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📒 Nothing is certain but death and taxes


📖Meaning
This saying may be seen in three ways: 1) We cannot be 100% sure about anything (except dying and having to pay the taxman - in this case the latter idea being added for humour).

2) We cannot escape taxation (in this case the idea of death serving only to highlight the certainty of taxes).

3) We can be absolutely sure that we will die (in this case the idea of taxes being added for humour). The first interpretation seems to have been the original intent (see Origin below).


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📚wear your heart on your sleeve


✍🏾Meaning
If you wear your heart on your sleeve, you show your emotions openly and you don't try to hide your feelings.

❗️For example

🔸Ivan is one of those tennis players that spectators love to watch because they always wear their heart on their sleeve

🔸You'll never be a good card player if you wear your heart on your sleeve. Other players can tell if your cards are good or not by watching your reactions when you get them.

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💠 vino 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

wine


❕For example

🔺Let's get a bottle of vino on the way to the party.

🔺Jack doesn't feel too good this morning. Last night he got stuck into the vino again.

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📒notch up

📖Meaning
to achieve something like a win or a record

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Rafael Nadal notched up another win this week, so he's now won six matches in a row.

💬 Richard takes great pleasure in putting together big financial deals, and he's just notched another one up.


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📒 Nothing is impossible to a willing heart


📖Meaning
Someone who is eager, keen and determined can achieve anything.


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📚pass the buck


✍🏾Meaning
If you pass the buck, you shift the responsibility for something to someone else in order to take the pressure off yourself.

❗️For example

🔸Don't try to pass the buck by blaming your staff. It's your job to hire good people in the first place, and it's your responsibility to make sure they're doing a good job once you've hired them.

🔸The president is passing the buck by saying the problems were caused by the previous government.

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💠 kerfuffle 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a noisy dispute, a commotion


❕For example

🔺There was a kerfuffle at the club when the chairman decided to sack the manager. Lots of people were very angry.

🔺A few of the protesters got cuts and bruises in the kerfuffle when the police tried to arrest them.

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📒act up

📖Meaning
If a part of your body or a piece of equipment acts up, it doesn't work properly.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 My printer is acting up, so I'll have to get it fixed.

💬 I'll have to give the tennis a miss this week. My knee is acting up again.


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📒 If you can't beat 'em, join 'em


📖Meaning
If you cannot win against someone or something, it may be easier or better to join forces with them.


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📚jump out of your skin


✍🏾Meaning
You jump out of your skin when something suddenly shocks you and your whole body jumps.

❗️For example

🔸Luke was watching the clouds pass in front of the moon when I quietly snuck up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. He screamed and nearly jumped out of his skin!

🔸Ollie didn't know I was making some toast, and when it suddenly popped up just as he was walking past he jumped out of his skin. It was really funny!

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💠 E | ecstasy 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

an illegal amphetamine-like drug


❕For example

🔺Lots of people took E, or ecstasy, back in the eighties, before it was known to be dangerous.

🔺E is still used by a few reckless club-goers who are willing to risk damaging their brain in order to feel good for a couple of hours.

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📒back down

📖Meaning
to decide not to do something because of opposition, or because of pressure from authorities

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Thousands of people protested against the government's decision to allow logging in the forest, so the government had to back down.

💬 The workers didn't back down on their demands for higher wages even though the company threatened to sack them.


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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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📚do you the world of good


✍🏾Meaning
If something does you the world of good, it makes you feel a lot better.

❗️For example

🔸That was a wonderful massage. It did me the world of good.

🔸Why don't you go for a walk in the forest. It'll do you the world of good to get away from everything for a while.

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💠 high 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

intoxicated, under the influence of a mind-altering drug


❕For example

🔺Jamal reckons anyone who gets caught driving a car while they're high on drugs should be banned from driving for a few years.

🔺Do you think that girl was high on drugs?

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📒make of (1)

📖Meaning
to understand, or to make sense of, someone or something

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Our new neighbours are a bit strange. I'm not quite sure what to make of them.

💬 What did you make of Joe's story? Do you think it really happened like that, or do you think he was making it up?


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📒They also serve who only stand and wait


📖Meaning

We all have a place in this world and we all perform a function, regardless of our ability or disability. The word order of this sentence may make it more difficult to understand. In normal English it would be something like: "They (those people) who only stand and wait, also serve."
  
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📚make a mountain out of a molehill


✍🏾Meaning
If you make a mountain out of a molehill, you make a small problem seem to be a much bigger problem.

❗️For example

🔸You've just got a cold so stop making a mountain out of a molehill. You're not going to die from it!

🔸Come on, you only lost $10. It's not that much, so I think you might be making a mountain out of a molehill.

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💠 bastard 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

an unpleasant, despicable person


❕For example

🔺Gary can be a real selfish bastard sometimes.

🔺If he's such a bastard to you, Cindy, why don't you split up with him and find a nicer guy to go out with?

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