⭕️mend your ways⭕️
☑️Meaning: If you mend your ways, you improve your behaviour and stop doing things that cause trouble.
For example:
✳️Terry had better mend his ways or Rosie will leave him forever.
✳️It took him a long time to mend his ways, but these days Jack is a good father and husband.
🎯miss the point🎯
☑️Meaning: If you miss the point of something you hear or read, you don't understand what it really means.
For example:
💥I think you missed the point, so let me explain what I meant.
💥If she thinks it's losing the money that bothers me then she's missing the point. It's being treated like a fool that bothers me.
⭕️more often than not⭕️
☑️Meaning: If something happens more often than not, it happens quite often, but not all the time.
For example:
💥If I listen to BBC 3's "Late Junction" online, more often than not I'll hear some great music that I've never heard before.
💥Bob loves browsing around second-hand bookstores, and more often than not he finds something great to read.
🔘more than meets the eye🔘
💢Meaning: You can say there's more to something than meets the eye if it's more complex, more important or more interesting than it seems at first.
For example:
✳️I'm sure there's more going on here than meets the eye. I don't think we've been told the full story.
✳️Mick might seem dull and boring when you meet him, but there's more to him than meets the eye, believe me! He's a really interesting guy.
✅much ado about nothing✅
☑️Meaning: If you say something is much ado about nothing, you think it's an overreaction to something that shouldn't have caused so much trouble.
For example:
✳️Some people make a big fuss about which table they get in a restaurant, but as far as I can see it's much ado about nothing as long as the food's the same.
✳️All this nonsense about status and "losing face" is much ado about nothing as far as I'm concerned.
🎯Origin: "Much Ado about Nothing" is the title of a well-known play by William Shakespeare, and as a result the phrase has survived into modern English in its original form.
📚off the record📚
☑️Meaning: If you say something "off the record", you don't want it in the public record, or reported in the media.
For example:
✳️The minister has refused to speak to reporters since something he said off the record was reported in a newspaper.
✳️Most politicians realise that just saying something is "off the record" isn't enough to ensure it won't be reported.
🎯Note: 1⃣. Opposite to "on the record", which means something is said on the understanding that it will be part of the public record, and can be reported in the media.
2⃣. If used to modify a noun or a noun phrase, hyphens must be added, as in "off-the-record comments".
🔘off the top of your head🔘
🔴INFORMAL
✅Meaning: If you give someone information off the top of your head, you do so from memory, without checking beforehand.
For example:
💥I can't tell you Maxine's phone number off the top of my head. I'll have to check.
💥I don't know for sure, but off the top of my head I'd say that renting a two-bedroom apartment would cost about a thousand dollars a week.
🔘backed into a corner🔘
☑️Meaning: If you're backed into a corner, you're in a difficult situation that will be hard to get out of.
For example:
💥When his business failed, Gerry felt he'd been backed into a corner and he didn't know what he could do.
💥Jimmy's drug addiction had backed him into a corner and his only way out was to go into rehab and kick the habit.
✅bear the brunt✅
☑️Meaning: If you bear the brunt of something, you suffer the worst of its impact or its effects.
For example:
✳️The driver bore the brunt of the crash because he was right at the front of the bus.
✳️The team's coach bore the brunt of the criticism because he'd selected the players who'd performed so badly.
✅beat around the bush | beat about the bush
☑️Meaning: If you beat around the bush, or beat about the bush, you don't say something directly, usually because you don't want to upset the person you're talking to.
For example:
💥I had trouble telling Pedro he'd lost his job. I started beating around the bush and talking about one door closing and another door opening.
💥Stop beating about the bush. Just tell me what's happened!
📕Run an errand
✅Run an errand It means to make a short trip to do a specific thing
🎯The boy will run an errand for his mother and then meet his friend.
🎯The man has to run an errand before going to work.
🎯The woman has several errands to run before the birthday party.
📕To bring someone up to speed📕
✅To bring someone up to speed it means to give someone training or information so that he or she can do a job well
🎯The manager brought everybody up to speed about the new equipment.
🎯When I am up to speed in my new job, I will not need any more training.
📕To swim against the tide📕
✅To swim against the tide it means to do the opposite of what most other people are doing.
🎯My friend always acts differently and likes to swim against the tide.
🎯The small company likes to swim against the tide and their products are very unique.
📕Run an errand📕
✅Run an errand it means to make a short trip to do a specific thing
🎯The boy will run an errand for his mother and then meet his friend.
🎯The man has to run an errand before going to work.
🎯The woman has several errands to run before the birthday party.
📕An educated guess📕
✅An educated guess it means a guess that is based on one's knowledge or facts
🎯The teacher asked the students to take an educated guess to find the correct answer.
🎯It is difficult to know how much the new stadium will cost but we can make an educated guess.
✅Throw good money after bad
Meaning: waste more money after already spending money on the same thing.
Examples :
📕I do not want to throw good money after bad so I will not pay more money to fix my car.
📕It is throwing good money after bad to spend more money on the new stadium.
🎯Proverb
✅Silence is golden
☑️ Meaning :sometimes it is better to say nothing than to speak
📕The man is wise and is careful when he speaks. He believes that silence ,is golden.
📕The company manager believes that silence is golden and he chooses what he says carefully.
🔘To swim against the tide
✅Meaning : to do the opposite of what most other people are doing
🌀My friend always acts differently and likes to swim against the tide.
🌀The small company likes to swim against the tide and their products are very unique.
🎯 Proverb 🎯
☑️Where there is smoke there is fire
🔘Meaning : if there is evidence of a problem then there probably is a problem.
🌀There is much gossip about the company and where there is smoke there is fire, so probably the gossip is true.
🎯Idiom🎯
☑️Throw good money after bad
🔘Meaning : waste more money after already spending money on the same thing.
🌀I do not want to throw good money after bad so I will not pay more money to fix my car.
🌀It is throwing good money after bad to spend more money on the new stadium.
🎯Idiom
☑️More to something than meets the eye
🔘Meaning: something is more complex/difficult/better than it appears.
🌀There is more to the problem than meets the eye.
🌀The manager gave a speech which was very short but there was more to the speech than meets the eye.
🔘Idiom
☑️No stranger to something.
Meaning: to have experience or knowledge about something.
🎯My aunt is no stranger to hard work.
🎯The new teacher is no stranger to the material in the new class.
🎯The new manager is no stranger to how to manage a company well.
🔘Idiom
☑️A long shot
Meaning : a risk that you take but a risk that is not likely to succeed
🎯Our team is strong but it is only a long shot that we will win the championship.
🎯It is a long shot that the student will enter the famous university but he wants to try.
🔘Idiom
☑️All told
Meaning: including everything or everyone
🎯All told, there are at least twelve people who are applying for the job.
🎯I phoned my friend about seven times all told, but he never answered each time.
🎯All told, there are six episodes in the new TV series.
☑️To stand a chance of doing something
Meaning : to have the possibility of doing something
🎯Our team stands a good chance of winning the championship this year.
🎯My friend probably does not stand a chance of getting the job that he applied for.
📕Medical Idiom
☑️Just what the doctor ordered.
Meaning : exactly what is needed or wanted by someone
🎯A short nap was just what the doctor ordered. Now, I feel great.
🎯A nice hot bath is just what the doctor ordered after a long day at work.
☑️To lose one's marbles
Meaning : to become crazy, to act in a strange and crazy way
🎯The man is beginning to lose his marbles. He always forgets things.
🎯The man has lost his marbles and does not make any sense at all.
🎯The lady is beginning to lose her marbles.
☑️To drag one's feet
Meaning : to act slowly or reluctantly because you do not want to do something
🎯My friend is dragging his feet about whether or not he wants to meet me this weekend.
🎯The child always drags his feet when he has to get ready for school.
☑️To grate on someone's nerves
Meaning : to annoy or bother or irritate someone
🎯The man's stupid comments grate on his friend's nerves.
🎯The woman's singing is beginning to grate on my nerves.
🎯The man's loud chewing sometimes grates on my nerves.
☑️Icing on the cake.
Meaning : something that makes a good situation or activity even better
🎯The game was fantastic and meeting the players was icing on the cake."
🎯I found a good job and the fact that I can work from home is icing on the cake.
☑️In one's blood
Meaning: to be a natural part of one's personality or character
🎯Everybody in the woman's family is good at mathematics. It is in their blood.
🎯My cousin has music in her blood. She is very good.
🎯The man has adventure in his blood.
📕As hungry as a bear
✅Meaning : very hungry
🎯I was as hungry as a bear when I arrived home from work.
🎯The child was as hungry as a bear when she returned home from school.
🎯I'm as hungry as a bear and I need to eat soon.
📕To pass with flying colors/colours
✅Meaning : to pass something easily and with a high score
🎯I passed the science test with flying colors.
🎯My friend passed his exam with flying colours.
🎯The interview was easy. I passed it with flying colours.
📕To put something behind you
☑️Meaning : to try and forget about something
🎯Hopefully, we will all be able to put the pandemic behind us soon.
🎯Our team lost the game but we need to put the loss behind us and practice for the next game.
📕To feast one's eyes on someone or something.
☑️Meaning :to look at someone or something with pleasure or enjoyment
🎯We stopped at the hill to feast our eyes on the beautiful scenery.
🎯We went to the bakery to feast our eyes on the beautiful cakes.