📒 Share and share alike


📖Meaning

Give everyone an equal portion.

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💠 fib 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a small, harmless lie (n.) | to tell a small, harmless lie (v.)


❕For example

🔺I can tell you're fibbing because you're trying not to smile!

🔺We told our youngest child a little fib about where our pet dog went when he died. She was too young to understand the truth.


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📚wide of the mark


✍🏾Meaning
If something is wide of the mark, it isn't true or accurate, or it misses the target.

❗️For example

🔸The manager expected sales to double this year, but his prediction was wide of the mark. They only increased by ten per cent.

🔸Ronaldo's first shot was wide of the mark, but his second one went right into the back of the net for a goal.

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📒stir up


📖Meaning
to cause trouble among people or to cause bad feelings to arise

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The company says environmentalists are stirring up trouble by telling people the factory will pollute their river.

💬 You'll stir a lot of bad feeling up if you say their son died of a drug overdose. They want people to think it was a heart attack.

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📒 The road to hell is paved with good intentions


📖Meaning

1) People who believe they are doing good can end up doing bad (the law of unintended consequences). 2) There is no value in simply planning to do good if you don't actually do it.

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💠 OD 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

to take an overdose of a drug


❕For example

🔺If someone OD's, call an ambulance immediately. After calling, give the person mouth-to-mouth resuscitation if they've stopped breathing.

🔺It's very easy to OD and die from taking a narcotic drug like heroin. This is because narcotics are such powerful drugs that taking a dose which is just a little bit stronger than usual can kill a person.


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📚verbal diarrhoea


✍🏾Meaning
If someone has verbal diarrhoea, they can't stop talking.

❗️For example

🔸Janice has a real bad case of verbal diarrhoea. It's like she's afraid of silence and has to keep talking to block it out.

🔸I don't know if you could say he's got verbal diarrhoea, but Alan sure does talk a lot.

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📒yearn for


📖Meaning
to want something very much

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Even though I left England a long time ago, I still yearn for the beauty of the English countryside.

💬 Paula is still getting over the breakup with her boyfriend. She's still yearning for the sound of his voice and the smell of his hair.

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📒 Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear


📖Meaning

1. Speaking about the Devil may invite him to come. 2. We often say "Talk of the devil!" (or "Speak of the devil!") when somebody that we have just been speaking about suddenly appears.

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💠 ecofreak 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a person with strong views on the importance of protecting the natural environment


❕For example

🔺Before becoming Minister for the Environment, Peter was a rock star and an ecofreak.

🔺All these ecofreaks came and lay down in front of the bulldozers to stop them from clearing the forest.


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📚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.

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📒get away with


📖Meaning
to do something illegal or immoral and not get caught or punished

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Janet got away with shoplifting clothes the first few times, but she soon got caught and now she's stuck with a police record for the rest of her life.

💬 Bobby nearly got away with the robbery, but he spent the money too quickly and local police who knew him got suspicious.

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📒 Keep your friends close and your enemies closer


📖Meaning

You'll be safer if you know more about your enemies than you know about your friends. Look after your enemies better than you look after your friends.

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💠 jock 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

an athlete, sportsman


❕For example

🔺Betty's new boyfriend is one of the jocks on the football team.

🔺In our high school, most of the guys are either jocks or geeks.


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📚chickens come home to roost


✍🏾Meaning
If chickens are coming home to roost, someone is suffering the unpleasant consequences of their bad actions in the past.

❗️For example

🔸Fred's in hospital with liver problems. I guess the chickens have come home to roost after all those years of heavy drinking.

🔸The chickens are coming home to roost for the executives who committed fraud in the nineties. They're being charged now even though they committed their crimes over ten years ago.

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📒hold down


📖Meaning
to stop something from rising by pressing down on it or putting a heavy object on it

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The vet's assistant held down our dog while the vet gave her the injection.

💬 I held the board down with my foot while I hammered it in place.

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📒 Poor men go to heaven as soon as rich


📖Meaning

God makes no distinction between people with money and people without money.

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💠 old bat 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

an unpleasant old woman


❕For example

🔺The old bat who lives downstairs called the cops when we were having a party.

🔺We used to think Mrs Jones was just another bad-tempered old bat, but she's actually a lovely lady when you get to know her.


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📚pick up the tab | pick up the bill


✍🏾Meaning
If you pick up the tab, or pick up the bill, you pay for yourself and your friends in a restaurant or a bar.

❗️For example

🔸When people go out to celebrate a birthday in Thailand, whoever's having the birthday picks up the tab.

🔸In general in Asia, the person with the highest status picks up the bill in a restaurant.

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