📒keep at


📖Meaning
If you keep at something, you continue doing it.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  Your English has improved a lot, so the new course must be working. You should keep at it.

💬 I've been feeling so much better since I started exercising that I'm trying hard to keep at it this time.

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💠 scam 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a scheme to get money dishonestly


❕For example

🔺Poor old Rosie lost thousands of dollars in some sort of investment scam.

🔺If you get an email that says you've won some money, don't reply to it. It's just a scam.

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📒keep at


📖Meaning
If you keep at something, you continue doing it.

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💬  Your English has improved a lot, so the new course must be working. You should keep at it.

💬 I've been feeling so much better since I started exercising that I'm trying hard to keep at it this time.

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💠 scam 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a scheme to get money dishonestly


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📚the upper crust


✍🏾Meaning
If you are one of the upper crust, you are a member of society's highest class.

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🔸If Laura was really part of the upper crust, she wouldn't need to borrow money all the time, would she?

🔸Marge does a great imitation of an upper-crust "society queen". It's really funny, and her upper-crust accent is perfect.


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📒 Better the foot slip than the tongue


📖Meaning
It is better to take a bad step in walking than to say the wrong thing in talking. We can do a lot of damage when we say something by mistake. The elliptical nature of this saying may make it difficult to understand. The full version might be something like: "It is better that your foot should slip than that your tongue should slip."


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📚jump on the bandwagon


✍🏾Meaning
If someone jumps on the bandwagon, they join a movement or follow a fashion that has recently become popular.

❗️For example

🔸It seems that politicians all over the world are now jumping on the "war on terror" bandwagon.

🔸I remember when punk became popular, lots of long-haired hippies jumped on the bandwagon and cut their hair short and wore black clothes.

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📒 Brevity is the soul of wit


📖Meaning
The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.


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📒rub off


📖Meaning
If a quality someone has rubs off on other people, they start to show that quality as well.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  If Simon's enthusiasm rubs off on the other workers, they'll all start working harder.

💬 Alan's excitement rubbed off on the other kids, and soon they were all running around shouting.

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💠 upper 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a stimulant drug, a drug that stimulates the heart and the nervous system


❕For example

🔺Those pills the police found in the truck are probably uppers. Lots of truck drivers take uppers to keep them awake during long trips.

🔺Back in the sixties a lot of students took uppers like speed so they could study all night before an exam.

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📚make hay while the sun shines


✍🏾Meaning
If you make hay while the sun shines, you make good use of the chance to do something while it lasts.

❗️For example

🔸We've got a few days off work so lets make hay while the sun shines and do some landscaping around the back of the house.

🔸Jim works too much, but he reckons he's just making hay while the sun shines. He says he'll slow down once he's made his fortune.

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📒 Slow help is no help


📖Meaning
When people need help they usually need it immediately. If you delay in helping, it is like not helping at all.


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📒log in


📖Meaning
to do certain things, like typing in a username and password, in order to access an online application or a computer network

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  I couldn't log in because I'd forgotten my password.

💬 If you want to post a response, you'll have to log in to the web board first.

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📒rub off


📖Meaning
If a quality someone has rubs off on other people, they start to show that quality as well.

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💬  If Simon's enthusiasm rubs off on the other workers, they'll all start working harder.

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💠 upper 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a stimulant drug, a drug that stimulates the heart and the nervous system


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📚make hay while the sun shines


✍🏾Meaning
If you make hay while the sun shines, you make good use of the chance to do something while it lasts.

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📒 Slow help is no help


📖Meaning
When people need help they usually need it immediately. If you delay in helping, it is like not helping at all.



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📒log in


📖Meaning
to do certain things, like typing in a username and password, in order to access an online application or a computer network

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  I couldn't log in because I'd forgotten my password.

💬 If you want to post a response, you'll have to log in to the web board first.


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💠 emo 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a style of music and fashion that developed among American teens in the early 21st century


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🔺Emo kids love to wear tight black jeans, tight sweatshirts or T-shirts, and scarves, and they dye their hair black and grow long bangs to cover most of the face.

🔺My brother has decided he's an emo kid, so he's taken to moping around in silence while looking like a sulky teenage vampire.


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