English idiom - “leaps and bounds” 📈

Leaps and bounds is used to describe something that has improved or progressed quickly. It is normally preceded by the prepositions “by”, “in”, “on” or by the phrase “come on in”.

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English idiom - “clean up (one’s) act” 🧹

If someone cleans up their act, it means that they start behaving in a more responsible and acceptable way.
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English idiom - “preach to the choir” 🎶

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English idiom - “be (bang/right) on the money” 💵

This idiom means to be completely correct or exact.
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English idiom - “be taken aback” 😮

This idiom means to be shocked or surprised by something unexpected.

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English idiom - “with flying colours” 🎨

This idiom means to pass an exam or test very successfully.

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English idiom - “hats off to someone” 🎩

This idiom is used to give praise or credit to someone.

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English idiom - “see eye to eye” 👁️

This idiom means go agree with someone or have the same opinion as them. It is often used in the negative to show that two people do not agree with each other.

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📔 go out with the girls


📋Meaning
To go and socialize somewhere with a group of exclusively female friends.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I love my boyfriend and all, but sometimes, I just need to go out with the girls!
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📔 go to the mattresses


📋Meaning
To enter into or prepare for a lengthy war, battle, or conflict; to adopt a combative or warlike position.

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🗣While Republicans have shown some flexibility over other contentious issues, it looks as though they're ready to go to the mattresses over the issue of gun control.

🗣We'll go to the mattresses if that's what it takes to defend ourselves!
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📔 dead asleep


📋Meaning
In a deep, immovable sleep.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I was dead asleep after my 12-hour shift; I didn't even hear the neighbor's car alarm going off!
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📔 canary in a/the coal mine


📋Meaning
Something or someone who, due to sensitivity to his, her, or its surroundings, acts as an indicator and early warning of possible adverse conditions or danger. Refers to the former practice of taking caged canaries into coal mines. The birds would die if methane gas became present and thereby alert miners to the danger.

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🗣Wildlife in disaster movies assumes the role of the canary in the coal mine, fleeing the scene when catastrophe is imminent.

🗣Unaware that he had been given the test drug, John was used as a canary in the coal mine to see its effects on the human mind.
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📔 bystander effect


📋Meaning
A social psychological phenomenon in which the more people there are viewing a crisis or crime, the less likely they are to offer aid to the victim(s). Also known as bystander apathy.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Over 30 people saw the mugging take place, but due to the bystander effect, none of them intervened.
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📔 lap up


📋Meaning
To ingest something, usually a liquid, by licking. A noun or pronoun can be used between "lap" and "up."

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Those kittens must have been hungry—they've already lapped up all the milk in the saucer.
Someone visiting you 🏠 - Ways to knock on the door 🚪

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📔 cloud the issue


📋Meaning
To obfuscate or distract from the topic at hand by introducing irrelevant or misleading information.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Politicians are always clouding the issue during debates by pointing out their opponents' history in other issues.

🗣Don't cloud the issue with talk about your past achievements, stick to the question I'm asking you.

🗣His muddled explanation only served to cloud the issue further for his students.
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📔 with (one's) head held high


📋Meaning
Displaying pride and confidence, often (but not always) after something has gone wrong.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Even though I knew I blew the presentation, I walked out of the conference room with my head held high… and then cried in my car.

🗣After hearing that he had been named to the all-star team, Paul walked through the halls with his head held high.
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📔 brood over


📋Meaning
To worry anxiously or be despondent about something or someone, especially at great length and in isolation.

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🗣I know you're upset about failing your exam, but don't brood over it all weekend.

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📔 broken record


📋Meaning
A person or thing that repeats itself over and over again. Likened to vinyl records that when severely scratched (i.e., "broken") can loop over the same recorded segment endlessly.


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🗣I feel like a broken record having to tell you this each day, but please clean your room!
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📔 a bridge too far


📋Meaning
cliché An act or plan whose ambition overreaches its capability, resulting in or potentially leading to difficulty or failure. Taken from the 1974 book A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan, which details the Allies' disastrous attempts to capture German-controlled bridges in the Netherlands during World War II.


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🗣The multi-million-dollar purchase of the small startup proved a bridge too far for the social media company, as the added revenue couldn't make up for the cost in the end.

🗣Look, I'm happy to help you guys out, but I'm not willing be the primary investor in your invention—that's just a bridge too far.Apparently, signing an A-list player is just a bridge too far for this team! They'd rather wallow in their mediocrity, I guess.
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