Wash one's hands of someone or something ▶️ to end one's association with someone or something.
🔻I washed my hands of Tom. I wanted no more to do with him.
🔻That car was a real headache. I washed my hands of it long ago.
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⭐️#ABANDONMENT
✨Desert a sinking ship AND Leave a sinking ship ▶️ to leave a place, a person, or a situation when things become difficult or unpleasant. (Rats are said to be the first to leave a ship that is sinking.)
🔻I hate to be the one to desert a sinking ship, but I can't stand it around here anymore.
🔻There goes Tom. Wouldn't you know he'd leave a sinking ship rather than stay around and try to help?
✨Leave someone for dead ▶️ to abandon someone as being dead. (The abandoned person may actually be alive.)
🔻He looked so bad that they almost left him for dead.
🔻As the soldiers turned—leaving the enemy captain for dead—the captain fired at them.
✨Leave someone high and dry ▶️ to leave someone unsupported and unable to maneuver; to leave someone helpless. (#Informal.)
🔻All my workers quit and left me high and dry.
🔻All the children ran away and left Billy high and dry to take the blame for the broken window.
✨Skip out (on someone or something) ▶️ to sneak away from someone; to leave someone in secret. (#Slang.)
🔻I heard that Bill skipped out on his wife.
🔻I'm not surprised. I thought he should have skipped out long ago.
✨Walk out on someone ▶️ to abandon someone; to leave one's spouse.
🔻Mr. Franklin walked out on Mrs. Franklin last week.
🔻Bob walked out on Jane without saying good-bye.
✨Wash one's hands of someone or something ▶️ to end one's association with someone or something.
🔻I washed my hands of Tom. I wanted no more to do with him.
🔻That car was a real headache. I washed my hands of it long ago.
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⭐️#ABILITY
✨Equal to someone or something ▶️ able to handle or deal with someone or something.
🔻I'm afraid that I'm not equal to Mrs. Smith's problem right now. Please ask her to come back later.
🔻That's a very difficult task, but I'm sure Bill is equal to it.
✨Hard put (to do something) AND hard pressed (to do something) ▶️ able to do something only with great difficulty.
🔻I'm hard put to come up with enough money to pay the rent.
🔻I get hard put like that about once a month.
✨Have a way with someone or something ▶️ to handle or deal well with someone or something.
🔻John has a way with hamburger. It's always delicious.
🔻Mother has a way with Father. She'll get him to paint the house.
✨Have something on the ball ▶️ to be smart and clever. (#Slang.)
🔻Both John and Mary have a lot on the ball. They should go far.
🔻I think I'd do better in school if I had more on the ball. I learn slowly.
✨Have the Midas touch ▶️ to have the ability to be successful, especially the ability to make money easily. (From the name of a legendary king whose touch turned everything to gold.)
🔻Bob is a merchant banker and really has the Midas touch.
🔻The poverty stricken boy turned out to have the Midas touch and was a millionaire by the time he was twenty-
five.
✨Have what it takes ▶️ to have the courage or stamina (to do something).
🔻Bill has what it takes. He can swim for miles.
🔻Tom won't succeed. He doesn't have what it takes.
✨To the best of one's ability ▶️ as well as one is able.
🔻I did the work to the best of my ability.
🔻You should always work to the best of your ability.
✨Up to something ▶️ capable of something; fit enough for something.
🔻John's not up to doing a job of that kind.
🔻Mary's mother's been ill and is not up to traveling yet.
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⭐️#ABILITY
✨Equal to someone or something ▶️ able to handle or deal with someone or something.
🔻I'm afraid that I'm not equal to Mrs. Smith's problem right now. Please ask her to come back later.
🔻That's a very difficult task, but I'm sure Bill is equal to it.
✨Hard put (to do something) AND hard pressed (to do something) ▶️ able to do something only with great difficulty.
🔻I'm hard put to come up with enough money to pay the rent.
🔻I get hard put like that about once a month.
✨Have a way with someone or something ▶️ to handle or deal well with someone or something.
🔻John has a way with hamburger. It's always delicious.
🔻Mother has a way with Father. She'll get him to paint the house.
✨Have something on the ball ▶️ to be smart and clever. (#Slang.)
🔻Both John and Mary have a lot on the ball. They should go far.
🔻I think I'd do better in school if I had more on the ball. I learn slowly.
✨Have the Midas touch ▶️ to have the ability to be successful, especially the ability to make money easily. (From the name of a legendary king whose touch turned everything to gold.)
🔻Bob is a merchant banker and really has the Midas touch.
🔻The poverty stricken boy turned out to have the Midas touch and was a millionaire by the time he was twenty-
five.
✨Have what it takes ▶️ to have the courage or stamina (to do something).
🔻Bill has what it takes. He can swim for miles.
🔻Tom won't succeed. He doesn't have what it takes.
✨To the best of one's ability ▶️ as well as one is able.
🔻I did the work to the best of my ability.
🔻You should always work to the best of your ability.
✨Up to something ▶️ capable of something; fit enough for something.
🔻John's not up to doing a job of that kind.
🔻Mary's mother's been ill and is not up to traveling yet.
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⭐️#ABSENCE:
✨Absent without leave AND AWOL
▶️ absent from a military unit without permission; absent from anything without permission. (AWOL is an abbreviation.
This is a serious offense in the military.)
🔻The soldier was taken away by the military police because he was absent without leave.
🔻John was AWOL from school and got into a lot of trouble with his parents.
✨Away from one's desk
▶️ not available for a telephone conversation; not available to be seen. (Sometimes said by the person who answers a telephone in an office. It means that the person whom the caller wants is not immediately available due to personal or business reasons.)
🔻I'm sorry, but Ann is away from her desk just now. Can you come back later?
🔻Tom is away from his desk, but if you leave your number, he will call you right back.
✨Conspicuous by one's absence
▶️ to have one's absence (from an event) noticed.
🔻We missed you last night.You were conspicuous by your absence.
🔻How could the bride's father miss the wedding? He was certainly conspicuous by his absence.
✨Cut class
▶️ to skip going to class. (#Informal.)
🔻If Mary keeps cutting classes, she'll fail the course.
🔻I can’t cut that class. I've missed too many already.
✨Go AWOL
▶️ to become absent without leave.
🔻Private Smith went AWOL last Wednesday. Now he's in a military prison.
🔻Tom went AWOL once too often.
✨Long time no see.
▶️ not to have seen someone for a long time. (#Informal.)
🔻Hello, John. Long time no see.
🔻When John and Mary met on the street, they both said, "Long time no see."
✨Out of town
▶️ temporarily not in one's own town.
🔻I'll be out of town next week. I'm going to a conference.
🔻I take care of Mary's cat when she's out of town.
✨Play hooky
▶️ not to go to school or to some important meeting. (#Slang.)
🔻Why aren't you in school? Are you playing hooky?
🔻I don't have time for the sales meeting today, so I think I'll just play hooky.
✨So much for someone or something
▶️ that is the last of someone or something; there is no need to consider someone or something anymore.
🔻It just started raining. So much for our picnic this afternoon.
🔻So much for John. He just called in sick and can't come to work today.
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⭐️#ABSENCE:
✨Absent without leave AND AWOL
▶️ absent from a military unit without permission; absent from anything without permission. (AWOL is an abbreviation.
This is a serious offense in the military.)
🔻The soldier was taken away by the military police because he was absent without leave.
🔻John was AWOL from school and got into a lot of trouble with his parents.
✨Away from one's desk
▶️ not available for a telephone conversation; not available to be seen. (Sometimes said by the person who answers a telephone in an office. It means that the person whom the caller wants is not immediately available due to personal or business reasons.)
🔻I'm sorry, but Ann is away from her desk just now. Can you come back later?
🔻Tom is away from his desk, but if you leave your number, he will call you right back.
✨Conspicuous by one's absence
▶️ to have one's absence (from an event) noticed.
🔻We missed you last night.You were conspicuous by your absence.
🔻How could the bride's father miss the wedding? He was certainly conspicuous by his absence.
✨Cut class
▶️ to skip going to class. (#Informal.)
🔻If Mary keeps cutting classes, she'll fail the course.
🔻I can’t cut that class. I've missed too many already.
✨Go AWOL
▶️ to become absent without leave.
🔻Private Smith went AWOL last Wednesday. Now he's in a military prison.
🔻Tom went AWOL once too often.
✨Long time no see.
▶️ not to have seen someone for a long time. (#Informal.)
🔻Hello, John. Long time no see.
🔻When John and Mary met on the street, they both said, "Long time no see."
✨Out of town
▶️ temporarily not in one's own town.
🔻I'll be out of town next week. I'm going to a conference.
🔻I take care of Mary's cat when she's out of town.
✨Play hooky
▶️ not to go to school or to some important meeting. (#Slang.)
🔻Why aren't you in school? Are you playing hooky?
🔻I don't have time for the sales meeting today, so I think I'll just play hooky.
✨So much for someone or something
▶️ that is the last of someone or something; there is no need to consider someone or something anymore.
🔻It just started raining. So much for our picnic this afternoon.
🔻So much for John. He just called in sick and can't come to work today.
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⭐️#ABUNDANCE:
✨Alive with someone or something
▶️ covered with, filled with, or active with people or things.
🔻Look! Ants everywhere. The floor is alive with ants!
🔻When we got to the ballroom, the place was alive with dancing.
🔻The camp ground was alive with campers from all over the country.
✨And something to spare AND with something to spare
▶️ with extra left over; with more than is needed. (Something can be used literally.)
🔻I had as much flour as I needed with something to spare.
🔻Fred said he should have enough cash to last the week—with money to spare.
✨And then some
▶️ and even more; more than has been mentioned. (#Folksy.)
🔻John is going to have to run like a deer and then some to win this race.
🔻The cook put the amount of salt called for into the soup and then some.
✨Any number of someone or something
▶️ a large number; a sufficiently large number. (Used when the exact number is not important.)
🔻Any number of people can vouch for my honesty.
🔻I can give you any number of reasons why I should join the army.
🔻I ate there any number of times and never became ill.
✨Dime a dozen
▶️ abundant; cheap and common.
🔻People who can write good books are not a dime a dozen.
🔻Romantic movies are a dime a dozen.
✨Drug on the market
▶️ on the market in great abundance; a glut on the market.
🔻Right now, small computers are a drug on the market.
🔻Ten years ago, small transistor radios were a drug on the market.
✨Get the works
▶️ to receive a lot of something. (#Slang. The works can be a lot of food, good treatment, bad treatment, etc.)
🔻BILL: Shall we order a snack or a big meal? JANE: I'm hungry. Let's get the works.
🔻But, Your Honor. I shouldn't get the works. I only drove too fast!
✨Give someone the works
▶️ to give someone the full amount or the full treatment. (#Slang.)
🔻The judge gave her the works for driving too fast.
🔻I want everything. Give me the works.
✨Go overboard
▶️ to do too much; to be extravagant.
🔻Look, Sally, let's have a nice party, but don't go overboard. It doesn't need to be fancy.
🔻Okay, you can buy a big comfortable car, but don't go overboard.
✨Go too far
▶️ to do more than is acceptable.
🔻I didn't mind at first, but now you've gone too far.
🔻If you go too far, I'll slap you.
✨Have something to spare
▶️ to have more than enough of something.
🔻Ask John for some firewood. He has firewood to spare.
🔻Do you have any candy to spare?
✨In short supply
▶️ scarce.
🔻Fresh vegetables are in short supply in the winter.
🔻Yellow cars are in short supply because everyone likes them and buys them.
🔻At this time of the year, fresh vegetables go into short supply.
✨Lousy with something
▶️ with something in abundance. (#Slang.)
🔻This place lousy with cops.
🔻Our picnic table was lousy with ants.
✨More someone or something than one can shake a stick at
▶️ a lot; too many to count. (#Folksy.)
🔻There were more snakes than you could shake a stick at.
🔻There are lots of flowers in the field—more than one can shake a stick at.
✨No end of something
▶️ lots of something. (#Informal.)
🔻It was a wonderful banquet. They had no end of good food.
🔻Tom is a real problem. He's no end of trouble.
✨Rolling in something
▶️ having large amounts of something, usually money. (#Informal.)
🔻That family is rolling in money.
🔻Jack doesn't need to earn money. He's rolling in it.
✨To one's heart's content
▶️ as much as one wants.
🔻John wanted a week's vacation so he could go to the lake and fish to his heart's content.
🔻I just sat there, eating chocolate to my heart's content.
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⭐️#ABUNDANCE:
✨Alive with someone or something
▶️ covered with, filled with, or active with people or things.
🔻Look! Ants everywhere. The floor is alive with ants!
🔻When we got to the ballroom, the place was alive with dancing.
🔻The camp ground was alive with campers from all over the country.
✨And something to spare AND with something to spare
▶️ with extra left over; with more than is needed. (Something can be used literally.)
🔻I had as much flour as I needed with something to spare.
🔻Fred said he should have enough cash to last the week—with money to spare.
✨And then some
▶️ and even more; more than has been mentioned. (#Folksy.)
🔻John is going to have to run like a deer and then some to win this race.
🔻The cook put the amount of salt called for into the soup and then some.
✨Any number of someone or something
▶️ a large number; a sufficiently large number. (Used when the exact number is not important.)
🔻Any number of people can vouch for my honesty.
🔻I can give you any number of reasons why I should join the army.
🔻I ate there any number of times and never became ill.
✨Dime a dozen
▶️ abundant; cheap and common.
🔻People who can write good books are not a dime a dozen.
🔻Romantic movies are a dime a dozen.
✨Drug on the market
▶️ on the market in great abundance; a glut on the market.
🔻Right now, small computers are a drug on the market.
🔻Ten years ago, small transistor radios were a drug on the market.
✨Get the works
▶️ to receive a lot of something. (#Slang. The works can be a lot of food, good treatment, bad treatment, etc.)
🔻BILL: Shall we order a snack or a big meal? JANE: I'm hungry. Let's get the works.
🔻But, Your Honor. I shouldn't get the works. I only drove too fast!
✨Give someone the works
▶️ to give someone the full amount or the full treatment. (#Slang.)
🔻The judge gave her the works for driving too fast.
🔻I want everything. Give me the works.
✨Go overboard
▶️ to do too much; to be extravagant.
🔻Look, Sally, let's have a nice party, but don't go overboard. It doesn't need to be fancy.
🔻Okay, you can buy a big comfortable car, but don't go overboard.
✨Go too far
▶️ to do more than is acceptable.
🔻I didn't mind at first, but now you've gone too far.
🔻If you go too far, I'll slap you.
✨Have something to spare
▶️ to have more than enough of something.
🔻Ask John for some firewood. He has firewood to spare.
🔻Do you have any candy to spare?
✨In short supply
▶️ scarce.
🔻Fresh vegetables are in short supply in the winter.
🔻Yellow cars are in short supply because everyone likes them and buys them.
🔻At this time of the year, fresh vegetables go into short supply.
✨Lousy with something
▶️ with something in abundance. (#Slang.)
🔻This place lousy with cops.
🔻Our picnic table was lousy with ants.
✨More someone or something than one can shake a stick at
▶️ a lot; too many to count. (#Folksy.)
🔻There were more snakes than you could shake a stick at.
🔻There are lots of flowers in the field—more than one can shake a stick at.
✨No end of something
▶️ lots of something. (#Informal.)
🔻It was a wonderful banquet. They had no end of good food.
🔻Tom is a real problem. He's no end of trouble.
✨Rolling in something
▶️ having large amounts of something, usually money. (#Informal.)
🔻That family is rolling in money.
🔻Jack doesn't need to earn money. He's rolling in it.
✨To one's heart's content
▶️ as much as one wants.
🔻John wanted a week's vacation so he could go to the lake and fish to his heart's content.
🔻I just sat there, eating chocolate to my heart's content.
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🤦🏻♀️ FACEPALM (v,n)
🔹 Seth facepalmed. “Ian, I can't believe you just did that.” (v)
🔹She always does a facepalm when her mother starts asking about her grades. (n)
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🔹 Seth facepalmed. “Ian, I can't believe you just did that.” (v)
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⭐️#ACCEPTANCE:
✨Eat one's words
▶️ to have to take back one's statements; to confess that one's predictions were wrong.
🔻You shouldn't say that to me. I'll make you eat your words.
🔻John was wrong about the election and had to eat his words.
✨Face the music
▶️ to receive punishment; to accept the unpleasant results of one's actions.
🔻Mary broke a dining-room window and had to face the music when her father got home.
🔻After failing a math test, Tom had to go home and face the music.
✨Feel at home
▶️ to feel as if one belongs; to feel as if one were in one's home; to feel accepted.
🔻I liked my dormitory room. I really felt at home there.
🔻We will do whatever we can to make you feel at home.
✨Go over big with someone
▶️ to be very much appreciated by someone.
🔻Your jokes did not exactly go over big with my parents.
🔻We hope that the musical will go over big with the audience.
✨Hold with something
▶️ to accept or agree with something. (#Folksy. Usually in the negative.)
🔻My father doesn't hold with fancy clothes.
🔻I don't hold with too many X rays.
✨Like it or lump it
▶️ either accept it or drop dead. (#Slang and fairly rude. Fixed order.)
🔻I don't care whether you care for my attitude or not. You can just like it or lump it.
🔻This is all thefood you get. Like it or lump it!
✨Resign oneself to something
▶️ to accept something reluctantly.
🔻I finally resigned myself to going to Mexico even though I didn't want to.
🔻Mary resigned herself to her fate.
✨Settle for something
▶️ to agree to accept something (even though something else would be better).
🔻We wanted are done, but settled for a blue one.
🔻Ask your grocer for Wilson's canned corn—the best corn in cans. Don't settle for less.
✨Take one's medicine
▶️ to accept the punishment or the bad fortune that one deserves.
🔻I know I did wrong, and I know I have to take my medicine.
🔻Billy knew he was going to get spanked, and he didn't want to take his medicine.
✨Take something at face value
▶️ to accept something exactly the way it appears to be.
🔻I don't know whether I can take her story at face value, but I will assume that she is not lying.
🔻The committee took the report at face value and approved the suggested changes.
✨Take something in stride
▶️ to accept something as natural or expected.
🔻The argument surprised him, but he took it in stride.
🔻It was a very rude remark, but Mary took it in stride.
✨Take something lying down
▶️ to endure something unpleasant without fighting back.
🔻He insulted me publicly. You don't expect me to take that lying down, do you?
🔻I'm not the kind of person who'll take something like that lying down.
✨Take the bitter with the sweet
▶️ to accept the bad things along with the good things.
🔻We all have disappointments. You have to learn to take the bitter with the sweet.
🔻There are good days and bad days, but every day you take the bitter with the sweet. That's life.
✨Turn thumbs up (on someone or something)
▶️ to accept someone or something; to approve someone or something.
🔻The board of directors turned thumbs up on my proposal and voted to fund the project.
🔻The committee turned thumbs up on Carl as the new manager.
🔻When the boss turned thumbs up, I knew everything was okay.
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⭐️#ACCEPTANCE:
✨Eat one's words
▶️ to have to take back one's statements; to confess that one's predictions were wrong.
🔻You shouldn't say that to me. I'll make you eat your words.
🔻John was wrong about the election and had to eat his words.
✨Face the music
▶️ to receive punishment; to accept the unpleasant results of one's actions.
🔻Mary broke a dining-room window and had to face the music when her father got home.
🔻After failing a math test, Tom had to go home and face the music.
✨Feel at home
▶️ to feel as if one belongs; to feel as if one were in one's home; to feel accepted.
🔻I liked my dormitory room. I really felt at home there.
🔻We will do whatever we can to make you feel at home.
✨Go over big with someone
▶️ to be very much appreciated by someone.
🔻Your jokes did not exactly go over big with my parents.
🔻We hope that the musical will go over big with the audience.
✨Hold with something
▶️ to accept or agree with something. (#Folksy. Usually in the negative.)
🔻My father doesn't hold with fancy clothes.
🔻I don't hold with too many X rays.
✨Like it or lump it
▶️ either accept it or drop dead. (#Slang and fairly rude. Fixed order.)
🔻I don't care whether you care for my attitude or not. You can just like it or lump it.
🔻This is all thefood you get. Like it or lump it!
✨Resign oneself to something
▶️ to accept something reluctantly.
🔻I finally resigned myself to going to Mexico even though I didn't want to.
🔻Mary resigned herself to her fate.
✨Settle for something
▶️ to agree to accept something (even though something else would be better).
🔻We wanted are done, but settled for a blue one.
🔻Ask your grocer for Wilson's canned corn—the best corn in cans. Don't settle for less.
✨Take one's medicine
▶️ to accept the punishment or the bad fortune that one deserves.
🔻I know I did wrong, and I know I have to take my medicine.
🔻Billy knew he was going to get spanked, and he didn't want to take his medicine.
✨Take something at face value
▶️ to accept something exactly the way it appears to be.
🔻I don't know whether I can take her story at face value, but I will assume that she is not lying.
🔻The committee took the report at face value and approved the suggested changes.
✨Take something in stride
▶️ to accept something as natural or expected.
🔻The argument surprised him, but he took it in stride.
🔻It was a very rude remark, but Mary took it in stride.
✨Take something lying down
▶️ to endure something unpleasant without fighting back.
🔻He insulted me publicly. You don't expect me to take that lying down, do you?
🔻I'm not the kind of person who'll take something like that lying down.
✨Take the bitter with the sweet
▶️ to accept the bad things along with the good things.
🔻We all have disappointments. You have to learn to take the bitter with the sweet.
🔻There are good days and bad days, but every day you take the bitter with the sweet. That's life.
✨Turn thumbs up (on someone or something)
▶️ to accept someone or something; to approve someone or something.
🔻The board of directors turned thumbs up on my proposal and voted to fund the project.
🔻The committee turned thumbs up on Carl as the new manager.
🔻When the boss turned thumbs up, I knew everything was okay.
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✨Mother's boy, also mummy's boy or mama's boy
✨ابن أمه
= a man seen as excessively attached to his mother at an age at which he is expected to be independent (e.g. live on his own, be economically independent, be married or about to be married).
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✨ابن أمه
= a man seen as excessively attached to his mother at an age at which he is expected to be independent (e.g. live on his own, be economically independent, be married or about to be married).
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⭐️#ACTIVITY
✨Be about something ▶️ to get busy doing something, especially doing one's business.
🔻It's eight o'clock, and it's time I was about my homework.
🔻Good-bye, Jane. I must be about my business.
✨Get into full swing AND get into high gear ▶️ to move into the peak of activity; to start moving fast or efficiently. (#Informal.)
🔻In the summer months, things
really get into full swing around here.
🔻We go skiing in the mountains each winter. Things get into high gear there in November.
✨Like a three-ring circus ▶️ chaotic; exciting and busy.
🔻Our household is like a three-ring circus on Monday mornings.
🔻This meeting is like a three-ring circus. Quiet down and listen!
✨Like crazy AND like mad ▶️ furiously; very much, fast, many, or actively.(#Slang.)
🔻People are coming in here like crazy. There isn't enough room for the mall.
🔻We sold ice cream like crazy. It was a very hot day.
🔻When she stubbed her toe, she started screaming like mad.
✨Make as if ▶️ to do something to act as if one were about to do something.
🔻The thief made as if to run away but changed his mind.
🔻Jane made as if to smack the child.
✨Rough-and-tumble ▶️ rough; overly active. (In reference to physical activity.)
🔻The game got sort of rough-and-tumble, so I stopped playing.
🔻Jane runs with a rough-and-tumble crowd that's always involved in some sort of sport.
✨Strike while the iron is hot ▶️ to do something at the best possible time; to do something when the time is ripe.
🔻He was in a good mood, so I asked for a loan of $200. I thought I'd better strike while the iron was hot.
🔻Please go to the bank and settle this matter now! They are willing to be reasonable. You've got to strike while the iron is hot.
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⭐️#ACTIVITY
✨Be about something ▶️ to get busy doing something, especially doing one's business.
🔻It's eight o'clock, and it's time I was about my homework.
🔻Good-bye, Jane. I must be about my business.
✨Get into full swing AND get into high gear ▶️ to move into the peak of activity; to start moving fast or efficiently. (#Informal.)
🔻In the summer months, things
really get into full swing around here.
🔻We go skiing in the mountains each winter. Things get into high gear there in November.
✨Like a three-ring circus ▶️ chaotic; exciting and busy.
🔻Our household is like a three-ring circus on Monday mornings.
🔻This meeting is like a three-ring circus. Quiet down and listen!
✨Like crazy AND like mad ▶️ furiously; very much, fast, many, or actively.(#Slang.)
🔻People are coming in here like crazy. There isn't enough room for the mall.
🔻We sold ice cream like crazy. It was a very hot day.
🔻When she stubbed her toe, she started screaming like mad.
✨Make as if ▶️ to do something to act as if one were about to do something.
🔻The thief made as if to run away but changed his mind.
🔻Jane made as if to smack the child.
✨Rough-and-tumble ▶️ rough; overly active. (In reference to physical activity.)
🔻The game got sort of rough-and-tumble, so I stopped playing.
🔻Jane runs with a rough-and-tumble crowd that's always involved in some sort of sport.
✨Strike while the iron is hot ▶️ to do something at the best possible time; to do something when the time is ripe.
🔻He was in a good mood, so I asked for a loan of $200. I thought I'd better strike while the iron was hot.
🔻Please go to the bank and settle this matter now! They are willing to be reasonable. You've got to strike while the iron is hot.
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