✨Over the top
🔻مُبالغ فيه/ زيادة عن اللزوم
= You can say something is over the top if you think it's too extreme or it's more than a situation needs or deserves.
🔸I know you love your daughter, Bill, but don't you think giving her a Ferrari for her birthday was a bit over the top?
🔸After he'd calmed down, Brad admitted that punching the photographer and smashing his camera was a little over the top.
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🔻مُبالغ فيه/ زيادة عن اللزوم
= You can say something is over the top if you think it's too extreme or it's more than a situation needs or deserves.
🔸I know you love your daughter, Bill, but don't you think giving her a Ferrari for her birthday was a bit over the top?
🔸After he'd calmed down, Brad admitted that punching the photographer and smashing his camera was a little over the top.
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🔹Prepositions with “SEE”
🔻See about:
= attend to; take steps to do or to bring about something.
(Not used often in the passive.)
➖I must see about getting that television set repaired.
✨Often followed simply by a noun, the verbal notion being understood from the situation or the circumstances.
➖Have you seen about the railway tickets ? (i.e. have you bought them ?)
🔻See into:
= The same meaning as look into, i.e. investigate, inquire into.
🔻See over:
= The same as look over, i.e. inspect (see over a house, a factory, etc.).
🔻See through:
1️⃣ Detect the trickery, deception, duplicity, etc., in a scheme, a proposal or a story.
➖Anyone but a fool could see through that story.
2️⃣ Detect the real character or motives of a person as distinct from those which he professes or displays to the world.
➖For all his pious pretentions, it did not take us long to see through him.
🔻See to:
1️⃣ Attend to.
➖There is something wrong with this washing-machine. I must get someone to see to it. (Or 'I must get it seen to’)
➖I'm busy at the moment. I'll get one of the assistants to see to you.
2️⃣ Attend to something in order to make sure that it is done or comes to pass.
➖You won't be disturbed by their rowdiness again; I’ll see to that.
⚠️Note also the expression see to it that, followed by a clause. The meaning is similar to that given above.
➖See to it that you are not late again.
➖I'll see to it that there is no repetition of this delay.
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🔻See about:
= attend to; take steps to do or to bring about something.
(Not used often in the passive.)
➖I must see about getting that television set repaired.
✨Often followed simply by a noun, the verbal notion being understood from the situation or the circumstances.
➖Have you seen about the railway tickets ? (i.e. have you bought them ?)
🔻See into:
= The same meaning as look into, i.e. investigate, inquire into.
🔻See over:
= The same as look over, i.e. inspect (see over a house, a factory, etc.).
🔻See through:
1️⃣ Detect the trickery, deception, duplicity, etc., in a scheme, a proposal or a story.
➖Anyone but a fool could see through that story.
2️⃣ Detect the real character or motives of a person as distinct from those which he professes or displays to the world.
➖For all his pious pretentions, it did not take us long to see through him.
🔻See to:
1️⃣ Attend to.
➖There is something wrong with this washing-machine. I must get someone to see to it. (Or 'I must get it seen to’)
➖I'm busy at the moment. I'll get one of the assistants to see to you.
2️⃣ Attend to something in order to make sure that it is done or comes to pass.
➖You won't be disturbed by their rowdiness again; I’ll see to that.
⚠️Note also the expression see to it that, followed by a clause. The meaning is similar to that given above.
➖See to it that you are not late again.
➖I'll see to it that there is no repetition of this delay.
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🚩by/through/out/from force of habit
= because you have always done a particular thing and it is difficult to change
🔹I get up at 6 o'clock every day out of force of habit.
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= because you have always done a particular thing and it is difficult to change
🔹I get up at 6 o'clock every day out of force of habit.
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🔻Ambivalent = unable to decide something because you have two different feelings.
🔻Ambiguous = unable to understand something because it has two or more different meanings.
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🔻Ambiguous = unable to understand something because it has two or more different meanings.
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🔻Force #verb [transitive] #Metaphor
Forcing someone to do something is like putting physical pressure on them, or pulling or pushing them. The following phrases convey this figure of speech:
💭They put pressure on him to go.
💭I was under a lot of pressure.
💭I felt very pressured.
💭She pushed me into agreeing.
💭He was hauled in by the police for questioning.
💭They squeezed a confession out of him.
💭The country was dragged into war.
💭They kept pressing me for an answer.
💭I didn’t want to do it, but they twisted my arm.
💭She managed to twist/ wrap me around her little finger.
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Forcing someone to do something is like putting physical pressure on them, or pulling or pushing them. The following phrases convey this figure of speech:
💭They put pressure on him to go.
💭I was under a lot of pressure.
💭I felt very pressured.
💭She pushed me into agreeing.
💭He was hauled in by the police for questioning.
💭They squeezed a confession out of him.
💭The country was dragged into war.
💭They kept pressing me for an answer.
💭I didn’t want to do it, but they twisted my arm.
💭She managed to twist/ wrap me around her little finger.
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✨A force of nature
(is one, not has one) means the person is a very strong personality or character - like a hurricane or a tsunami are also forces of nature, full of energy, unstoppable, unchallengeable, unforgettable. In short, a person to be reckoned with.
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(is one, not has one) means the person is a very strong personality or character - like a hurricane or a tsunami are also forces of nature, full of energy, unstoppable, unchallengeable, unforgettable. In short, a person to be reckoned with.
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✨It’s not your daddy’s/dad’s
= Very modern or updated; no longer what an older generation would expect or be used to.
🔹With every building now featuring wireless Internet and touch-screen monitors integrated into the desks in each classroom, this is certainly not your daddy's high school anymore.
🔻This can also use other family members in place of "father." "Mother", "Grampa", or "Grandma" are the most common. Also appears as "isn't your father's."
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= Very modern or updated; no longer what an older generation would expect or be used to.
🔹With every building now featuring wireless Internet and touch-screen monitors integrated into the desks in each classroom, this is certainly not your daddy's high school anymore.
🔻This can also use other family members in place of "father." "Mother", "Grampa", or "Grandma" are the most common. Also appears as "isn't your father's."
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🔻Remember!
✨That's mean = someone did or said something rude or harmful.
✨That means = you're defining a word, phase, or expression.
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✨That's mean = someone did or said something rude or harmful.
✨That means = you're defining a word, phase, or expression.
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🔰Sounds change (assimilation)3️⃣ Sometimes more than one feature of connected speech happens at the same time. Here, we’ll hear about ellision, when the sounds /t/ or /d/ occur between two consonant sounds, they will often disappear completely from the pronunciation.…
🔰Sounds change (assimilation)4️⃣
There is another common form of assimilation when both the last sound of the first word and the first sound of the following word change to a third sound.
✨Would you. Would you like some tea?
✨Did you. Did you see it?
✨Do you. Do you want to get a cuppa?
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There is another common form of assimilation when both the last sound of the first word and the first sound of the following word change to a third sound.
✨Would you. Would you like some tea?
✨Did you. Did you see it?
✨Do you. Do you want to get a cuppa?
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✨Dilly-dally = Lollygag = to waste/pass time doing unimportant things
🔻Stop lollygagging! Get back to your work, lazy slob.
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🔻Stop lollygagging! Get back to your work, lazy slob.
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🔻 YOU SOLD ME = you convinced me because you were persuasive 🤔
لقد اقنعتني!
➖Ok, you’ve sold me. I'll go to the match with you.
🔻YOU SOLD ME OUT = you snitched on me/ you let my secret out 😠
لقد وشيت بي/ كشفت سري/ فضحتني
➖I asked you to keep it to yourself! I can't believe you sold me out, I trusted you!
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لقد اقنعتني!
➖Ok, you’ve sold me. I'll go to the match with you.
🔻YOU SOLD ME OUT = you snitched on me/ you let my secret out 😠
لقد وشيت بي/ كشفت سري/ فضحتني
➖I asked you to keep it to yourself! I can't believe you sold me out, I trusted you!
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✨Schwa UK [ʃwɑː] US [ʃwɑ]
noun [countable]
[singular schwa; plural schwas] #linguistics
= a vowel sound used in unstressed syllables , for example the sound of ‘a’ in ‘above’. Its symbol is ə.
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noun [countable]
[singular schwa; plural schwas] #linguistics
= a vowel sound used in unstressed syllables , for example the sound of ‘a’ in ‘above’. Its symbol is ə.
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Statistics 🆚 Statistic
🔻1-Statistics
(also #informal stats) [plural]
= a collection of information shown in numbers
🔹Analysis of crime statistics showed high levels of violent crime within the area.
🔹Statistics show that far more people are able to ride a bicycle than can drive a car.
🔹These statistics are misleading.
🔘according to statistics
🔹According to official statistics, the disease killed over 500 people.
🔘statistics on something
🔹He should read some of the statistics on economic growth.
🔻2-Statistics
(also #informal stats) [uncountable]
= the science of collecting and analysing statistics
🔹There is a compulsory course in statistics.
🔻3-Statistic
(also #informal stat) [countable]
= a piece of information shown in numbers
🔹An important statistic is that 94 per cent of crime relates to property.
🔹As with every statistic, there are trends behind the numbers.
🔹I felt I was no longer being treated as a person but as a statistic.
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🔻1-Statistics
(also #informal stats) [plural]
= a collection of information shown in numbers
🔹Analysis of crime statistics showed high levels of violent crime within the area.
🔹Statistics show that far more people are able to ride a bicycle than can drive a car.
🔹These statistics are misleading.
🔘according to statistics
🔹According to official statistics, the disease killed over 500 people.
🔘statistics on something
🔹He should read some of the statistics on economic growth.
🔻2-Statistics
(also #informal stats) [uncountable]
= the science of collecting and analysing statistics
🔹There is a compulsory course in statistics.
🔻3-Statistic
(also #informal stat) [countable]
= a piece of information shown in numbers
🔹An important statistic is that 94 per cent of crime relates to property.
🔹As with every statistic, there are trends behind the numbers.
🔹I felt I was no longer being treated as a person but as a statistic.
✨By Prof. Omar Alamri
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🔻Be all go
✨مشغول جداً / مزدحم
= be (a situation where people are) very active or busy: #informal
➖It was all go in the office today.
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✨مشغول جداً / مزدحم
= be (a situation where people are) very active or busy: #informal
➖It was all go in the office today.
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