📒 Many a true word is spoken in jest


📖Meaning
Something said as a joke may often contain wisdom and truth.

Note: jest (noun): a joke; something said for amusement or comedy


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💠 kook 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a strange or eccentric person

❕For example

🔺There's this kook in my apartment building with snake tattoos on his face and he keeps these giant pythons as pets.

🔺Why did Margaret marry a kook like that guy Jim? He thinks he's some sort of Indian holy man or something.

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📚a whale of a time


✍🏾Meaning
If you have a whale of a time, you have a great time and really enjoy yourself.

❗️For example

🔸I went to a karaoke club with my friends last night and we had a whale of a time. It was great!

🔸Janet said she had a whale of a time at the party. I wish I'd gone too now.

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📒come in (1)


📖Meaning
to enter a room or a building

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I knocked on the door, and then heard her shout, "Come in!"

💬 He came in and sat down.

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📒 Beware of a silent man and still water


📖Meaning
A large expanse of water that is still and does not move is often deep and dangerous. We should be careful of it. In the same way, we should be careful with a person who does not talk much.

Note: beware (verb): be cautious; be careful | still (adj.): not moving


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💠 pig (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a police officer

❕For example

🔺Dominic says the pigs always give him a hard time because he's a young black guy and he likes wearing good clothes and lots of jewellery. They think he's a drug dealer.

🔺If Frank finds out that Ian's been talking to the pigs, he'll beat the crap out of him.

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📚quaking in your boots


✍🏾Meaning
If you're quaking in your boots, you are very frightened.

❗️For example

🔸This big, ugly dog was growling at me and baring its teeth. I was quaking in my boots, I can tell you!

🔸Our sergeant was a scary guy. He could make a new army recruit quake in his boots just by looking at him.

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📒weigh in (1)


📖Meaning
to be weighed before participating in a sport like boxing or horse-racing

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The jockeys are weighing in for the first race right now.

💬 What time do you have to weigh in for the fight?

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📒 Brevity is the soul of wit


📖Meaning

The real art of speaking (especially when speaking humorously) is to use as few words as possible.

Note: brevity (noun): shortness of time; use of few but exact words | soul (noun): the spiritual part of something; the essence of something | wit (noun): lively, keen intelligence; ability to use words creatively and for humour

Origin: This proverb is based on the words of Polonius in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (1564-1616):

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief...


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💠 veggy | veggie (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a vegetable

❕For example

🔺The meal was OK but we would've liked more veggies with the meat.

🔺It's really important to eat lots of fruit and veggies.

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📚set your sights on


✍🏾Meaning
If you set your sights on something, or set your sights on doing something, it becomes the target of your ambition or the object of your attention.

❗️For example

🔸Stanley has set his sights on coaching Liverpool, so he'll start getting to know people who have influence in the club.

🔸Microsoft has set its sights on one of the biggest search engine companies, so I wouldn't be surprised if the company's shares go up.

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📒fall over


📖Meaning
If someone falls over, they fall to the ground.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 My little girl was running along when she fell over, so I picked her up and gave her a hug.

💬 Be careful when you're walking in the forest. You can get seriously hurt if you fall over.

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📒 Even the prayers of an ant reach to Heaven


📖Meaning
God hears all living beings.

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💠 smart-arse 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning
a person who's annoying because they try to show how clever and knowledgeable they are (n.) | having an annoying way of trying to seem clever (adj.)

❕For example

🔺Greg sounds like a bit of a smart-arse when he's in a discussion because he states his opinion as if it's the last word on a topic.

🔺We don't need some smart-arse ecology professor coming out here and telling us how to run our farms.

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📚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!

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📒rub out (2)


📖Meaning
to kill somebody

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The mafia will rub out anyone who talks to the police.

💬 Drug dealers rubbed him out because he'd cheated them.

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📒 All truths are not to be told


📖Meaning
Some truths are better left unspoken. It is not always necessary to repeat something even though it be true.

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💠 rubber 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a condom


❕For example

🔺It's really important to use a rubber whenever you have sex. It'll stop you from getting nasty diseases like AIDS and gonorrhea.

🔺Cindy says vending machines that sell rubbers should be in schools, universities, department stores and public toilets.

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📚up for grabs


✍🏾Meaning
If something is up for grabs, it's available for anyone who wants to try to get it.

❗️For example

🔸Do you remember when all the best website URLs were still up for grabs? Anyone could get one just by being the first person to claim it.

🔸There are some great prizes up for grabs in their latest competition.

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📒run up


📖Meaning
If you run up a bill or a debt, you get goods or services on the understanding that you'll pay for them later.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 How did they run up such a huge bill at the restaurant? Did they buy the place?

💬 She ran all these debts up while travelling in Europe, and now it'll take her years to pay them off.

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