💠 kickback 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a payment made, often secretly or illegally, to someone who has helped to arrange a deal or a job


❕For example

🔺Several corrupt politicians were arrested for getting kickbacks from companies that were given huge government contracts.

🔺We'll have to pay a $50,000 kickback to the school's principal if we want to get the job of building their new assembly hall.

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📚dressed (up) to the nines


✍🏾Meaning
If you are dressed to the nines, or dressed up to the nines, you are wearing very smart clothes for a special occasion.

❗️For example

🔸Have you seen Harry? He's dressed to the nines and he looks amazing.

🔸Everyone was dressed up to the nines for the Academy Awards, with the men in tuxedos and the women in evening gowns.

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📒 Give credit where credit is due


📖Meaning

    The implication is that even if we are reluctant to praise someone, we should do so if the praise is deserved.

Note: credit (noun) = public praise or acknowledgment | due (adj.) = merited; deserved


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📒dig up

📖Meaning
If you dig up something, you get it from under the ground by digging.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  The police dug up the murder victim's body and took it away for examination.

💬  My dog loves digging up bones that I bury in the garden for him.


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💠 airhead 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a silly, stupid person


❕For example

🔺Joel says only airheads watch the shopping channel.

🔺Just because I'm a blonde woman who likes shopping and going to the gym some people call me an airhead, and I'm not!

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📚an end in itself


✍🏾Meaning
If something is an end in itself, it's done for its own pleasure or benefit rather than for some other purpose like making money.

❗️For example

🔸Billy says playing music in a band is an end in itself for him, but I think he does it to meet girls.

🔸People used to think education was an end in itself, but these days kids study in order to make lots of money when they graduate.

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📒 Speech is silver, silence is golden


📖Meaning
Speaking is good but saying nothing is better. Discretion can be worth more than even eloquent words.

Note: speech (noun): the act of speaking | silver (noun): a greyish-white precious metal | gold (noun): a yellow precious metal (more valuable than silver) | This proverb is also found as: "Speech is silver but silence is golden."

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📒figure out (1)

📖Meaning
If you figure something out, you find the solution to a problem or the answer to a question.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  To complete the puzzle, study the clues and try to figure out the solution.

💬 He soon figured out what the problem with his computer was.


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💠 ripped (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

to have well-defined muscles


❕For example

🔺After I'd been working out in the gym for a year or so, people started saying, "You're gettin' ripped, dude."

🔺 We watched a show about prisons last night, and I swear every single guy in there was ripped.


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📚water under the bridge | water over the dam


✍🏾Meaning
You can say a problem or an experience is water under the bridge, or water over the dam, if it happened in the past and it no longer affects the present to a degree that is worth worrying about.

❗️For example

🔸 I wish people would stop talking about my problems with the law. It all happened a long time ago and it's water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned.


🔸Rhonda says her marriage to Mark is water over the dam and it's time to move on with her life.

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📒 When the going gets tough, the tough get going


📖Meaning

   When a situation is difficult or dangerous, strong people work harder to resolve the problem. This saying relies on a difficult play on words; it could be rephrased word-for-word as: "When the situation becomes hard, strong people start working."

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📒head off (1)


📖Meaning
to leave a place

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We'll have to head off early if we want to get there by midday.

💬 I'd better head off. It's getting late and I've got an early start in the morning.


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💠 yob | yobbo 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

an aggressive, impolite, crude person


❕For example

🔺Be careful if you go to a pub on Friday or Saturday night. The yobs will be out and lots of them will be looking for a fight.

🔺 Lots of yobbos travel to places like Spain and Greece and get drunk, behave badly, and damage the image of Britain and the British.


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📚let your hair down


✍🏾Meaning
If you let your hair down, you enjoy yourself by doing whatever you feel like doing and not worrying about what other people might think.

❗️For example

🔸It's hard to imagine Francine letting her hair down and having fun, but Helen said she's like another person when she's not at work. She's funny and lively and she knows how to have a good time.


🔸Come on, George! It's Saturday night so why don't you stop being so serious and sensible and let your hair down for a change?

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📒 All things are difficult before they are easy


📖Meaning

   The implication is that we should be patient with learning, and with learners. It takes time to learn to do things. What seems easy to us now may have been difficult at first.

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📒knock out (1)

📖Meaning
If you are knocked out, you are hit so hard that you lose consciousness.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬  Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round and won the fight.

💬  He slipped over in the bathroom and knocked himself out.


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💠 psycho 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

crazy, insane


❕For example

🔺This boxer went totally psycho after the referee said he'd lost the fight. He tried to punch the referee and then he was punching anyone who came near him.

🔺 Lots of people get crazy thoughts and fears after smoking marijuana. Anyone who gets these fears shouldn't use it, or it could make them go psycho for real.


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📚x-rated


✍🏾Meaning
If something is x-rated, it is classified as pornographic and therefore not suitable for young people.

❗️For example

🔸One of the first x-rated movies to get a general release was "Last Tango in Paris" with Marlon Brando.

🔸I checked the brower's history and saw that my teenage son had been looking at x-rated websites, as all healthy, normal boys do.

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📒Make hay while the sun shines


📖Meaning

    If we want to make hay, we need sunny weather, so when the sun comes we should take the opportunity to make hay. Thus the proverb suggests that we should make good use of any opportunity while it lasts.

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