📒 Brevity is the soul of wit


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

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💠 ump 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

umpire


❕For example

🔺The umps have to make difficult decisions, and they usually get them right.

🔺"What's the matter with you, ump? Lost your seeing-eye dog, have ya?"


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📚change your tune


✍🏾Meaning
If you change your tune, you change your opinion about something or your attitude towards someone.

❗️For example

🔸At first Bill was against selling the rights to his book, but he changed his tune when he realized how much money he could make.

🔸Kelly was quite rude to me at first, but she changed her tune when someone mentioned how wealthy I was.

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📒invite around


📖Meaning
If you invite somebody around, you invite them to your home for a meal, or a party, or a game of cards, etc.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 I've invited Bob and Jenny around for dinner on Sunday night. Would you and Carol like to come as well?

💬 Why don't we invite some people around for lunch next week?

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📒 Riches have wings


📖Meaning
Money can disappear easily. Money is like a bird with wings: it can fly away if you are not careful.

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💠 honky 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

a derogatory term in black American slang for a white person


❕For example

🔺When we were visiting the Apollo Theater in Harlem in New York, a woman passing us on the street said, "What are you honkies doin' round here?"

🔺I have a lot of black American friends, and they all say they hate racist language, including anti-white words like "honky".


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📚fill somebody's shoes


✍🏾Meaning
If you can fill somebody's shoes, you can replace them and do what they do.

❗️For example

🔸Greg was a great captain for the team so it'll be difficult to find someone who can fill his shoes now that he's retiring.

🔸The general manager is training his son to fill his shoes when he passes the business on to him.

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📒kick out


📖Meaning
If somebody is kicked out of a place, they are forced to leave.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Ali was too afraid to tell his parents that he was gay because he knew his father would kick him out.

💬 If you get drunk and make trouble, you'll be kicked out of the bar.

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📒 Neither a borrower nor a lender be


📖Meaning
Do not borrow things. Do not lend things.

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💠 dirty 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

obscene, pornographic


❕For example

🔺Randy was very embarrassed when his mother found the dirty magazines he kept under his mattress.

🔺People used to get dirty movies and magazines from adult shops or from mail-order companies, but now everyone sees the same stuff online.


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📚a drop in the ocean


✍🏾Meaning
If an amount is a drop in the ocean, it's a very small portion of the amount that's needed.

❗️For example

🔸Our government's sending a thousand tons of food, but that's just a drop in the ocean compared to what's needed.

🔸I know twenty dollars is just a drop in the ocean, but if everyone gave that much it'd make a big difference.

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📒do in


📖Meaning
to cause someone to feel very tired or worn out

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 That walk up the mountain really did me in. I can hardly move!

💬 Paula looks like she's been done in by all that running. I guess she isn't used to it.

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📒 Money is the root of all evil


📖Meaning
According to this saying, all immorality and wickedness is caused by money. This saying is a misquotation, and the original version ("the love of money is the root of all evil") implies that all immorality and wickedness is caused by people loving money, not by money itself.

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💠 axe | ax (1) 🇺🇸


✍🏾Meaning

to dismiss someone from a job (v.) | dismissal from a job (n.)


❕For example

🔺Because of the economic downturn, many companies will have to axe a lot of their workers.

🔺Anyone who creates too many problems for the boss will get the ax.


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📚get to the bottom of


✍🏾Meaning
If you get to the bottom of something, you find out its real cause or the true story behind it.

❗️For example

🔸The police don't know who did the robbery yet, but they promised to get to the bottom of it.

🔸I'm not sure how a mistake like this could happen, but I'm determined to get to the bottom of it and make sure it never happens again.

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📒have out


📖Meaning
If you have something out, like a tooth or an organ, it's removed from your body.

🤓For example ⤵️

💬 Her dentist said she couldn't save the tooth, so she'll have to have it out.

💬 My son's having his appendix out later today.

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📒 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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