📚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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📒look after


📖Meaning
to make sure something or someone has everything they need and is healthy

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 When I'm too old to look after myself, my children will look after me, I hope.

💬 Can you look after my bag while I go to the toilet?

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📒 A good man is hard to find


📖Meaning

This saying talks about the difficulties for women in finding a suitable male partner.

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💠 thick (2) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

full-figured without appearing overweight


❕For example

🔺That chick is thick, dude! She has meat on her bones in all the right places; her thighs, breasts, hips, and her booty.

🔺Jamie says some girls who clearly have a weight problem try to kid themselves by claiming they are thick, but not fat.


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📚wash your hands of something


✍🏾Meaning
If you wash your hands of something that you were involved in, you decide to stop being involved in it after losing your interest or belief in it.

❗️For example

🔸She washed her hands of the whole project after she found out that people had been stealing donated money.

🔸Jim washed his hands of politics long ago after realising how corrupt most politicians were.

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📒keep up (3)


📖Meaning
If somebody or something keeps you up, you cannot go to bed.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 The noise from my neighbour's party kept me up most of the night.

💬 The noise from my neighbour's party kept me up most of the night.

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📒 They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind


📖Meaning

A warning that we must expect to suffer serious consequences as the result of our own bad actions. We get back what we give out.
Origin: The idea of cause and effect is expressed by several religions or philosophies. This particular proverb is an allusion to The Bible (Hosea 8:7): "For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind..."

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💠 earworm 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a song that repeats annoyingly in one's head


❕For example

🔺I've got this damn earworm in my head and no matter how much I try I can't get the damn song to go away.

🔺The only way to get rid of an earworm is to hear another song and start thinking of that one instead.


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📚give the green light


✍🏾Meaning
If you give something the green light, you give permission for it to be done, or allow it to happen.

❗️For example

🔸The government has given the green light to our tree-planting project, so we can go ahead and start organizing things.

🔸As soon as our CEO gives the new product the green light, we'll start planning production.

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📒turn around


📖Meaning
to change something unsuccessful into something successful

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 What do you think the government should do to turn the economy around?

💬 If she wants to turn her life around she needs to stop taking drugs and drinking alcohol.

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📒 Facts are stubborn things


📖Meaning

We cannot avoid the truth, even when it is not what we want to hear or express.

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💠 kef | kif 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

plant material that's smoked or ingested for its mind-altering effects, such as cannabis, marijuana or hashish


❕For example

🔺While he was in Lebanon, Johanne smoked kef through a hookah with his Lebanese friends.

🔺Our history professor said that kif has been smoked in India and the Middle East for thousands of years.

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📚find your feet


✍🏾Meaning
If you're still finding your feet, you're still adjusting to a new place or a new situation.

❗️For example

🔸It takes a while to find your feet when you start a new job, but you'll soon figure out who's who and what's what.

🔸Gary's been studying here for three months and he still hasn't found his feet. Maybe he should try something else.

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📒take up (1)


📖Meaning
to fill an area of space or a period of time

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 We're selling the dining table because it takes up too much room in our new apartment.

💬 I don't have much spare time, and exercising takes most of that up anyway.

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📒 Waste not, want not


📖Meaning

If we do not waste things we will not be short of things. If we use our resources carefully, we shall never be in need.

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💠 footy 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

Australian Rules Football, Aussie Rules Football


❕For example

🔺I grew up in Melbourne in Australia, so when I was kid I was crazy about footy and about my favourite club, St. Kilda. And I still love footy today!

🔺Hey Mark! You wanna go to the footy on Saturday? Collingwood's playing St. Kilda at the M.C.G., so it should be a beauty!

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📚in a nutshell


✍🏾Meaning
You can say "in a nutshell" if you're about to describe something as briefly as possible, or you're going to sum something up.

❗️For example

🔸It's a very complex situation, but the problem is, in a nutshell, a lack of sales.

🔸The president's in trouble and the reason, in a nutshell, is that people no longer trust him.

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📒give up (1)


📖Meaning
If you give up, you stop trying to do something because it's too hard or because it can't be done.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I know it's hard to find a job these days, but don't give up. Keep trying and sooner or later you'll get one.

💬  I decided to fix my printer myself, but the problem was too serious so I gave up trying and took it to the repair shop.

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📒 Women will have the last word


📖Meaning

A man cannot win an argument with a woman. Women talk more than men. They can always add something more to what they are saying.

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