#Expressions

💥No great shakes (uncountable)

▪️(idiomatic) Something unexceptional, not noteworthy or special.

▪️Synonyms: nothing to write home about

⚡️You're welcome to stay here, but this hut ain't no great shakes for such as you.

#Expressions

💥Doom and gloom (uncountable)

▪️Something considered indicative of feelings of pessimism and despair.


▪️Antonyms: rainbows and unicorns, sunshine and rainbows.


⚡️The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.
⚡️His sister was all doom and gloom after she lost the part.

#Expressions

💥Fly the coop.

▪️ (idiomatic) Leave or escape.

💥Once she heard the teacher's voice, she flew the coop .

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#quiz
#Slang

▪️Choose the most likely slang:

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⚜THESAURUS⚜


⚜ kill

▪️murder
•to deliberately kill someone –
used when talking about this as a crime:
☆He was found guilty of murdering his
wife.
☆Watson was brutally murdered by robbers in his own
home.


▪️assassinate president | prime
minister | king | leader | politician | judge
•to deliberately kill an important
person:
☆The president was assassinated on 22 November, 1963 in Dallas.
☆The Israeli prime minister was assassinated by a Jewish law student.
☆There was an
attempt to assassinate King Hassan by shooting down the royal jet.
☆ They were involved in a plot to assassinate the Libyan leader.
☆A prominent politician was assassinated in Pakistan.
☆He was part of a plot to
assassinate Hitler.


▪️execute also put sb to
death {prisoner | criminal | murderer | killer}
•to kill someone as a punishment for a
crime:
☆85 prisoners were executed in the US in 2000.
☆ The gas chamber is used
to execute criminals in seven states.
☆ In Louisiana two
convicted murderers were executed in the electric chair.
☆ McVeigh, who killed 168
people in a bombing attack, was executed by lethal
injection.


▪️eliminate {opponent | rival}
•to kill someone in order to prevent them from
causing trouble:
☆The military government eliminated their political opponents.
☆In the 1930s Stalin eliminated his rivals inside the Communist Party.


▪️slay
•to kill someone or
something in a violent way.
Slay is an old-fashioned word which is used in old stories
and in news reports
☆The king was slain at the Battle of Hastings.
☆ St George slew the
dragon.
☆ The victims were slain in their beds.



⚜TO KILL A LARGE NUMBER OF  PEOPLE


▪️massacre
•to kill a large number of people in a violent way:
☆Hundreds of demonstrators were massacred in the city’s main square.
☆The soldiers massacred
men, women, and children.



▪️slaughter
•to kill animals for food, or to kill a large number of people in a cruel and violent way:
☆The pigs are slaughtered on the farm.
☆It is estimated that half a million people were slaughtered.
☆The army slaughtered
thousands of civilians in an effort to stop the revolt.
☆His enemies had all been
slaughtered.
☆The Poles were slaughtered in millions.


▪️exterminate
•to kill large  numbers of a particular group of people or animals, so that they no longer exist:
☆The Nazis exterminated six million Jews.
☆ They want to exterminate all the rats from the
building. |
☆ Some species of bird have almost been exterminated as a result of modern
farming methods.
☆ The Native Americans were nearly exterminated in the 19th
century.


▪️wipe out
•to kill all of a group of people, animals, or plants.
•Wipe out is more
informal than exterminate:
☆Whole villages were wiped out.
☆ It was not long before
the species was wiped out.



⚜TO KILL YOURSELF

▪️commit suicide
•to kill yourself:
☆He tried to
commit suicide after the death of his friend.

▪️take your own life
•to kill yourself:
☆Ian Curtis tragically took his own life in 1980, after recording the song ‘Love will tear us apart’.
☆ Some people believe that it is a sin to take your own life.



⚜ Take your own  life or commit suicide?
•Take your own life sounds rather formal, and shows a feeling of sympathy for the person who died.
• Commit suicide sounds more 
neutral. Take your own life is also often used in moral discussions.


#Collocations
#Thesuarus
#Fwytm

#Vocabulary

♨️ Redact

⚜ Meaning:- To revise or edit a manuscript into publishable form.
Redact can have a negative connotation, suggesting that edits are made against a writer’s probable wishes.

💠 Ex:- Julie was livid when she found how the editors had REDACTED her careful, polished prose.

#Vocabulary

♨️ Castigate

⚜ Meaning:- To inflict a severe punishment on; to chastise severely.

💠 Ex:- When she was caught stealing for the second time, Maya knew her mother would CASTIGATE her.

#Phrasal_verbs

💥Tinker a round /  tinker a'bout  (with sth)

⚜to make small changes to sth in order to repair or improve it, especially in a way that may not be helpful.


⚡️He’s outside tinkering
around with his bike.
⚡️They haven’t made any
real changes to the system—they’ve just been tinkering around a bit.
⚡️ The government should
stop tinkering with the education system.