✨ Caught unawares
= To be surprised by someone or something.
🅰️: Oh man, I was totally caught unawares when your mother showed up here this morning.
🅱️: I figured as much when she told me that you answered the door in your robe and curlers!
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= To be surprised by someone or something.
🅰️: Oh man, I was totally caught unawares when your mother showed up here this morning.
🅱️: I figured as much when she told me that you answered the door in your robe and curlers!
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✨In the soup✨
🔸If you say that someone is in the soup, you mean they are in trouble.
💥She has a knack of landing herself right in the soup.
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🔸If you say that someone is in the soup, you mean they are in trouble.
💥She has a knack of landing herself right in the soup.
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🍃TAKE A JOKE
يتقبّل المزحة
= To have the capacity to remain calm or be amused in response to good-natured teasing.
✨I'm certainly able to take a joke, but what you said to me was downright mean.
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يتقبّل المزحة
= To have the capacity to remain calm or be amused in response to good-natured teasing.
✨I'm certainly able to take a joke, but what you said to me was downright mean.
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💢be cruel to be kind
= to do something to someone that will make them upset or unhappy in order to help them in another way in the future.
🔹I told her she's just not good enough to be a professional doctor - sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
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= to do something to someone that will make them upset or unhappy in order to help them in another way in the future.
🔹I told her she's just not good enough to be a professional doctor - sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
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💢a fat lot of good/use #informal
= no use or help at all
✨Example:
🅰️: ” I’ve brought an umbrella.”
🅱️: “ A (fat) lot of good that will do now that it’s stopped raining! “
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= no use or help at all
✨Example:
🅰️: ” I’ve brought an umbrella.”
🅱️: “ A (fat) lot of good that will do now that it’s stopped raining! “
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💢 Leave a bad taste in one's mouth
= make a bad impression; to cause an unpleasant memory
🌟The way the waitress treated us left a bad taste in my mouth and I never went back.
🌟The argument left a bad taste in my mouth, so after that I avoided talking politics.
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= make a bad impression; to cause an unpleasant memory
🌟The way the waitress treated us left a bad taste in my mouth and I never went back.
🌟The argument left a bad taste in my mouth, so after that I avoided talking politics.
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✂️CUT IT OUT!
= stop doing something bad
🔹That noise is really annoying. Cut it out!😤
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= stop doing something bad
🔹That noise is really annoying. Cut it out!😤
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🌟With respect to (something)
= referring to something, concerning something
🔹I do not know what the company will do with respect to the old computer system.💻
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= referring to something, concerning something
🔹I do not know what the company will do with respect to the old computer system.💻
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🚩💵 MAKE A FAST BUCK 💵
= to make money easily, usually in a dishonest way
🔹Dave thought he could make a fast buck selling stolen TVs, but the police caught him in the end.🚔
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= to make money easily, usually in a dishonest way
🔹Dave thought he could make a fast buck selling stolen TVs, but the police caught him in the end.🚔
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🍏The fruit(s) of something
ثمرة الشيء ( حصيلة أو خلاصة ) = النتائج الجيدة لأي نشاط أو موقف
= the good results of an activity or a situation
🔹Enjoy the fruits of your labours (= the rewards for your hard work).
استمتع بثمار عملك و جهدك.👍🏻👏🏻
🔹The book is the fruit of years of research.
الكتاب هو ثمرة سنوات من البحث.📗🥇
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ثمرة الشيء ( حصيلة أو خلاصة ) = النتائج الجيدة لأي نشاط أو موقف
= the good results of an activity or a situation
🔹Enjoy the fruits of your labours (= the rewards for your hard work).
استمتع بثمار عملك و جهدك.👍🏻👏🏻
🔹The book is the fruit of years of research.
الكتاب هو ثمرة سنوات من البحث.📗🥇
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🚩Wild horses couldn't drag (one) away (from something)
= One is determined or committed to keep doing something or remain somewhere.
🔹After spending so much money on the tickets to his concert, wild horses could drag me away!
🔹Wild horses couldn't drag Jim away from his work. He just gets too invested in it.
🔹Once Elaine starts playing a video game, wild horses can't drag her away from it.
🔹Jim was determined to remain fishing at the lake. Wild horses couldn't drag him away from it.
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= One is determined or committed to keep doing something or remain somewhere.
🔹After spending so much money on the tickets to his concert, wild horses could drag me away!
🔹Wild horses couldn't drag Jim away from his work. He just gets too invested in it.
🔹Once Elaine starts playing a video game, wild horses can't drag her away from it.
🔹Jim was determined to remain fishing at the lake. Wild horses couldn't drag him away from it.
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✨Come to pass
= to happen; to take place; to occur
🔹Our only hope now is that these dire predictions will not come to pass, but can be avoided somehow.
🔹When it finally came to pass, it almost felt like a letdown.
🔹And when do you think all these good things will come to pass?
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= to happen; to take place; to occur
🔹Our only hope now is that these dire predictions will not come to pass, but can be avoided somehow.
🔹When it finally came to pass, it almost felt like a letdown.
🔹And when do you think all these good things will come to pass?
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🔴Bring up the rear
= to be the last in a line or group
🔹Mother led the way, with the children bringing up the rear.
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= to be the last in a line or group
🔹Mother led the way, with the children bringing up the rear.
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⭐️Any port in a storm
= used for saying that you will accept any help or take any opportunity if you are in a bad situation
✨It’s not an ideal solution, but any port in a storm.
✨He hates his job, but he can't get another. Any port in a storm, you know.
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= used for saying that you will accept any help or take any opportunity if you are in a bad situation
✨It’s not an ideal solution, but any port in a storm.
✨He hates his job, but he can't get another. Any port in a storm, you know.
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🚩by/through/out/from force of habit
= because you have always done a particular thing and it is difficult to change
🔹I get up at 6 o'clock every day out of force of habit.
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= because you have always done a particular thing and it is difficult to change
🔹I get up at 6 o'clock every day out of force of habit.
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✨In a literal sense
✨بالمعنى الحرفي
=according to the actual or physical meaning of words
🔹I didn’t mean that in a literal sense.
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✨بالمعنى الحرفي
=according to the actual or physical meaning of words
🔹I didn’t mean that in a literal sense.
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✨Talk sense #spoken
✨تكلم بمنطقية/بواقعية
✨خليك منطقي/واقعي
= to say things that are reasonable or sensible – often used when you think someone has just said something silly
🔹Talk sense! There’s no way we can afford a new car!
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✨تكلم بمنطقية/بواقعية
✨خليك منطقي/واقعي
= to say things that are reasonable or sensible – often used when you think someone has just said something silly
🔹Talk sense! There’s no way we can afford a new car!
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✨Be/mean the world to (someone)
✨عزيز/قيِّم بالنسبة لشخص
✨يعني الكثير
✨بالعامية نقول يسوى الدنيا و ما فيها
1️⃣ To be ardently loved by or exceptionally important to someone.
🔻My little daughter is the world to me—I would do absolutely anything for her.
🔻Her job means the world to her.
2️⃣ To be something for which someone is deeply grateful or appreciative.
🔻Thank you so much for taking care of my kids when I was in the hospital. It really means the world to me!
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✨عزيز/قيِّم بالنسبة لشخص
✨يعني الكثير
✨بالعامية نقول يسوى الدنيا و ما فيها
1️⃣ To be ardently loved by or exceptionally important to someone.
🔻My little daughter is the world to me—I would do absolutely anything for her.
🔻Her job means the world to her.
2️⃣ To be something for which someone is deeply grateful or appreciative.
🔻Thank you so much for taking care of my kids when I was in the hospital. It really means the world to me!
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🔻Don't sweat it!
🔻لا تقلق/ لا تخاف
🔻لا تشيل هم
something that you say in order to tell someone not to worry..
means "don't worry about it", or sometimes "take it easy".
🔹Don't sweat it! We've got plenty of time to get there before the show starts.
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🔻لا تقلق/ لا تخاف
🔻لا تشيل هم
something that you say in order to tell someone not to worry..
means "don't worry about it", or sometimes "take it easy".
🔹Don't sweat it! We've got plenty of time to get there before the show starts.
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