📔 banker's hours


📋Meaning
A limited work schedule (as banks were once known for having short work days and being closed on holidays and weekends).

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣You won't be able to reach her on a Saturday—she keeps banker's hours.
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📔 Sitting on the fence



📋Meaning
  a person's lack of decisiveness, neutrality or hesitance to choose between two sides in an argument or a competition, or inability to decide due to lack of courage. 



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “The councilman is afraid he'll lose votes if he takes sides on the zoning issue, but he can't sit on the fence forever.”
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📔 bad omen


📋Meaning
A sign, either real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣It was a bad omen when my girlfriend broke up with me the day before my final exams.

🗣All of the recent natural disasters are a bad omen for the future of the planet.
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📔 Storm in a teacup (UK idiom)



📋Meaning
   A small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 The whole controversy turned out to be a storm in a teacup.
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📔 backslider


📋Meaning
One who reverts or relapses into bad habits, unethical or immoral behavior, or criminal activity.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣We've tried to help her quit smoking, but she's a bit of a backslider.

🗣Jimmy's too much of a backslider to stay true to the practices of the church.
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📔 sitting duck



📋Meaning
a person or thing with no protection against an attack or other source of danger.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 Nancy knew she'd be a sitting duck when she raised the trap door. 

🗣The senator was a sitting duck because of his unpopular position on school reform. 
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📔 15 minutes of fame


📋Meaning
A brief period of celebrity or notoriety. The term was coined by artist Andy Warhol.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Jane had her 15 minutes of fame when she appeared on the nightly news broadcast.

🗣That viral video gave Sam his 15 minutes of fame.

🗣I've seen what celebrity does to people, so I'm really not interested in getting 15 minutes of fame.
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📔 go through the roof



📋Meaning
  to become very angry or upset


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 When they realized he'd lied to them, his parents went through the roof.
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📔 riffraff


📋Meaning
Undesirable, disreputable, or vulgar people, often used in a condescending manner.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣I wouldn't be seen in a place like that, there's a lot of riffraff that hang out around there.
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📔 a heart of gold



📋Meaning
  a kind and generous disposition


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 A woman with a heart of gold gives us lodging for the night.  
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📔 fresh legs


📋Meaning
In sports, one or more substitute players who have not yet participated in a given game or match, thus having more energy than the players they are replacing.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Their offense is completely wearing out our defense—it's time to get some fresh legs on the field!
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📔 Out of the woods



📋Meaning
  The situation is still difficult but it’s improved or gotten easier. The hardest part of something is over.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “The surgery went very well and he just needs to recover now, so he’s officially out of the woods.”
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📔 fox guarding the henhouse


📋Meaning
A person likely to exploit the information or resources that they have been charged to protect or control.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣My sister is going to put her ex-convict brother-in-law in charge of her business, and I'm worried he'll be like a fox guarding the henhouse.
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📔 Barking up the wrong tree



📋Meaning
  Doing something that won’t give you the results you want.



🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “If you think she’s going to lend you money, you’re barking up the wrong tree. She never lends anyone anything.”
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📔 a feast for the eyes


📋Meaning
An especially attractive, pleasing, or remarkable sight or visual experience.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣His newest film has such lush cinematography that it is truly a feast for the eyes.

🗣He emerged from the tailor in a brand new designer suit, and I thought he was a feast for the eyes.

🗣The botanical gardens in spring are a real feast for the eyes, so I think you'll have a great time.
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📔 Nip something in the bud



📋Meaning
  To stop a bad situation from becoming worse by taking action at an early stage of its development.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “When the kid shows the first signs of misbehaving, you should nip that bad behavior in the bud.”
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📔 cat's pajamas


📋Meaning
Something or someone highly enjoyable, desirable, or impressive, especially in a fancy or elaborate way. Primarily heard in US.

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Tom's new Cadillac is really the cat's pajamas!

🗣Boy, that singer last night was the cat's pajamas, wasn't she?
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📔 Between a rock and a hard place



📋Meaning
  In difficulty, faced with a choice between two unsatisfactory options.


🤔For example ⬇️

🗣 “I can understand why she couldn’t make up her mind about what to do. She’s really between a rock and a hard place.”
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📔 (someone) is endgame


📋Meaning
slang In fandom, the idea that a particular romantic couple (or potential romantic couple) is meant to be together (and, in the context of a fictional work, that one thinks should be in a relationship when the work ends). The term is usually used by fans who are very invested in the pairing. Often, a portmanteau of the characters' names precedes the verb, which is singular (despite alluding to multiple people).

🤔For example ⬇️

🗣Although Jackson and April on Grey's Anatomy had a rocky relationship over the years, Japril is still endgame for many fans.

🗣Klaine was always endgame to me, so I'm not surprised they ended up together on Glee.

🗣Really, Daenerys and Jon Snow were endgame for you? I guess I just didn't see it.
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