🔹Confusing sentences

I am elder than my brother ✔️
I am older than my brother✖️

🔹 للعبارة التالية:

"أنا اكبر من أخي"

الجواب الصحيح هو:

✨I am elder than my brother

✨الغرض من السؤال هو لتبيان بأن "elder" هي المستخدمة في حالة المقارنة العمرية بين أفراد العائلة الواحدة في حين نستخدم "older" في حالة كانت العبارة كــ:

أنا أكبر من صديقي

حيث ترجمتها:

✨I am older than my friend ✖️

حيث الصديق ليس ضمن افراد العائلة

🔹وايضا عندما تريد ان تبين للمقابل بانك الاكبر بين اخوتك, فبامكانك القول:

✨I am the eldest
أو
✨I am the eldest one
أو
✨I am the eldest one of them

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🔹 ماهو الفرق في المعنى( من خلال الترجمه) بين العبارتين:
✨Made of gold
✨Made from gold


✨Made of gold =

شيء مصنوع من الذهب بالكامل

✨Made from gold =

شيء مصنوع جزئيا من الذهب، اي ممكن ان يكون الذهب فيه مخلوط مع مادة اخرى

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🔹✨How to say:
✨كيف تقول

لاتاخذها بمحمل الجد .. يعني لاتزعل

✨Don't take it to heart


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🔹✨How to say:
✨كيف تقول

قال نكتة سامجة

🔹✨He told a corny joke


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🔹Butterfingers

✨Someone who is clumsy and often drops things or else fails to catch something.

🔹Examples:

✨I dropped another plate! I'm such a butterfingers today.

✨Coach, don't put that butterfingers Jimmy in the outfield!

✨I dropped another plate! I guess I just have butterfingers today.

✨I'm so butterfingered this morning—I keep dropping things

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🔹✨Expressions to Use In Speaking And Writing  

🔹✨Different ways to say you are fine

✨1- I'm fine thank you.🙂
مصطلح مشهور وهو انا بخير ، شكرا لك

✨2- I feel great / marvellous / fine. 👍
اقوي من الرد السابق ..
✨3- Couldn't be better.💪
في احسن حال وصحة
Impossible to be more healthy/well

✨4- Fit as a fiddle.💪
في صحة جيده للغايه
You feel very fit and healthy

✨5- Very well, thanks.😪

✨6- Okay.🤕

✨7- Alright.😑

✨8- Not bad.😶

🔹People sometimes say these phrases ( very well, thanks / alright / Not bad ) When they don't feel very well but they want to be polite


✨9- Much better.😅
بعد الشفاء من مرض
We use this phrase when we were sick before and now feel ( more )well

✨10- All the better for seeing you. 😄
للاصدقاء
🔹Friendliest phrase.
✨We are saying that when the other person has made us feel healthier and happier. ( Don't use it with strangers)

✨11- I'm satisfied
✨12 -I'm contented
✨13- As fresh as daisy
✨14- Alive and kicking
✨15- Cool as cucumber
✨16- Like a fish in the pool

✨17-Tip top= excellent, perfect

✨18- Over the top =

Walking on air = HAPPY
Have stars in his eyes = HAPPY
Be in seventh heaven = HAPPY
Be on cloud nine = HAPPY
Like a dog with two tails = HAPPY
Be over the moon. = HAPPY
Tickled pink = HAPPY
On top of the world = HAPPY
Happy as larry = HAPPY
Full of the joys of spring = HAPPY

Grin from ear to ear
To be a happy camper
Happy as a clam
Tickled pink
Head over heels
Sitting pretty
Make someone's day

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🔹Duh
يعني شي واضح وبديهي مايبي له كلام

✨Used to show that you think a person or statement is stupid, or that something is obvious

🔹✨Example:

"A lot of people care about money." "Well, duh."

كثير من الناس تهتم بالمال ..

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🔹✨Jog your memory

🔹Meaning: If something jogs your memory, it helps you to remember something.
تذكر
🖍🔺Examples:

✨The song really jogged my memory and I could clearly picture the scene thirty years ago when my friends and I first heard it.

✨Use the photos to remind me of what I've seen, to jog my memory.

✨Police are hoping to jog people's memory by showing them pictures of a car that was used in a robbery.

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🔹✨Let sleeping dogs lie

✨Meaning: Do not instigate trouble, Leave something alone if it might cause trouble.

لاتوقظ الفتنة..
🔹✨Examples:

🖍 Jill: Should I ask the boss if he's upset at my coming in late in the mornings?

🖍Jane: If he hasn't said anything about it, just let sleeping dogs lie.

🖍I thought I would ask Jill if she wanted me to pay her back right away, but then I decided to let sleeping dogs lie.

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🔹✨Siesta = a regular period of time or rest in the afternoon in some hot countries

(Brief sleep, an afternoon nap or rest, catnap, doze, drowsy, Snooze, forty wink, nap )

قيلوله بعد الظهر
🔹Examples:

✨Most of the shops were closed after lunch for a two-hour siesta.

✨The shops are closed during siesta.
He's taking a little siesta out there on the patio

✨I could use forty winks before I have to get to work.

✨I need forty winks before I get started again.

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🔹✨As Cool as a Cucumber” means to be very calm, with no worries. Someone who is not affected by pressure.
شخص هادئ ولاينزعج

She walked in as cool as a cucumber, as if nothing had happened


🔹Rob: “When is your job interview?”
✨Sue: “Tomorrow. I’m so nervous!”
🔹Rob: “Don’t worry. Just act as cool as a cucumber and tell them you’re the best person for the job. You’ll be fine!”

✨My sister is always as cool as a cucumber. She doesn't get upset..

✨We were not cool as a cucumber during the war. We were worried.

✨The doctor was cool as a cucumber when they brought 10 injured people to the hospital.
Jenni is cool as a cucumber. You can not get her upset.

✨The dogs never bark, My dogs are cool as a cucumber, expect when there is food.

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🔹✨Lisp

🔹Meaning: To pronounce the sibilants \s\ and \z\ imperfectly especially by turning them into \th\ and \th\
لثغة
🔹✨Example:

✨She lost one of her front teeth and speaks with a slight lisp

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🔹✨Go bananas
ساصاب بالجنون ، سافقد عقلي

🔹✨ Meaning:

1. [adjective] Very silly
2. (go bananas) [adjective] to become extremely angry or excited.

🔹✨Example:

✨You're going out in this weather? You must be bananas!

✨She'll go bananas when you tell her the news.

✨The kids are going to go bananas when we tell them about the trip.


✨If I’m late again my Dad’ll go bananas. 

 ✨The clock’s going bananas (= isn’t working correctly).

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🔹✨Under the weather

متوعك صحيا.. مريض ..اصبت با البرد

✨When someone is under the weather, it means that the person:

📍is slightly ill.

📍feels a little sick.

📍doesn’t feel well.

You can begin this English idiom with:
📌BE under the weather OR
📌FEEL under the weather.

✨Examples:

⭕️I feel a little under the weather so I don’t think I’ll go out tonight.

⭕️He didn’t go to work today as he was a little under the weather.

⭕️It is hard to get the job done when you are under the weather.

⭕️Mary is a little under the weather. I hope she feels better soon.

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🔹✨Bad Apple – a bad person

شخص سيء، مسبب المشاكل
✨Examples:

🖍There are some bad apples in my school.

🖍We have some bad apples in the government.

🖍Tammy is a bad apple. She is always in trouble.

🖍Every class has a bad apple.
Do you have a bad apple at work?

🖍The police have a few bad apples

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🔹✨Have a memory/mind like a sieve = An extremely bad, very poor memory
You forget things very easily.
ذاكره ضعيفه / سيئه
🔹Examples:

✨He has got a memory like a sieve

✨I need to start getting more sleep at night, because lately I've had a memory like a sieve.

✨John has a memory like a sieve—I had to leave him three separate reminders about the play tomorrow night.

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🔹✨Early Bird - someone that likes to wake up early in the morning; someone that arrives early; related to being early
الشخص الذي يستيقظ باكرا

🔹 Examples:

✨My sister is an early bird .

✨I am the first one up in the morning. I am an early bird .

✨I am the office's early bird. I am here 2 hours before everyone else..

✨The restaurant has a discount for early birds on the weekends.

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🔹✨Night Owl - a person that goes to sleep late
الشخص الذي يذهب للنوم متاخرا
🔹Examples:

✨My sister is a night owl.
I like to work the night shift, because I am a night owl.

✨We like to eat dinner late, because we are night owls.

✨Are you a night owl?

✨I like to go to sleep early. I am not a night owl.

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🔹✨Be as fresh as a daisy

To be full of energy and enthusiasm

🔹After a good night's sleep I'll be as fresh as a daisy. 😄

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