💢 You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

💢 You cannot make bricks without straw

💠 You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs—(saying)

One should be prepared to make some sacrifices for what one wants

🔰 Ex:- We had to let some employees go to keep the company alive — you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.

💠 You cannot make bricks without straw—(saying)

Nothing can be made or performed without the necessary means

🔰 Ex:- How do you expect me to finish the presentation with no data? You can’t make bricks without straw!

#Phrasal_verbs

💥Amount to sth

⚜ [not used in the progressive
tenses)

1》 to add up to sth; to result in a final
total of sth:
●The cost of the trip amounted to well over £500.
●The money I pay in tax amounts to about 40% of my salary.


2 》to be equal to or the
same as sth:

●What they did amounted to a breach of contract, It doesn’t matter who pays~it
amounts to the same thing in the end.
● It all amounts to a lot of hard work, cm come to sth



3》 if you say that sb/sth doesn’t amount to
much, you mean that he/she/it is not very
important:

●He’ll never amount to anything, ●The information we have doesn’t amount to much.

#Phrasal_verbs

💢 Wolf down sth or wolf sth down
{informal}

❄️ Meaning:- to eat something very quickly because you are very hungry

🕸 Ex:- I gave her a plate of soup and she wolfed it down.

#Phrasal_verbs

💢 Pick sb up on sth
{British}

❄️ Meaning:- to correct someone for having said or done something wrong or something that you disapprove of

🕸 Ex:- My Spanish teacher always picks me up on my pronunciation.

#Vocabulary

⚜ ALBEIT – a formal way to say "although" or "even though”.

●It is used to introduce a contrast or limitation to something just mentioned.

●You'll often see it in essays, journalism, and academic writing but not so much in casual conversation.

✨ Examples:

• The meal was satisfying, albeit a bit overpriced.
• He passed the exam, albeit by the skin of his teeth.
• It was a pleasant, albeit brief, encounter.
• The company is growing, albeit slowly.
• She accepted the job, albeit reluctantly.
• The film was entertaining, albeit a bit too long.
• It’s a good solution, albeit not a perfect one.

●Use it to sound polished and precise but is defo best saved for writing or formal speech.

●Note : "Albeit" is not used before a full sentence; just before a phrase or modifier.

✅ She looked calm, albeit tired.
❌ She looked calm, albeit she was tired.

#Vocabulary

💢 Engulf

To cover or surround something

🌀 Ex:- The disease is threatening to engulf the entire country.

#Phrasal_verbs

🔮 Magic away

Make something disappear

♣️ Ex:- I wish I could magic us away from this boring lesson.

#Expressions

🔘on the level


▪️(idiomatic) Honest(ly), sincere(ly), straightforward(ly), fair(ly).

🔸He looks like a used car salesman, but he's really on the level, so you can trust him.

#Expressions

💥on the brink

●(idiomatic) Very nearly; imminent; close.

⚜The old building seemed to be on the brink of collapse.

#Expressions

💥raring to do something (BrE)

● very eager to do something

⚜The children were raring to get outdoors.

💢 You can’t win

💢 You can’t win ’em all

♨️ You can’t win
(also: you just can’t win)

no matter how much you try, there is no way to succeed

🌀 Ex:- Even though we try to educate everyone we come in contact with, sometimes you
just can’t win.

♨️ You can’t win ’em all
note:- ’em = them

is used to say that it is not possible to succeed at everything one does

🌀 Ex:- You can’t win ’em all. If someone doesn’t respond to you or indicates lack of interest, just move on.

💠 Note: 💠

The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase

🌐 You can’t fight city hall

used to say that one is unable to overcome officialdom or bureaucracy

🔰 Ex:- When it comes to judicial review of local government abuses, the fox is too often left guarding the henhouse. That all adds up to the depressing adage “you can’t fight city hall.”

⚜THESAURUS⚜
Cure1 verb

▪️heal : to cure someone – used especially when someone cures people using special
religious powers, rather than using medicine. Also used when saying that a cream or
treatment makes a wound better.
▫️He claimed that he could heal the sick.
▫️This cream is good for healing minor cuts and bruises.


▪️make sb (feel) better: to make someone who is ill well again, especially when they have an illness that is not very serious:
▫️The pills did make me feel better.


▪️relieve/ease also alleviate (formal) : to reduce someone’s
pain or unpleasant feelings.
▫️Aspirin will help to relieve the symptoms of flu (=reduce
the effect of the things that you usually get when you have an illness, for example by
making a high temperature lower).
▪️ I can give you something to alleviate the pain.


#Fwytm
#Collocations
#Thesuarus

⚜THESAURUS⚜

cure 2 noun

▪️remedy : a way to treat a health problem, especially a small problem such as a cold, using plants or other natural methods:

▫️Rinsing with salt water
is a good home remedy for a sore throat.
▫️ The store sells herbal remedies.


▪️antidote : a
medicine that will stop the effects of a poison or dangerous drug.

▫️There is no known
antidote to a bite from this snake.
▫️ There is an antidote to rabies, but it can be
extremely painful.

🔅 You also use antidote about something that makes you feel less
unhappy or worried
▫️ Laughter is a good antidote to stress.
▫️ A cruise across the
Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter in England.


#Fwytm
#Collocations
#Thesuarus

#phrases with HOPE

#Vocabulary
Dicey

#Vocabulary

❄️ Promulgate {verb}

🕸 Meaning: to talk about an idea and make it widely known and understood; also, to officially state that a new law or rule is in effect

🍀 Examples:
☁️ 1- With that kind of authority, they felt compelled to take themselves seriously. They tend to try and promulgate concepts they have essentially made up.


☁️ 2- The federal and state governments, at their core, establish laws and promulgate rules.

🫧 Synonyms:- 🫧

Announce, proclaim, declare, broadcast, disseminate, circulate, issue, make public, notify, publicize, spread, propagate, decree, trumpet

Look, I think maybe we should cut him a little slack.

✴️Cut/give somebody some slack

💢Meaning: to allow someone to do something without criticizing them or making it more difficult for them.

🔰Examples:

■ Hey, cut me some slack, man. I'm only a few bucks short.
■ I know she made a mistake, but can you cut her some slack? She's going through a tough time.
■ I'm just learning how to do this, so I hope you can give me some slack if I don't get it right the first time.
■ I know he's not the most punctual employee, but I think we should cut him some slack considering his workload.

💢Synonyms:
1. Give someone a break
2. Be more lenient
3. Be more understanding
4. Let someone off the hook
5. Show some compassion


#Common_Phrases