✨EAT YOUR HEART OUT
= To feel great sadness.
🔹I feel just awful for Mary—she's been eating her heart out ever since she found out she was rejected by her top-choice school.
= To be very jealous.
In this usage, the phrase is often said as an imperative and sometimes mentions a famous person (when the speaker comically claims to be more talented than that person).
🔹Eat your heart out—I got tickets to the concert and you didn't!
🔹Look at him dance! Eat your heart out, John Travolta! (= he dances even better than John Travolta).
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= To feel great sadness.
🔹I feel just awful for Mary—she's been eating her heart out ever since she found out she was rejected by her top-choice school.
= To be very jealous.
In this usage, the phrase is often said as an imperative and sometimes mentions a famous person (when the speaker comically claims to be more talented than that person).
🔹Eat your heart out—I got tickets to the concert and you didn't!
🔹Look at him dance! Eat your heart out, John Travolta! (= he dances even better than John Travolta).
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⌚️To keep time
1️⃣ = In music, to keep rhythm or maintain tempo.
(في لغة الموسيقى) يبقى على الإيقاع
🔹The guys in the band can play—just not together. They almost never keep time.
2️⃣ = Literally, for a clock or watch to accurately track and indicate the time.
المعنى الحرفي: بالنسبة لساعة اليد أو الحائط أن تشير الى الوقت الصحيح
🔹My grandfather's old pocket watch is a bit tarnished, but it still keeps time perfectly!
3️⃣ = To monitor the clock in a sporting event or other contest.
يراقب الساعة في حدث رياضي أو مسابقة أخرى.
🔹It must be nerve-racking to keep time during a game that important. One mistake could affect the whole season!
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1️⃣ = In music, to keep rhythm or maintain tempo.
(في لغة الموسيقى) يبقى على الإيقاع
🔹The guys in the band can play—just not together. They almost never keep time.
2️⃣ = Literally, for a clock or watch to accurately track and indicate the time.
المعنى الحرفي: بالنسبة لساعة اليد أو الحائط أن تشير الى الوقت الصحيح
🔹My grandfather's old pocket watch is a bit tarnished, but it still keeps time perfectly!
3️⃣ = To monitor the clock in a sporting event or other contest.
يراقب الساعة في حدث رياضي أو مسابقة أخرى.
🔹It must be nerve-racking to keep time during a game that important. One mistake could affect the whole season!
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🔴Don’t You Dare #idiom
لا تجرؤ!
✨Meaning:
Saying “don’t you dare” is a way of telling someone not to do something, and if they do, you will be angry or annoyed at them.
✨Usage:
The idiom is often used in a humorous, half-serious way but can be used seriously. The intention depends on the context, facial expressions, and body language of the person using the expression.
✨Examples:
🔹“Don’t you dare track mud into this house,” said mom.(half-serious)
🔹“I think I’ll eat your lunch, it looks tasty, said Rick. “Don’t you dare touch my lunch,” said Vicky, laughing.(humorous)
🔹“Don’t you dare go to the press over this,” said Mr. Perry. “Not if you want to keep your job!”(serious)
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لا تجرؤ!
✨Meaning:
Saying “don’t you dare” is a way of telling someone not to do something, and if they do, you will be angry or annoyed at them.
✨Usage:
The idiom is often used in a humorous, half-serious way but can be used seriously. The intention depends on the context, facial expressions, and body language of the person using the expression.
✨Examples:
🔹“Don’t you dare track mud into this house,” said mom.(half-serious)
🔹“I think I’ll eat your lunch, it looks tasty, said Rick. “Don’t you dare touch my lunch,” said Vicky, laughing.(humorous)
🔹“Don’t you dare go to the press over this,” said Mr. Perry. “Not if you want to keep your job!”(serious)
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✨With tongue in cheek
يقول مازحاً
= If you say something tongue in cheek, you intend it to be understood as a joke, although you might appear to be serious
🔻He said that he was a huge fan of the president, although I suspect it was tongue in cheek.
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يقول مازحاً
= If you say something tongue in cheek, you intend it to be understood as a joke, although you might appear to be serious
🔻He said that he was a huge fan of the president, although I suspect it was tongue in cheek.
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🥊Roll with the punches
= to deal with problems or difficulties by doing whatever you need to do, rather than by trying only one method
🥊Losing my job was really tough, but I've just been trying to roll with the punches until I get back on my feet.
🥊Well, there’s nothing we can do to change things. We’ll just have to learn to roll with the punches.
🥊He has had to learn how to roll with the punches and seek out the positive in every problem.
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= to deal with problems or difficulties by doing whatever you need to do, rather than by trying only one method
🥊Losing my job was really tough, but I've just been trying to roll with the punches until I get back on my feet.
🥊Well, there’s nothing we can do to change things. We’ll just have to learn to roll with the punches.
🥊He has had to learn how to roll with the punches and seek out the positive in every problem.
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✨Scarce as hen's teeth 🐓
(Also, scarcer than hen's teeth.)
= Exceptionally rare
Since hens have no teeth, this term in effect says that something is so scarce as to be nonexistent.
🔹On a rainy night, taxis are as scarce as hen's teeth.
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(Also, scarcer than hen's teeth.)
= Exceptionally rare
Since hens have no teeth, this term in effect says that something is so scarce as to be nonexistent.
🔹On a rainy night, taxis are as scarce as hen's teeth.
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🏦You can take it to the bank
= there is no doubt about it
🔻If he makes a promise, you can take it to the bank.
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= there is no doubt about it
🔻If he makes a promise, you can take it to the bank.
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🏦The bank of mum and dad
= when parents lend or give their grown-up children money to help them pay for things they need or want but can’t afford
❗️The phrase: ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, may have originally been coined as a joke but nowadays this monetary notion is much more of a reality.
✨The cheapest way to get around waiting for your loan to arrive is to borrow from the Bank of Mum and Dad.
✨Some first-time buyers are lucky enough to be able to turn to the Bank of Mum and Dad.
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= when parents lend or give their grown-up children money to help them pay for things they need or want but can’t afford
❗️The phrase: ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, may have originally been coined as a joke but nowadays this monetary notion is much more of a reality.
✨The cheapest way to get around waiting for your loan to arrive is to borrow from the Bank of Mum and Dad.
✨Some first-time buyers are lucky enough to be able to turn to the Bank of Mum and Dad.
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🍁 Cannot stomach someone or something
= not to be able to tolerate someone or something.
➖I cannot stomach his silly remarks.
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= not to be able to tolerate someone or something.
➖I cannot stomach his silly remarks.
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🔻To ad-lib
🔻يرتجل
= To improvise all or part of a speech or another kind of performance; that is, to spontaneously say something without prior preparation:
✨ I felt that the actor forgot his text. Nevertheless he ad-libbed very well.
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🔻يرتجل
= To improvise all or part of a speech or another kind of performance; that is, to spontaneously say something without prior preparation:
✨ I felt that the actor forgot his text. Nevertheless he ad-libbed very well.
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✨Over the top
🔻مُبالغ فيه/ زيادة عن اللزوم
= You can say something is over the top if you think it's too extreme or it's more than a situation needs or deserves.
🔸I know you love your daughter, Bill, but don't you think giving her a Ferrari for her birthday was a bit over the top?
🔸After he'd calmed down, Brad admitted that punching the photographer and smashing his camera was a little over the top.
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🔻مُبالغ فيه/ زيادة عن اللزوم
= You can say something is over the top if you think it's too extreme or it's more than a situation needs or deserves.
🔸I know you love your daughter, Bill, but don't you think giving her a Ferrari for her birthday was a bit over the top?
🔸After he'd calmed down, Brad admitted that punching the photographer and smashing his camera was a little over the top.
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✨A force of nature
(is one, not has one) means the person is a very strong personality or character - like a hurricane or a tsunami are also forces of nature, full of energy, unstoppable, unchallengeable, unforgettable. In short, a person to be reckoned with.
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(is one, not has one) means the person is a very strong personality or character - like a hurricane or a tsunami are also forces of nature, full of energy, unstoppable, unchallengeable, unforgettable. In short, a person to be reckoned with.
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✨It’s not your daddy’s/dad’s
= Very modern or updated; no longer what an older generation would expect or be used to.
🔹With every building now featuring wireless Internet and touch-screen monitors integrated into the desks in each classroom, this is certainly not your daddy's high school anymore.
🔻This can also use other family members in place of "father." "Mother", "Grampa", or "Grandma" are the most common. Also appears as "isn't your father's."
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= Very modern or updated; no longer what an older generation would expect or be used to.
🔹With every building now featuring wireless Internet and touch-screen monitors integrated into the desks in each classroom, this is certainly not your daddy's high school anymore.
🔻This can also use other family members in place of "father." "Mother", "Grampa", or "Grandma" are the most common. Also appears as "isn't your father's."
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🔻Be all go
✨مشغول جداً / مزدحم
= be (a situation where people are) very active or busy: #informal
➖It was all go in the office today.
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✨مشغول جداً / مزدحم
= be (a situation where people are) very active or busy: #informal
➖It was all go in the office today.
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🔻If you are down in the dumps or in the dumps, you feel depressed.
🔻مكتئب
✨Try to be sources of support for each other when one of you is feeling down in the dumps.
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🔻مكتئب
✨Try to be sources of support for each other when one of you is feeling down in the dumps.
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🔻Give it a rest
#informal
🔻وقّف
🔻اسكت / ريّحنا أو نقّطنا بسكاتك
= said when you want someone to stop talking about or doing something that is annoying you:
✨Oh, give it a rest, can't you?
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#informal
🔻وقّف
🔻اسكت / ريّحنا أو نقّطنا بسكاتك
= said when you want someone to stop talking about or doing something that is annoying you:
✨Oh, give it a rest, can't you?
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✨Not up to scratch / not up to snuff
#Informal
= not adequate
🔻Sorry, your paper isn't up to scratch. Please do it over again.
🔻The performance was not up to snuff.
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#Informal
= not adequate
🔻Sorry, your paper isn't up to scratch. Please do it over again.
🔻The performance was not up to snuff.
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