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🔷Cream of the crop


♦️Meaning: the best of a group, top-choice.

Example: This university only accepts the cream of the crop.





🔶Sustain


♦️Meaning: Continue

Example: No animals or plants can sustain life without water.





🔷Hold back


♦️Meaning: conceal, hide.

Example: He held back his feelings and acted as if everything was alright.



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🔷Cream of the crop


♦️Meaning: the best of a group, top-choice.

Example: This university only accepts the cream of the crop.





🔶Sustain


♦️Meaning: Continue

Example: No animals or plants can sustain life without water.





🔷Hold back


♦️Meaning: conceal, hide.

Example: He held back his feelings and acted as if everything was alright.



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🔻Idioms about “INSECTS🔻


🔸As
busy as a bee
very busy


🔹Knee-high to a grasshopper
very young or small


🔸Butterflies in your stomach
nervous or anxious about an upcoming situation


🔹Ants in your pants
extremely restless and impatient



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Please read the text below and rewrite it in simple words.


I thought the do at Coleen’s would be a good laugh, but actually it was a bit of a drag.


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🔸Off and on

▫️Meaning: occasionally.

We are not very good friends anymore. I see him off and on.




🔹Off base

▫️Meaning: inaccurate

If you think I paid one thousand dollars for this coat, you are way off base.




🔸Off color

▫️Meaning: in bad taste, rude, dirty.

He told an off-color joke at the party that embarrassed my wife.




🔹Off one’s rocker

▫️Meaning: crazy

He is off of his rocker if he thinks I’m going to help him decorate for the party.




🔸Off the hook

▫️Meaning: out of something, freed from an embarrassing situation.

I don’t want to have dinner with him. Let’s tell him that we will be out of town so that we will get off the hook.




🔹Off the record

▫️Meaning: privately, unofficially, not for public announcement.

I need to tell you about one of my accounts, but it needs to be off the record.




🔸Off the top of one’s head

▫️Meaning: from memory, spontaneously.

Off the top of my head, I think her last name begins with an ‘M’.



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🔷 Corner the market


♦️Meaning: If a company corners the market in a particular type of product, it is more successful than any other company at selling the product


Example: They've more or less cornered the fast-food market - they're in every big city in the world.


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🔷 Straight talk


♦️Meaning:
The term ‘straight talk’ is used to describe a talk or discussion that is fair, frank and honest.


Example: Alex is popular for his straight talk and engaging discussions with the guests.


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🔻Ways to Avoid Answering a Question🔻


🔸No comment.

🔹I’m not at liberty to say.
(= I don’t have permission to give the information)

🔸Wait and see.
(= you will discover the answer later)

🔹Let me get back to you.
(= I will give you the answer later)

🔸I’m sorry, that’s confidential.

🔹 I’m sorry, that’s personal.

🔸I’d rather not talk about it.

🔹It’s none of your business.

🔸 Mind your own business.

🔹 Why do you want to know?



♦️NB: Number 8 and 9 are rather rude and informal, telling the other person to stop inquiring about your life.



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🔻Private Information Expression🔻


🔸Leak
Give out private information to the public.


🔹Rumour
Unofficial and unconfirmed information that people are talking about


🔸Let (something) slip
Accidentally revealed information that should be secret or private


🔹Spill the beans
Accidentally or intentionally tell someone secret or private information.


🔸Let the cat out of the bag
Unintentionally tell someone secret or private information.



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🔻 ”OFF” IDIOMS 🔻


🔸Off and on

▫️Meaning: occasionally.

We are not very good friends anymore. I see him off and on.




🔹Off base

▫️Meaning: inaccurate

If you think I paid one thousand dollars for this coat, you are way off base.




🔸Off color

▫️Meaning: in bad taste, rude, dirty.

He told an off-color joke at the party that embarrassed my wife.




🔹Off one’s rocker

▫️Meaning: crazy

He is off of his rocker if he thinks I’m going to help him decorate for the party.




🔸Off the hook

▫️Meaning: out of something, freed from an embarrassing situation.

I don’t want to have dinner with him. Let’s tell him that we will be out of town so that we will get off the hook.




🔹Off the record

▫️Meaning: privately, unofficially, not for public announcement.

I need to tell you about one of my accounts, but it needs to be off the record.




🔸Off the top of one’s head

▫️Meaning: from memory, spontaneously.

Off the top of my head, I think her last name begins with an ‘M’.



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🔻Get the hang of 🔻


🔸To learn to handle with some skill, become good at, become proficient at, comprehend, understand.


Driving feels awkward when you are new to it, but it's easy once you get the hang of it.


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🔹lay out

spend or pay.


Will you lay out the money for the meal and I will pay you back tomorrow?





🔹learn the ropes

acquire special knowledge of a job.


Now that you have started your new position with the company, it will probably take you a few months to learn the ropes.


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🔎If something is plain sailing, it's very easy to do and there are no issues to overcome.


I answered the first few questions in the exam without any problem, and I knew it'd be plain sailing from then on.


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🔎If something is plain sailing, it's very easy to do and there are no issues to overcome.


I answered the first few questions in the exam without any problem, and I knew it'd be plain sailing from then on.


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🔎If something is plain sailing, it's very easy to do and there are no issues to overcome.


I answered the first few questions in the exam without any problem, and I knew it'd be plain sailing from then on.


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To put the cart before the horse: To put things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities; to put something inconsequential as more important than something more essential.


📝You should first send your resume to the company before having an interview. Don't put the cart before the horse.


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🔻Get the hang of 🔻


🔸To learn to handle with some skill, become good at, become proficient at, comprehend, understand.


Driving feels awkward when you are new to it, but it's easy once you get the hang of it.







🔻Gloss over🔻


🔹To try to hide; to cover up a mistake or a crime; to hush up or whitewash.


They glossed over the problem, hoping that the customers wouldn't notice.

She glossed over the details of her accident.



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🔷Pull something off


♦️Meaning: accomplish something remarkable.


He never thought he would be able to put on a show, but he pulled it off.



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🔷Cream of the crop


♦️Meaning: the best of a group, top-choice.

Example: This university only accepts the cream of the crop.





🔶Sustain


♦️Meaning: Continue

Example: No animals or plants can sustain life without water.





🔷Hold back


♦️Meaning: conceal, hide.

Example: He held back his feelings and acted as if everything was alright.



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