✨Scarce as hen's teeth 🐓

(Also, scarcer than hen's teeth.)


= Exceptionally rare

Since hens have no teeth, this term in effect says that something is so scarce as to be nonexistent.


🔹On a rainy night, taxis are as scarce as hen's teeth.


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🏦You can take it to the bank

= there is no doubt about it


🔻If he makes a promise, you can take it to the bank.


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#️⃣#Distance /ˈdɪstəns/ BrE AmE #verb

= to act in a way that shows that you are not connected with someone or something, usually because you do not approve of them

🔘distance yourself from someone/something:

💥The company is trying to distance itself from remarks made by the former director.


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✨Common mistakes


🔹We went to London and enjoyed very much.❌

🔹We went to London and enjoyed our stay very much.✅

🔹We went to London and enjoyed ourselves very much.✅

✨The verb ENJOY requires an expressed object. If there is no object, you should use an appropriate emphatic pronoun.


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🏦The bank of mum and dad


= when parents lend or give their grown-up children money to help them pay for things they need or want but can’t afford

❗️The phrase: ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’, may have originally been coined as a joke but nowadays this monetary notion is much more of a reality.

✨The cheapest way to get around waiting for your loan to arrive is to borrow from the Bank of Mum and Dad.

✨Some first-time buyers are lucky enough to be able to turn to the Bank of Mum and Dad.


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The following sentence may be interpreted in two ways. Mention the two possible meanings.

He might have realized that you were pulling his leg.

1 It is possible that he realized.
2 H ought to have realized.

The following sentence may be interpreted in two ways. Mention the two possible meanings.

Will you call on him and tell him?

1 Is this what you intend to do?
2 Would you do this for me (please)?

The following sentence may be interpreted in two ways. Mention the two possible meanings.

She burned his last letter, in which he had proposed to her, so that no one could ever discover the truth.

1 So that . . . expresses her purpose in burning the letter.
2 So that . . . expresses the result of her burning the letter.